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WARDLAW, ELIZABETH, LADY (1677-1727)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 323 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WARDLAW, ELIZABETH, LADY (1677-1727) , reputed author of Hardyknute, second daughter of Sir Charles Halket, was born in April 1677. She married in 1696 Sir
Henry
  Wardlaw, Bart., of Pitreavie. The ballad of Hardyknute, published in 1719 as an old poem, was supposed to have been discovered by her in a vault at Dunfermline, but no MS. was ever produced; and in the 1767 edition of
Percy
 's Reliques the poem was ascribed to her. The beautiful ballad of Sir
Patrick
 
Spens
  (F. J. Child, English and Scottish Popular
Ballads
 , ii. 17) has been also asserted to be her
work
 , one of the supporters of the theory being Robert Chambers (Remarks on Scottish
Ballads
 , 1859). The level of accomplishment in Hardyknute, however, gives no reason for supposing that Lady Wardlaw was capable of producing Sir Patrick
Spens
 .
See Norval Clyne, The Romantic Scottish Ballads and the Lady Wardlaw Heresy (1859), and J. H. Watkins, Early Scottish Ballads (Glasgow, 1867).


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