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Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie

  

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Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie : Chronicles of Scotland

'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Spectator and Rambler. She could borrow books by Burns, Robert Fergusson and other poets from neighbours, and at age eight she found "to my great joy, on the loom of an intellectual weaver", Paradise Lost and Allan Ramsay's poems'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hamilton      Print: Book
  

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