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Goldie, Alexander (b. 1841), of Catrine, Sorn, Ayrshire, cotton factory worker, Co-op Treasurer, Abstainer. Ref: Edwards, 11, 358-63. [S] ? Gomersall, Mrs. A, destitute widow of seventy-four, pub. by subscription Creation. A Poem (Newport, [Isle of Wight]: printed for the author, 1824). Ref: Johnson, item 382; Charles Cox, Catalogue 51 (2005), item 119. [F] Gooch, Richard (‘Cassial’, b. 1784), of Blundeston, Suffolk, self-taught farm labourer and whitesmith, lived for most of his life in Norwich, Lakenham and Povingland, pub. Memoirs, Remarkable Vicisssitudes, Military Career and Wanderings in Ireland, Mechanical and Astronomical Exercises, Scientific Researches, Incidents and Opinions of Cassial, the Norfolk Astrologer, Written by Himself (Norwich, 1844), a ‘most unusual book which ‘occasionally breaks into verse’ (Burnett et al); Ref Burnett et al (1984), no. 133. Goodlet, Quentin C., compositor, of Glasgow, pub. Flittings of Fancy (Glasgow, 1878). Ref: Edwards, 15, 173-6. [S] Gordon, Alexander (1809-73), of Aberdeen, shoemaker, clerk, trade unionist, soldier, pub. satirical and political poems in newspapers. Ref: Edwards, 9, 96-103. [S] Gordon, Francis Hogg (b. 1853/4), of Durris, Kircardineshire, shepherd’s son, forester, piper; pub. in East of Fife News, People’s Journal; Weekly News. Ref: Edwards, 3, 365-6; Reid, Bards, 184-5. [S] ? Gordon, Georgina Jane, of Melbourne, Australia, daughter of an emigrant farming family who returned to Scotland when she was three, settled in the Highlands of Sutherland, then moved to farm at Alehouseburn, Bannf; poems include ‘A Mother’s Grief,’ ‘Cuddle Doon, My Bairnie,’ and ‘Dreich I’, the Draw. Ref: Edwards, 2, 256-9; inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S] Gordon, John W. (b. 1868), of Kilmarnock, miner, pub. in newspapers. Ref: Edwards, 15, 329-33. [S] Gordon, Joseph, butler to the Earl of Airlie at Gortachy Castle; pub. Poetical Trifles (Forfar, 1825). Ref: Reid, Bards, 185-6. [S] Gordon, William (b. 1857), of Bourtie, Aberdeenshire, herd laddie, railway porter, signalman. Ref: Edwards, 14, 241-6; Reid, Bards, 187. [S] Gould, Robert (1660?-1708/9), born in humble circumstances, orphan, servant of the Earl of Dorset, obtained some education, pub. Love given over, or a Satyr against Woman (1680), Poems chiefly consisting of Satyrs and Satyrical Epistles (1689), The Rival Sisters (1696), a tragedy acted at Drury Lane; The works of Mr. Robert Gould (1709). Ref: Foxon; ODNB; E. H. Sloane, Robert Gould: seventeenth-century satirist (1940); C. R. Johnson catalogue 55 (2013), items 1-4. [OP] Gow, James (1814-72), of Dundee, ‘The Weaver Poet’, soldier’s son. Ref: Edwards, 8, 273-84; Reid, Bards, 188. [S] ? Gowenlock, R. Scott, of Oldham, pub. Idyls of the people (London and Manchester, 1867). Ref: Reilly (2000), 189. Gracie, Thomas Grierson, pub. Songs and Rhymes of a Lead Miner (Dumfries: The Courier and Herald Press, 1921), 100 pp. with photo. Ref: inf. Bob Heyes. [OP] Graham, Charles (b. c. 1750, fl. 1796), of Penrith, ‘mechanic who was never taught the rudiments in the English language’, pub. Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse (Kendal: W. Pennington, 1778); includes an epistle ‘To a friend in America’, ‘On John Wesley’s Address to the Americans’, ‘A Pastoral Dialogue, in the Cumberland Dialect’, and an essay ‘On the Savage diversion of Cock-Fighting’. Croft & Beattie quote a notice in the Cumberland Chronicle and Whitehaven Public Advertiser for March 1778 that Graham intends to publish this volume by subscription, wishing him success and noting that ‘several of Mr. Graham’s productions have been noticed by the ingenious Mr. Dodsley, and published in his Annual Register’. The subscribers are ‘a cross-section of Cumberland society’ and include Wordsworth’s cousin Richard, of Whitehaven. Ref: Radcliffe; Burmester catalogue 58; Croft & Beattie I, 85 (item 285); inf. Bob Heyes. ? Graham, Dougal (1721-79), chapbook writer, bellman and chapman of Glasgow poet, took part in the ’45, pub. chapbooks ‘valuable as folklore’ (DNB); Collected Writings, ed. by G. MacGregor (2 vols, Glasgow, 1883); in verse, A Full, Particular and True Account of the Rebellion in the Years 1745–6 (1746); ‘The Battle of Drummossie-Muir’ (1746); the poems 'The Turnimspike,' 'John Highlandman's Remarks on Glasgow' are also ascribed to him. Ref: ODNB; Glasgow Poets, 38-46; Wilson, II, 519. [S] ? Graham, Maud (b. 1871), of Londonderry, Ireland, moved with her parents to Paisley when she was four; after education in school until the age of thirteen, she began work in a furnishing shop. Ref: Brown, II, 541-47; inf. Florence Boos. [I] [F] [S] Graham, William (b. 1816), of County Down went to Paisley aged six, drawboy then weaver, then enlisted in British Legion, worked in coal mining then returned to Paisley, pub. The Wild Rose, Being Songs, Comic and Sentimental (Paisley, 1851). Ref: Brown, II, 61-65; Leonard, 193-94. [I] [S] ? Grant, Joseph (1805-35), of Afrusk, Kincairdshire farmer’s son, later journalist on the Dundee Guardian. Pub. Juvenile Lays (1828) and Kincardineshire Traditions (1830). Ref: ODNB; Edwards, 10, 344-57; Shanks, 141; Reid, Bards, 193-8. [S] Grant, Lewis (1872-92), of Loch Park, workman’s son and self-taught teenage prodigy, poems in the People’s Journal. Ref: Edwards, 12, 196-206. [S] Grant, Robert (1818-95), of Peterhead, tailor, newspaper editor. Ref: Edwards, 3, 391-2 and 16, [lix]. [S] Grant, William (c. 1828-57), of Tannadyce, miller at Finhaven, fiddler, ‘debater’, emigrated to Detroit in 1856, died a year later; pub. A Few Poetical Pieces (1856). Ref: Reid, Bards, 198-9. [S] ? Gray, Christian (1772-1830), blind poet of Aberdalgie, Perth, born into a farming family ruined by the drought years of 1816-26, daughter of George Gray and Janet MacDonald, pub. Tales, Letters, and Other Pieces, in Verse (Edinburgh, 1808), ‘Victims of War’ (1811), A New Selection of Miscellaneous Pieces, in Verse (Perth, 1821). Ref: Jackson (1993), 138; Johnson 46, no. 187; inf. Bob White; biography by Isobel Grundy in Blain et al (1990), 454. [F] [S] Gray, David (1838-61), of Duntiblae, Dunbartonshire and Glasgow, son of a handloom weaver, pupil-teacher, pub. The Luggie, and other poems (1862) with a memoir by James Hedderwick, and a prefatory notice by Richard Monckton Milnes (Cambridge, 1862), Poems by David Gray (1865), other editions of 1874 and 1886; also republished some poems in 1920 and 1991 as In the Shadows. Ref: LION; Glasgow Poets, 398-403; Macleod, 273-77; Hood, 367-78; Wilson, II, 485-8; Douglas, 269-73, 314-15; Reilly (2000), 191-2; Sutton, 413 (manuscripts and letters); A.V. Stuart, David Gray, The Poet of the Luggie: A Centenary Booklet (Kirkintilloch: privately published pamphlet, 1961). [S] ? Gray, Isabella A., born at Hawthorn Cottage, Lilliesleaf, St. Boswells, where her father owned a few acres of land; pub. in local periodicals such as The Border Magazine. Among her poems are ‘Eyes,’ ‘The Bairns,’ ‘Gossip,’ and ‘Dear Little Loo.’ Ref: Edwards, 11, 293; inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S] Gray, John Y., ‘G.’ (b. 1846), of Letham, Forfarshire, handloom weaver, poems in Edwards. Ref: Edwards, 10, 257-66. [S] ? Gray, Mary (b. 1853), of Huntly, Aberdeenshire, where her father was house carpenter; Gray prepared to teach, and did so until 1880, but since then has been ‘occupied chiefly in private tuition and home duties’; obtained L.L.A. from St. Andrews University in 1882, the only university-educated woman on this list, and perhaps arguably therefore categorizable as middle-class. Pub. Lyrics and Epigrams After Goethe and Other German Poets (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1853). Her poems are of high quality, among them ‘The Dead Child,’ ‘A Cradle Song,’ ‘The Violet,’ ‘The World Is Fair,’ ‘Springtime,’ ‘Necessity,’ and ‘Twilight Thoughts.’ Ref: Edwards, 14, 186; inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S] Greatbach, John, ‘a member of the operative community’, Staffs. potter; writing for a prize offered by the committee of the Stoke-upon-Trent Athenaeum, competing with other working men, pub. Christmas (A Prize Poem) and Other Poems (London: Lockwood, 1860). Ref: inf. Bob Heyes. Greig, James (b. 1861), of Arbroath, flaxdresser, pub. poems in Dundee Weekly News. Ref: Edwards 9, 59-63. [S] Greene, J. W. (b. 1864), of Galston, Ayrshire, miner, emigrated to Australia but returned, journalist, pub. in newspapers. Ref: Edwards, 15, 345-50. [S] Greensted, Frances, of Maidstone, Kent, domestic servant who was supporting an ageing mother, and had worked for the same family for twenty years at the time that she pub. Fugitive Pieces (Maidstone, London, Bath, Marlborough, Faversham, Chatham & Canterbury, 1796). Ref: Jackson (1993), 139, Johnson, item 390 (reproduces title page, with 4-line tag from Pope [Epistle to Arbuthnot] beginning ‘I left no calling for the idle trade’), Burmester, item 404 and 118 (image). [F] Gregory, John (1831-1922), ‘The Poet-Shoemaker of Bristol’, of Bideford, Devon, minimally educated shoemaker in Bristol, Tenby, Aberavon, Swansea and Cardiff, friend of Capern (qv), socialist and stalwart of the labour movement, much honoured in his adopted city of Bristol, whose university awarded him an MA. ~ Gregory was born in Bideford, Devon. His father was a clerk in a merchant’s office and a highly esteemed Wesleyan lay preacher. He received minimal schooling, and became an apprentice shoemaker at age eleven. During his seven-year apprenticeship, Gregory gained the friendship of Edward Capern, the ‘Postman Poet’, which compounded his proclivity for writing. While aiding a sick friend leaving Bristol for Devon in 1856, Gregory met Ann, who he would wed five weeks later: ‘I saw him off by the train, and in the evening met my fate, this, as usual being in feminine form’ (Gregory cited Wright 1896). The North Devon Journal featured Gregory’s earliest literary contribution. From the outset, Gregory championed the cause of his fellow workmen, and became a pioneering member of the Labour movement, affiliating himself with an assortment of trades societies. ~ Gregory spent the largest portion of his life in Bristol. His verses were published regularly in local newspapers, and in 1883, a volume entitled Idyls of Labour was met with commendation in the Cliftonian: ‘Mr Gregory’s is a teeming, luxuriant fancy; he could set up a score of poets with the mere filings of his gold… It is quite certain that his book contains poetry, and a great deal of very fine poetry’ (cited Wright 1896). In the preface to his second volume, Song Streams (1877), Gregory stresses the difficulty of accomplishing a feat of literature under the shadow of grinding labour, and writes: ‘Hope not, then to find within the compass of my waif-fold the wonders of poesy. Yet here shall you discover flowers you will not disdain, and among the leaves thoughts that shall not be forgotten’ (cited Wright 1896). ~ Gregory was assigned leader of the Organising Committee of the Bristol Socialist Society in 1885. He was noted for his antipathy towards the death penalty and his advocacy of freedom of speech. His opposition to imperialistic policy is exemplified in ‘Ireland’, which marks the 1886 General Election and Gladstone’s efforts to pass the Home Rule Bill. Unflinching declarations and observations abound: ‘When that I read her story, / I hate my nation’s name… We taught them with our tortures, / The hate they justly hoard, / When we made them rebels, / We cut them down with the sword… Much have we sinned against her, / And great hath been our crime. / Her fat lands for the spoiler, / And not for her are sown…’ (Sables 2001). ~ Gregory was conferred with an honorary MA from the University of Bristol in 1912. He and his wife had nine children. Richard, his second son, became sub-editor of the journal Nature and was knighted for his contributions to science, especially in the field of astronomy. Pub. Idylls of labour (London and Bristol, 1871), Song Streams (1877), Murmurs and Melodies (1884), My Garden and Other Poems (1907), A Dream of Love in Eden (1911), Star Dreams (1919). Ref: LC 6, 193-210; Wright, 211-14; Reilly (2000), 194; George Hare Leonard, Some Memories of John Gregory (1922); Gerrard Sables, A working-class friend of Ireland: John Gregory 1831-1922 (2001) http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/features/a-working-class-friend-of-ireland/; A Souvenir of John Gregory, ed. Gerrard Sables (Bristol: Fiducia Press, 2007); John Goodridge, ‘John Gregory, St Mary Redcliffe and the Memorialising of Chatterton’, chapter in Literary Bristol: Writing the City, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts (Bristol: Redcliffe Press, 2015); ‘Volume of poems, newspaper cuttings, etc, by or about John Gregory, c. 1886-1931’, Bristol Public Library Local Studies Collection, item 21416; Gregory Papers, Special Collections Department, Bristol University Library, ref. DM1741; the papers of Gregory’s friend and fellow shoemaker-poet John Wall, Bristol Record Office, ref. 37886. [LC6] [—Iain Rowley] Greig, David Lundie (b. 1837), of Edinburgh, mill-worker, blacksmith, Sunday school teacher, pub. Pastimes musings ... with supplementary contributions by John Paul and David Tasker [qv] (Arbroath, 1892). Ref: Edwards, 12, 110-16; Reid, Bards, 202-3; Reilly (1994), 197. [S] Greig, James (1861-1941), of Arbroath, Angus, flax-dresser, journalist and writer; pub. Poems and Songs from the Hackle-shop (Arbroath, 1887). Ref: Reid, Bards, 203-5; Reilly (1994), 198. [S] Grewar, Alexander (1815-94), of Dalnamer, Glenisla, tailor. Ref: Reid, Bards, 205-6. [S] Grierson, Constantia (1704/5-1732), Irish printer’s wife, daughter of ‘poor illiterate country people’, self-taught classicist, born in Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny. Although born to a poor family, Grierson’s father facilitated her rapid mastery of the classical languages through supplying her with suitable volumes. She proceeded to garner further instruction from the minister of the parish when she could find time away from her needlework. At age 18, Grierson was appointed to a Dublin physician to train as a midwife, and married George Grierson, the King’s Printer, soon after her arrival. This granted her the direct means for publishing her own work, and she produced three editions of Latin classics: Virgil (1724), Terence (1727) and Tacitus (1730). Dr E. Harwood considered the latter to be ‘one of the best edited books ever delivered to the world’. Grierson was working on an edition of Sallust when she died at 27. Her Poems on Several Occasions was printed in 1735, but many of her poems are no longer extant; a few have survived mainly through inclusion in collections. Laetitia Pilkington ranked her talent beyond that of any other woman writer of her era, singling out a poem on ‘Bishop Berkeley’s Bermudian Scheme’—which presented the Bishop as a true ambassador of Christ—as particularly noteworthy. Of her two sons, one died young, while the other, George Abraham Grierson, grew to be King’s Printer. Like his mother, he died at 27, after a spell of recognition for his exceptional knowledge, wit and vigour. Pub: ‘The Goddess Envy’ (1730), Poems on Several Occasions (London: Printed for C. Rivington 1735), ‘On the Art of Printing’ (1764). Ref: Carpenter, 203; DNB; Fullard, 556; Lonsdale, (1989), 91-3; Rowton, 161-2; Todd, Dictionary of...Women Writers 1660-1800; Backscheider, 406; Backscheider & Ingrassia, 875. [I] [F] [—Iain Rowley] ? Grieve, John (1781-1836), born at Dunfermline, pseudonym “C,” of Edinburgh, his father was a Presbyterian minister; a merchant's clerk, then bank clerk, and finally settled as a hat maker with partner Chalmers Izzet. Questionable labouring class status. On intimate terms with Hogg, who supported him financially, and contributed to his Forest Minstrel (1810), wrote poems including ‘Polwarth on the Green’ pub. in Crockett.] Ref: Crockett, 325. [S] ? Griffith, George Chetwynd (‘Lara’, d. 1906), self-educated clergyman’s son, wandered the world as a sailor, butcher, schoolmaster and journalist, among other jobs, settled in Littlehampton, pub. Poems: general, secular, and satirical (London and Edinburgh, 1883). Ref: Reilly (1994), 198. Gruffydd, Owen (c. 1643-1730), of Llanystumdwy, Caernarvonshire, weaver, Welsh-language poet and geneaologist, blind. Poems (written in alliterative meter): ‘The Day of Judgement’, ‘Old Age and Youth’, ‘The Creation of Man, his Fall and Deliverance’, ‘A Song of Praise.' Appeared in Carolau a Dyriau Duwiol (1696, 1720, 1729) and Blodeu-gerdd Cymry (1759), and selected verse (ed. Owen M. Edwards ,1904). Majority of verse remains in ms in British Library, Cardiff Public Library, and National Library of Wales, Cwrt-Mawr MSS. Ref: ODNB, OCLW. [W] [-Katie Osborn] ? Guthrie, Ellen Emma, pub. Retrospection. An Exile’s Memories of Skye (1876), dedicated to a lady in Skye to whom she has sent these verses of her memories. The poem itself tells of a boy’s poverty-striken childhood, in which he and his parents nearly starved before they were forced to emigrate; it seems quasi-authobiographical, even though told from the viewpoint of a male protagonist. Ref: inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S] Guthrie, George (b. 1842), of Newcastle upon Tyne, blacksmith at Wallsend and Sunderland, songwriter. Ref: Allan, 518. Gwyer, Joseph (‘The Penge Poet’, b. 1835), of Redlynch, Downton, Wilt., farmer’s son, millworker in Bermondsey, potato-salesman and author of ‘doggerel platitudes’, moved to Penge, involved in the Baptist Church and the temperance movement, pub. Sketches of the life of Joseph Gwyer; with his poems, ramble round the neighbourhood, glimpses of departed days (2nd edn Penge, 1876, 4th edn, Penge and London, 1877), Poems and prose (London, 1895), with biographical materials by C.H. Spurgeon. Ref: Burnett et al (1984), no. 291a; Maidment (1987), 209; Reilly (1994), 202; Reilly (2000), 197-8; Charles Cox, Catalogue 51 (2005), item 122. Hadden, James (1800-64), of Stonehaven, ‘belonged to the labouring class’; a ‘big sonsty cheild’, with a reputation for his poetry and his skill at playing draughts while bindfolded; died in poverty, leaving unpub. MSS with his widow; pub. a small vol. in Aberdeen in 1850. Ref: Reid, Bards, 214-15. [S] Hague, Tom (1915-1998), coalminer who wrote prose and verse under the name ‘Totley Tom’, dialect verse pub. in Tales of a Yorkshire Miner (1976); http://sheffieldvoices.group.shef.ac.uk/fgttom.htm. Ref: info Yann Lovelock. [OP] ? Haigh, Levi, village postman at Sowerby Bridge, pub. Poems and Pictures 1922-9 (Halifax, 1929), five booklets bound together; also contributed to an autograph commonplace book up to 1927. Ref: inf. Bob Heyes. ? Hair, Mary Bowskill (1804-84), of Airdrie, printer (in partnership with Hugh Baird), schoolmaster’s widow; poems in Knox include one on the sewing machine. Ref: Knox, 288-9. [F] [S] Hall, Joseph, collier, broadside songwriter, of Sheriff Hill, Gateshead. Ref Harker (1999), 120-22. Hall, Spencer Timothy (1812-85), ‘The Sherwood Forester’, born in Sutton-in-Ashfield, after a very lijited education was set to work at seven, and was later a stocking weaver, printer, bookseller and lecturer, publisher; leader and biographer of the Nottingham Group; also an accomplished mesmerist: in 1843, he founded the journal The Phreno-Magnet, or, Mirror of Nature. Hall was inspired to become a printer by reading the life of Benjamin Franklin. His first publication, The Forester's Offering (London: Whittaker, 1841), he initially set in print himself, in large part without a manuscript. Other pubs. include The Upland Hamlet (1847); Lays from the Lakes (Rochdale and Windermere, 1878); The Peak and the Plain (1853). Ref: ODNB/DNB; Powell, item 232; James, 171; Reilly (2000), 202; Newsham 190-2. ? Hall, Thomas (fl. 1805-15), of Winchester, pub. Poems on Various Subjects, written in the debtors’ ward (Winchester, ?1805; 1808; Oxford and London, 1810; Hereford, ?1815); includes the poem ‘To the memory of John Howard’ and ‘May Day; or, chimney sweeper’s elegy on the death of mrs Montagu’. Ref Johnson, 405; CBEL3, 345. Hall, William (b. 1825), of Galashiels, weaver, gamekeeper, photographer, pub. poems in newspapers. Ref: Edwards, 8, 59-63. [S] Hamilton, Alexander (1832-95), of Kirkton Mains, Bathgate, farmer and gardener, pub. poems in the West Lothian Courier. Ref: Bisset, 184-90. [S] Hamilton, Janet Thomson (1795-1873), of Langloan, poet, daughter of a shoemaker; though she received no formal education, her mother taught her to read and spin. At the age of thirteen or fourteen she married John Hamilton, also a shoemaker, with whom she raised their ten children, while working also as a tambourer. At fifty-four she learned to write. ~ Born Janet Thompson at Shotts parish, Lanarkshire, while she was still in infancy, Janet’s family relocated to Langloan - where her parents worked as field labourers. Janet initially supplemented their income by spinning yarn, before taking up embroidery. With her mother’s assistance, Janet learnt to read before she was five years old - she borrowed books from the village library, including the Bible, Paradise Lost, the poetry of Burns, assorted histories, and volumes of the Spectator and Rambler. In her teens, she began writing religious verses that embodied her Scottish Calvinism; Robinson (2003) highlights that she memorised her works as she composed them, and Cunningham (2000. p. 41) notes ‘a pseudo-oriental handwriting she concocted for herself’. ~ After Janet’s father secured business as a shoemaker, at 14 years of age she married one of his workmen, John Hamilton, with whom she would bear 10 children. Janet Hamilton’s devotion to her family would not afford her sufficient time to practise her poetry until she was in her mid-fifties. Then, having taught herself to write, she became one of the few women to have essays featured in Cassell’s journal Working Man’s Friend, and proceeded to have several volumes of poetry published—the first being Poems and essays of a miscellaneous character on subjects of general interest, published in 1863. The Glaswegian missionary William Logan is noted as a significant figure in facilitating her literary success, buying her books in bulk and dispatching them to prominent critics. ~ Over these volumes, Cunningham (2000. p. 41) distinguishes her writing as ‘forthright, indignant, canny about Scottishness, the plight of the poor, worldwide oppression, war, slavery, drunkenness, Sabbath-breaking’. In ‘Oor Location’, Hamilton’s trenchant, heavily onomatopoeic Scots dialect verse rails against the ‘dreadfu’ curse o’ drinkin’!’ – ‘Oh the dool an’ desolation, / An’ the havock in the nation / Wrocht by dirty, drucken wives! / Oh hoo mony bairnies lives / Lost ilk year through their neglec’!’ – as part of a reflection on the darker ramifications of the Industrial Revolution. ~ Hamilton’s commitment to education is crystallised in a prose extract from Poems and essays… She laments that the labouring classes are ‘debarred from the attainment of the elegant tastes and refined perceptions acquired by those on whom the gifts of fortune, and a desire of improving and adorning their minds, have conferred the high advantages of a liberal and finished education’. However, she affirms that access to literature empowers anyone to ‘indulge a taste for the sublime and beautiful’, suggesting that the ‘gifts of God, of Nature, and of the Muses are as impartially and profusely bestowed’ on the lower orders as on the higher ones (Robinson 2003. p. 132). ~ As Hamilton grew blind in her last eighteen years, her literary output decreased. Her husband and daughter Marion read to her, while her son James was amanuensis. Nonetheless, she retained her popularity, being bestowed with a £10 grant from the Royal Bounty following a petition to Prime Minister Disraeli, and being visited by the likes of Garibaldi’s son—noting her advancement the of Italian liberation cause. ~ Hamilton died on 27 October 1873, having never been twenty miles from home. 400 people attended her funeral, and roughly 20,000 people congregated to hear the dedicatory lecture at the erecting of a memorial. Pub. Poems and Songs (Edinburgh, 1863), Poems and essays of a Miscellaneous Character of Subjects of General Interest (Edinburgh, 1863; full text available on Google books), Poems of purpose and sketches in prose of Scottish Peasant Life and Character in Auld Langsyne: with a glossary (Edinburgh, 1865), Sketches (Edinburgh, 1865), Poems and Ballads (Edinburgh, 1868; Glasgow, 1868, With introductory papers by G. Gilfilan and A. Wallace); Poems, Essays and Sketches (Edinburgh, 1870; a collection of verses from the 1863 and 1865 poetry books); Pictures in Prose and Verse; or, Personal recollections of the late Janet Hamilton, together with several hitherto unpublished poetic pieces (1877, J. Young ed., Glasgow); and a memorial volume Poems, Essays, and Sketches: Comprising the Principal Pieces from her Complete Works (Edinburgh, 1880, 1885). Hamilton published poems and essays in periodicals, including The Adviser and The Working Man’s Friend, throughout the 1850s. Ref: LC 5, 245-66; ODNB/DNB; Edwards, 1, 248-59; Glasgow Poets, 224-32; Wilson, II, 149-51; Shanks, 159; Murdoch, 334-7; Maidment (1987), 187, 203-4, 267-8; Boos (1995); Valentine Cunningham, The Victorians (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000); ABC, 162-6; Breen xvii, 89-92; McMillan, D. (ed), The Scotswoman at Home and Abroad (Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2000); Robinson, S.C., Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2003); Wilson, J. G (1876) Poets and Poetry of Scotland. Volume 2, pp. 149-151; Wright, J (1889) Janet Hamilton and other papers. Edinburgh; Memoirs and portraits of one hundred Glasgow men: William Logan http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/mlemen/mlemen050.htm; Reilly (2000), 204; Boos (2001); Boos (2008), 47-109; inf. Florence Boos. Link: wcwp [F] [S] [LC 5] [—Iain Rowley] Hamilton, John (b. 1827), of Paisley, cloth calenderer, later photographer in Greenock and Port Glasgow, pub. 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