Jean Adamb Greenock 1710; d Glasgow 2 April 1765. |
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Jean Adam was the daughter of a shipmaster, and was orphaned at an early age. She became a governess, and founded a girls' school in Greenock. Her only collection is the "Miscellany Poems" of 1734, and she lived in poverty in London, before eventually dying in a Glasgow poorhouse. "The Song of the Mariner's Wife", also known as "There's nae luck aboot the hoose" and published in David Herd's collection of 1776, is attributed to her.
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Miscellany Poems (1734). |