Who is Lady Anne Lindsay
Lady Anne Barnard (née Lindsay; 8 December 1750 – 6 May 1825) was a Scottish travel writer, artist and socialite, and the author of the ballad Auld Robin Gray. Her five-year residence in Cape Town, South Africa, although brief, had a significant impact on the cultural and social life of the time.Early life
Lady Anne Lindsay was born at Balcarres House in Fife, the first of nine children of Anne Lindsay (née Dalrymple) and James, Earl of Balcarres. In 1793 she moved to London, where she met and was married to Andrew Barnard, becoming Lady Anne Barnard. Her husband was twelve years her junior and the son of Thomas Barnard, Bishop of Limerick. She later obtained from Viscount Melville an appointment for him as colonial secretary at the Cape of Good Hope, which w...
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- Auld Robin Gray
When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at hame,
And a' the warld to rest are gane,
The waes o' my heart fa' in showers frae my e'e,
While my gudeman lies sound by me....
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Abowomeninarts: last is lenka filipova's "negotiating gender, representing landscape: teaching lady anne lindsay barnard’s letters, journals and watercolours from the cape colony (1797–1801)" which explores who to teach barnard's use of modesty and self-deprecationThisisnotahmad: it is so incredibly frustrating watching people re-evaluate their treatments of women in the media, such as britney spears, anne hathaway, pamela anderson, lindsay lohan, etc, only for them to then go and do the same exact thing to other women in real-time.
Toribarron13: there is transphobia on the left. ever called anne coulter a man? ever called lindsay graham a lady? those are only insults because even to the left, trans can = bad. i’d almost rather talk to an overt bigot. they’d just negate me and be done. 1/2
Henwood_anne: lady a ft. carly pearce & lindsay ell perform "like a lady" | 2021 cmt m...
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