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  1. Agnes Maclehose - Wikipedia

    • Agnes Maclehose (26 April 1758 – 23 October 1841 ), or Agnes Craig, known to her friends as Nancy and to Robert Burns followers as Clarinda, was a Scotswoman who had an unconsummated affair with Burns during 1787-88, on which he based the 1791 song "Ae Fond Kiss". The pseudonyms of her "Clarinda" to his "Sylvander" were adopted by th… See more

    Life and character

    Agnes was born in Glasgow, the third of four daughters of a prominent surgeon, Andrew Craig. Her mother was Christian … See more

    Jean Armour

    Jean Armour was well aware of her husband's fondness for Agnes and also knew that he corresponded regularly with her. In 1821 she accepted an invitation to stay with George Thomson in Edinburgh and one of … See more

    Jenny Clow

    Jenny Clow was a domestic servant to Agnes Maclehose. Her mistress sent her to deliver a letter to the poet and he seduced her. The twenty-year-old Jenny Clow gave birth in November 1788 to Robert Burns's child, Robe… See more

    May Cameron

    In 1787, Robert Burns also had a brief consummated affair with May Cameron, a servant girl working in Edinburgh near to the house of William Creech, Burns's Edinburgh publisher. After a brief relationshi… See more

     
  1. Agnes Broun - Wikipedia

  2. What happened to Robert Burns' women? - BBC News

    Jan 25, 2015 · Mr Waddell says that when Elizabeth fell pregnant Burns's mother Agnes wanted her son to do the "decent thing" and marry her.

  3. Jean Armour - Wikipedia

    Jean Armour (25 February 1765 – 26 March 1834), also known as the "Belle of Mauchline", was the wife of the poet Robert Burns. She inspired many of his poems and bore him nine children, three of whom survived into adulthood.

  4. Robert Burns (1759-1796) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

    Aug 5, 2024 · Robert Burns died in Dumfries on July 21st, 1796, of rheumatic fever (some note it was likely endocarditis). He was only 37 years old. On his deathbed, Robert spoke to his wife Jean, then to James Maclure, his …

  5. Maclehose, Agnes (1759–1841) - Encyclopedia.com

  6. Agnes McLehose: The Glasgow poet who enchanted Robert Burns

  7. Agnes Maclehose (1758-1841) | National Records of …

    Agnes Maclehose moved to Edinburgh where she met Robert Burns (1759-1796) at a tea party in 1787. The letters they wrote to each other as 'Clarinda' and 'Sylvander' are mentioned in the...

  8. Robert Burns (1759-1796) | National Records of Scotland

    The future poet was the eldest of seven children of William Burnes, a gardener and tenant farmer, and his wife, Agnes Brown. In 1756 William met Agnes at the fair in the parish of Maybole,...

  9. Mrs Agnes Maclehose, 'Clarinda'. Friend and correspondent of …

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