Amelia Alderson Opie entered the world on a crisp November day in 1769, born into the bustling heart of Norwich, that ancient cathedral city pulsing with intellectual and radical energy. The only child of Dr. James Alderson, a respected physician known for his generosity to the poor and his progressive views, and his wife Amelia Briggs, she arrived on November 12, destined to weave her own vibrant thread into the tap…
“Oh! the ever-varying beauty of the ocean. I think I must live near it whenever I fix again.”
Neighbourhood:
Love Poets, Political Poets, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow
Isobel Pagan, known in her own district as Tibbie Pagan, was born about 1740, probably near Nithhead in the parish of New Cumnock, Ayrshire, and died at Muirkirk on 3 November 1821. Her dates alone suggest a life that crossed extraordinary changes in Scottish society: she was born before the great age of Robert Burns, lived through the American and French Revolutions, witnessed the expansion of mining and ironworking…
“Was not that great nonsense?”
Neighbourhood:
Folk & Ballad Poets, Romantic Poets, Scottish Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow
