LADY ELIZABETH WARDLAW (1677-1727)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V28,
Page 323
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
LADY ELIZABETH WARDLAW (1677-1727)
, reputed author of Hardyknute, second daughter of Sir Charles Halket, was born in April 1677
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She married in 1696 Sir See also: - HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
, Bart., of Pitreavie
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The ballad of Hardyknute, published in 1719 as an old poem, was supposed to have been discovered by her in a vault at Dunfermline, but no MS. was ever produced; and in the 1767 edition of Percy's Reliques the poem was ascribed to her
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The beautiful ballad of Sir Patrick Spens (F
.
J
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Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, ii
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17) has been also asserted to be her work, one of the supporters of the theory being Robert Chambers (Remarks on Scottish Ballads, 1859)
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The level of accomplishment in Hardyknute, however, gives no reason for supposing that Lady Wardlaw was capable of producing Sir Patrick Spens
.
See Norval Clyne, The Romantic Scottish Ballads and the Lady Wardlaw Heresy (1859), and J
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H
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Watkins, Early Scottish Ballads ( Glasgow, 1867)
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