THE POEMS OF CLARINDA; With a biographical sketch of the heroine by John D. Ross
Stirling, Scotland: Mackay, (1929). First Edition. 8vo, pages not numbered. Paper wraps with attached dj. Cover and dj worn, o/w VG. Item #30495
McLehose, a Scot, was the "Clarinda" of Robert Burns. Known at an early age for her beauty, she was "of lovely and easy manners, of a poetical fabric of mind, with some wit and not too high a degree of refinement or delicacy." (Robert Chambers in Works of Robert Burns). In 1776 she married James McLehose, a Glasgow lawyer, and they separated four years later. She met Burns in Dec 1787. They continued a voluminous correspondence.
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