Janet Graham (poet)

For the English composer, music educator, and music therapist, see Janet Graham.

Janet Graham (1723–1805) was a Scottish poet, and a feature of 18th century Edinburgh society.

Biography

Graham was born at Shaw, near Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, in 1723. She lived in Dumfries and later Edinburgh, where she became a favoured member of Edinburgh society.

Graham is remembered for her only surviving published poem, The Wayward Wife, which was once popular and was reprinted a number of times in anthologies. The poem is a warning to a son about the demerits of matrimony. She died in Edinburgh in April 1805, aged 82.^[1][2]

References

1. Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Graham, Janet" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 22. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
2. Hamish Whyte, ‘Graham, Janet (1723–1805)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 3 Jan 2015]

Notes

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Goodwin, Gordon (1890). "Graham, Janet". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 22. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

External links

• The Wayward Wife (p. 120) in David Herd's Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc (1870)