Jean Elliot

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Jean Elliot
Born April 1727 (1727-04)
Scotland
Died March 1805 (1805-04) (aged 77)
Monteviot House near Jedburgh
Nationality Scottish
Notable work(s) The Flowers of the Forest
Parents Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto
Notes
Jean Elliot (April 1727 – 29 March 1805), also known as Jane Elliot, was a Scottish poet, and the third daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland in 1763.[1] Her brothers included Gilbert, John, and Andrew Elliot.

Elliot wrote one of the most famous versions of The Flowers of the Forest, a song lamenting the disaster of Flodden Field in 1513 which begins "I've heard the lilting at our yowe-milking". Published in 1776, it is her only surviving work. The lyrics are set to a tune later collected into a melody by John Skene.

Another ballad with the same title beginning, "I've seen the smiling of fortune beguiling" had been written by Alicia Rutherford.[1]

She died at Monteviot House near Jedburgh in the Borders of Scotland.[2]

Notes

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Wikisource

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Pitcock, Murray G. H. Lawrence Goldman, ed. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004 ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2009-06-07. 
  2. ↑ "Jean Elliot". The Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 2007-08-06. 

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