Anne Bannerman | |
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![Title page, Anon. [Anne Bannerman], Tales of Superstition and Chivalry (Vernor and Hood, 1802)](view_image.php?q=Anne_Bannerman&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Bannerman-Tales.jpg) Title page, Anon. [Anne Bannerman], Tales of Superstition and Chivalry (Vernor and Hood, 1802) | |
| Born | 31 October 1765 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | 29 September 1829 Portobello, Edinburgh |
| Pen name | Augusta |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Period | Romantic |
| Relatives | Isobel (née Dick) Bannerman (mother); William Bannerman (father) |
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Anne Bannerman (31 October 1765 – 29 September 1829) was a Scottish poet. She was part of the Edinburgh literary circle which included John Leyden, Jessie Stewart, Thomas Campbell, and Robert Anderson. Her work was popular in her lifetime[1] and "remains significant for her Gothic ballads, as well as for her innovative sonnet series and her bold original odes."[2]
- ^ "Anne Bannerman." Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Accessed 8 Aug. 2022. (Orlando)
- ^ Adriana Craciun, "Bannerman, Anne (1765–1829)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: OUP, 2004).