Jean Elliot
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Jean Elliot (April 1727 – 29 March 1805), also known as Jane Elliot, was a Scottish poet, and the third daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland.[1]
Elliot wrote one of the most famous versions of The Flowers of the Forest, a song lamenting the disaster of Flodden Field in 1513 which begins "I've heard the lilting at our yowe-milking". Published in 1776, it is her only surviving work. The lyrics are set to a tune later collected into a melody by John Skene.
Another ballad with the same title beginning, "I've seen the smiling of fortune beguiling" had been written by Alicia Rutherford.[1]
She died at Monteviot House in Scotland.[2]
[edit] Notes
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Pitcock, Murray G. H.. Lawrence Goldman. ed. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004 ed.). Oxford University Press. http://oxforddnb.com/view/article/8665. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
- ^ "Jean Elliot". The Gazetteer for Scotland. http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst2542.html. Retrieved 2007-08-06.
[edit] External links
- "Women in History of Scots Descent: Song Writers", ElectricScotland.com
- "Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets Volume 1 by George Eyre-Todd", Google Books
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