Jean Gardner
Close friend of Robert Burns and a Buchanite / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jean Gardner or later Jean Hill, was "a young woman of very surpassing beauty,"[1] with a "light foot and an ensnaring eye,"[2] but she may have been thirteen years older[3] than Robert Burns with whom she was on friendly or 'intimate' terms. A strong local tradition in Irvine[3] links her with Burns, however no contemporary written evidence records this relationship[3] and Burns himself is not thought to have written about her, other than a disputed use of her given name as the 'darling Jean' of Burns's 'Epistle to Davie', and most recent writers have considered the reference to be to Jean Armour.[1]
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Jean Gardner | |
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Born | September 1746 Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland |
Died | Circa 1793 Philadelphia, USA |
Occupation | Housewife |
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