{"product_id":"9781910601358","title":"The Poetry of Janet Stewart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eE\u003c\/em\u003edited with an Introduction and Notes by Richard D. Jackson. A \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJ\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eanet Stewart was born in an Edinburgh village known as 'Water of Leith'. She was an only child and the merchant who was her father died when she was fourteen years old. Her literary abilites were developed by Dr Robert Anderson the well known scholar and biographer. In 1801, and using the pseudonym of 'Adeline', her poetry began to be published in the\u003cem\u003e Edinburgh Magazine, or Literay\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eMiscellany\u003c\/em\u003e of which he was the editor. More of her poetry was included in a \u003cem\u003ePoetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as in a number of other Specific Volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer most ambitious poem is a forty-nine stanza \u003cem\u003eOde\u003c\/em\u003e which was occasioned by her reading of the \u003cem\u003eReliques\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eof Ancient English Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e published by Dr Thomas Percy, Lord Bishop of Dromore. \u003cstrong\u003eWhen her \u003cem\u003eOde\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 1804, \u003c\/strong\u003eit was\u003cstrong\u003e greatly admired by James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, who sent her a very flirtatious letter.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHe said he had been 'greatly taken with the harmony of even your most trifling pieces' but now 'there is not a more beautiful poem in the English language' than her \u003cem\u003eOde\u003c\/em\u003e. 'I do and ever will look upon you as a miracle in nature'. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1821 Oliver \u0026amp; Boyd of Edinburgh published Janet Stewart's novel \u003cem\u003eSt A\u003c\/em\u003eu\u003cem\u003ebin; or, The Infidel\u003c\/em\u003e, written in the style of an early Gothic Romance. And in 1824 her thirteen Chapter 'juvenile story' called \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMiriam and Ellinor\u003c\/em\u003e 'By the author of St Aubin'\u003c\/strong\u003e was also published in Edinburgh. It is really a short adult novel that includes references to the behaviour of the time in the Higher Social Class; to the disguised names of men such as Lord Byron, Lord Melbourne; and to Iaac Nathan's\u003cem\u003e Hebrew Melodies\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInterestingly\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eElinor and Marianne\u003c\/em\u003e was the name that Jane Austen gave to an early version of her novel \u003cem\u003eSense and Sensibility\u003c\/em\u003e. When this novel \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ewas published by Thomas Egerton in 1811 it was said to be 'By a Lady', and \u003cem\u003eElinor and Marianne \u003c\/em\u003eare the names of the two older sisters in the published novel. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eJanet Stewart died unmarried at the age of 54 in the village of Water of Leith on 19 December 1835 and is buried in the Churchyard of St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ayton Publishing Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019453939952,"sku":"9781910601358","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781910601358_p0.jpg?v=1763627667","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781910601358","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}