Robert Burns

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Standard Name: Burns, Robert

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Textual Production Carolina Oliphant Lady Nairne
It was very generally ascribed to Burns ; Carolina Nairne heard this ascription made in her presence, but she said she never answered.
qtd. in
McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol.
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, No. 2/3, 1 June–30 Nov. 2006, pp. 253-87.
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Textual Production Mary Bryan
It was dedicated to James Bedingfield , and the title page gave her name along with a quotation from Burns .
Textual Production Isabel Pagan
Not all IP 's writing went into her printed volume. She was believed to be the author of two songs which became popular: Crook and Plaid and (the most famous among her works) Ca' the...
Textual Production Mary Hays
The publisher was Knott . The title-page quotes Socrates and Burns . The work is dedicated to the Rev. John Disney . MH 's sister, Eliza or Elizabeth, contributed two Moral Essays.
Hays, Mary. Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous. T. Knott, 1793.
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Feminist Companion Archive.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Textual Production Madeleine Lucette Ryley
The play's title comes from well-known lines in Robert Burns 's poem To a Mouse about plans going haywire (as does John Steinbeck 's better-known novella Of Mice and Men, 1937).
Engle, Sherry D. New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920. Palgrave MacMilan, 2007.
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Textual Production Carolina Oliphant Lady Nairne
Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committee
McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol.
47
, No. 2/3, 1 June–30 Nov. 2006, pp. 253-87.
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The anthology came out in six volumes, printing the music along with the words of its songs; its editor was the greatest...
Textual Production Emily Gerard
At eleven or twelve EG began to scribble in secret—poetry of course; for what youthful writer at that stage of his or her existence would stoop to prose! Most of her poems were elegies on...
Textual Production Ethel Lilian Voynich
These poems, wrote Voynich, were immortal lyrics hidden away from Western Europe in a minor Slavonic idiom between Russian, Servian, and Polish. She called Shevenko the Robert Burns of his own region,
qtd. in
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
517 (7 December 1911): 509
Textual Production Anna Gordon
This best-known and most widely sung of all Scots songs dates from, at latest, the beginning of the eighteenth century. Many different writers turned their hand to new versions of it, including Burns , whose...
Textual Production E. M. Delafield
In 1937, Macmillan published selections in volume form under the same title, which is adapted from one of EMD 's favourite poems, Robert Burns 's To a Louse.
McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne, 1985.
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Textual Production Ellen Johnston
Her work garnered considerable response, including many poems of praise and compliment which were printed alongside her own in her later collection. These ranged from a verse proposal of marriage to a poetic tribute asserting...
Textual Production Sophie Veitch
With Duncan Moray, Farmer (a three-volume novel published both at London and at Paisley in Scotland in early 1890),
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
The early date comes from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
SV reverted to a Scottish setting...
Textual Production Joanna Baillie
JB had agreed to write for anthologist George Thomson (the successor to Burns in this work) about twenty original or adapted poems to go to Scottish, Irish, or Welsh tunes.
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25.
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Textual Production Jackie Kay
JK titled her new poetry collection Fiere: a Scots word for friend or companion, familiar to many from Burns 's Auld Lang Syne. She dedicated it to Ali Smith .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Kay, Jackie. Fiere. Pan Macmillan Picador, 2011.
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Textual Production Joanna Baillie
She thus made part of the Scottish ballad revival forwarded by individuals of several generations including Allan Ramsay , Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw , Jean Elliott , Alison Cockburn , her aunt Anne Hunter , Burns

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