New Light on the Burns-Dunlop Estrangement

The circumstances which caused Frances Anna Dunlop to cease corresponding with Robert Burns during the final year and a half of the latter's life have always been a puzzle to biographers. Even Wallace's publication, in 1898, of the Lochryan MSS shed little additional light on the affair, t...

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Published in:PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 1929-12, Vol.44 (4), p.1106-1115
Main Author: Ferguson, J. DeLancey
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Compliments
Diseases
Estrangement
Friendship
Poetry
Sympathy
Volunteerism
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Summary:The circumstances which caused Frances Anna Dunlop to cease corresponding with Robert Burns during the final year and a half of the latter's life have always been a puzzle to biographers. Even Wallace's publication, in 1898, of the Lochryan MSS shed little additional light on the affair, though it may be remarked in passing that Wallace—perhaps from timidity, perhaps from reluctance to express any but favorable opinions of the ancestress of the family by whom the manuscripts had been preserved—hardly made full use of such evidence as was available. Unfortunately some vital links were missing.
ISSN:0030-8129
1938-1530
DOI:10.2307/457713