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Date Posted: 07:49:23 12/31/02 Tue
Author: Anne
Subject: Re: Looking for ancestors and the works of Janet Hamilton
In reply to: Anne Hilton 's message, "Looking for ancestors and the works of Janet Hamilton" on 00:02:30 12/31/02 Tue

could this be her
Janet Hamilton

Poems of Purpose and Sketches in Prose of Scottish Peasant Life and Character in Auld Langsyne (1865)

Poems and Ballads (1873)

Poems, Essays, and Sketches (1880)

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[> [> Re: Looking for ancestors and the works of Janet Hamilton -- Bill Vevers, 04:28:58 11/07/03 Fri

>Janet Hamilton was born Janet Thomson in the village of Corshill, parish of Shotts, Lanarkshire on October 12th, 1795. She was a descendant of the Covenanter John Whitelaw on her mother's side. At 14 years of age she was married to John Hamilton, a young man who worked with her father in the shoe making trade. She was fifty years of age before she learned to write although she had taught herself to read when only young. Her move towards poetic composition di not start until she was ff years old. In 1863 she published Poems and Songs; in 1865 she published Poems and Sketches; three years later she published Poems and Ballads. She died on October 27th, 1873 by which time she was poor, old , and blind.


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