Carolina Oliphant, later Lady Nairne, was born on 16 August 1766 at Gask House in Perthshire, into a family whose private memories were inseparable from one of Scotland’s most public historical wounds. She died on 26 October 1845, also at Gask, after a life of seventy-nine years in which she became one of the most accomplished and widely loved writers of Scottish song. For much of that life, however, the public did n…
“Life is a perpetual repetition of resignation and submission. I hope it will soon be over. It is a mercy to be spared great bodily pain, which many suffer. We should try to count our mercies.”
Neighbourhood:
Folk & Ballad Poets, Political Poets, Scottish Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea, London, and dead on 15 October 1838 at Cape Coast Castle on the Gold Coast, was one of the most celebrated, industrious, and misunderstood writers of the British Romantic period. Known to her immense contemporary readership by the initials “L.E.L.,” she became a literary phenomenon while still very young: a poet whose verses appeared week after week in maga…
“The imagination, which is the source of poetry, has in every country been the beginning as well as the ornament of civilization. It civilizes because it refines.”
Neighbourhood:
Love Poets, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
