Lady Anne Lindsay — a remark

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“The only proof of madness that the John Bulls find in me is my being contented with every thing as I find it.”

Defending contentment as a form of sanity against English expectations · Letter from the Cape of Good Hope, 1798

About Lady Anne Lindsay

Lady Anne Lindsay

8 December 1750–6 May 1825

Lady Anne Lindsay, later Lady Anne Barnard, was born on 8 December 1750 at Balcarres in Fife, Scotland, and died on 6 May 1825 in London. She is remembered above all as the author of “Auld Robin Gray,” one of the most affecting and durable songs in the Scottish literary tradition. Yet the ballad’s extraordinary…

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