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It’s come to my attention that I did not successfully upload the link to my essay on Walter Scott’s poem “The Lay of the Last Minstrel.” The essay is titled “‘To View Fair Melrose Aright,’” and it’s available via The Bottle Imp, the online newsletter of the Scottish Studies Association. Here again is the link…
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My personal heroine is someone I’ll never meet, but I sure wish I’d had the chance. Mary Baker, a/k/a Mary Willcocks, was a working-class woman, born in the late eighteenth century, who was reborn in 1817 as “Caraboo,” the kidnapped princess of an undiscovered Asian island. I’ve been researching and writing about Mary/Caraboo for many…
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My personal heroine is someone I’ve never met, but I sure wish I’d had the chance: Mary Baker, a/k/a Mary Willcocks, a/k/a “Princess Caraboo.” Mary was born in the late eighteenth century to an impoverished family in Somerset. In 1817 she was reborn as “Caraboo,” the shipwrecked princess of an undiscovered Asian island. I have…
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Hello all, this is Meg (Margaret) Russett, a professor of English who specializes in things Romantic. I’m using this blog mainly to re-publish some pieces of writing that have gone by the wayside, or just never made it on to the internet. The first entry in this category is a short essay on Walter Scott’s…
Romantic Byways 