Jean Adam
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For the French bow makers, see Jean Dominique Adam and Jean Adam (bow maker).
Jean Adam (or Adams) (30 April 1704 – 3 April 1765) was a Scottish poet from the labouring classes;[1] her best-known work is "There's Nae Luck Aboot The Hoose". In 1734 she published a volume of her poetry entitled Miscellany poems, but the cost of shipping a substantial number to the British colony of Boston in North America, where they did not sell well, forced her to turn first to teaching and then to domestic labour. She died penniless in Glasgow's Town's Hospital poorhouse at the age of sixty.