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Frances Dunlop

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In his last years she deserted him, and he sent her several letters without ever receiving any explanation. In his last written to her, 12 July 1796, he says that having written so often without obtaining an answer, he would not have written her again but for the fact that he would soon be "beyond
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in a friend's copy while recovering from a severe illness, she was so delighted with it that she immediately sent off a messenger to Mossgiel Farm (Burns's home), fifteen or sixteen miles distant, for half a dozen copies, and with a friendly invitation for Burns to call at
108:, by his wife Eleonora, daughter of Colonel Agnew of Lochryan. Her only brother died before her father, and on her father's death in 1760 she inherited the property. Previous to this, in 1747 at the age of seventeen, she had become the wife of Mr John Dunlop of 171:, Mrs. Dunlop refused to permit her letters to Burns to see the light, but agreed to give a letter of Burns for every one of hers returned. As Burns wrote several to her without obtaining an answer, these were not recovered. She died on 24 May 1815. 238: 541: 546: 1134: 556: 551: 117: 1053: 1047: 1178: 375: 1120: 480: 1183: 1096: 1203: 1193: 1068: 828: 535: 289: 1173: 1101: 619: 136:
Dunlop made the acquaintance of Burns in the winter of 1786, shortly after the publication of his first Kilmarnock volume. Having read the
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In 1747 Frances Dunlop married John Dunlop of Dunlop, Ayrshire. They had seven sons (including Lieut. Gen.
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that bourne whence no traveller returns". When Currie proposed to write the
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Dunlop was born on 16 April 1730. She descended from a brother of
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The Poetical Works of Janet Little, The Scotch Milkmaid
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Index

picture of a middle-aged Frances Dunlop
Scottish
Robert Burns
William Wallace
Sir Thomas Wallace
Craigie
Dunlop
Janet Little
The Poetical Works of Janet Little, The Scotch Milkmaid

Cottar's Saturday Night
Dunlop House
Auld Lang Syne
Life of Burns
James Dunlop of Dunlop
Francis Wallace Burns




Henderson 1895
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Dunlop, Frances Anne Walker
Stephen, Leslie
Dictionary of National Biography
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Robert Burns
Comin' Thro' the Rye

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