Lady Grizel Baillie
Lady Grizel Baillie | |
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Redbraes Castle, Berwickshire | |
Died | 6 December 1746 (aged 80) |
Nationality | Scottish |
Occupation | songwriter |
Notable work | Were na my heart licht I wad die |
Lady Grizel Baillie, née Hume, (25 December 1665 – 6 December 1746) was a Scottish gentlewoman and songwriter. Her accounting ledgers, in which she kept details about her household for more than 50 years, provide information about social life in Scotland in the eighteenth century.
Biography
Born at
In 1692, Lady Grizel married
She died in London on 6 December 1746, and was buried at
Works
Songs
Her elder daughter, Lady Grizel Murray of Stanhope, had in her possession a manuscript in prose and verse of her mother's songs. Some of them had been printed in Allan Ramsay's, Tea-Table Miscellany. The most famous of Lady Grizel's Scots songs, "And werena my heart light I wad dee", originally appeared in William Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius, or a Collection of the Best Scotch Songs (1725).[3]
Household books
Lady Grizel Baillie's
Legacy
A great deal is known about George and Grizel Baillie's marriage and family thanks to the biography written by their daughter, Grizel Murray. Although not intended for publication, the biography appeared in print in 1809 in Observations on the Historical Work of the Right Honorable Charles James Fox under the title, "Lady Murray's Narrative". George Baillie's Correspondence (1702-1708) was edited by Lord Minto for the Bannatyne Club in 1842.[3]
Lady Grizel also was memorialized by a Scottish poet who claimed to be a distant relative,[8][9] Joanna Baillie, in a poem first published in 1821 in Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters.[10]
See also
References
- ^ OCLC 1057237368.
- OCLC 991471905.
- ^ a b c d e public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baillie, Lady Grizel". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 219. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Grosart, Alexander Balloch (1885). Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 413–14. . In
- ^ Lang, Jean; Lang, John (1916). Stories of the Border Marches. T. C. & E. C. Jack Ltd. p. 64.
- ^ House Book of Lady Grisell Baillie at Archive.org
- ISBN 978-0-521-34656-6.
- OCLC 1122692456.
- ^ "Lady Grizel Baillie, 25 December 1665 – 6 December 1746, Songwriter". Saltire Society Scotland. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ Baillie, Joanna (1821). Metrical Legends of exalted characters: By Joanna Baillie, Author of Plays ... Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. pp. 249–316.
Further reading
- Abernethy, Lesley (2020), Lady Grisell Baillie, Mistress of Mellerstain, Matador, Leicestershire, ISBN 978-1-83859-367-4
- Baillie, Grizel. The Household Book of Lady Grisell Baillie (1692–1733), edited with notes and introduction by Robert Scott-Moncrieff. Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society, 1911.
- MacDonald, Jasmine. The Baillies of Mellerstain: The Household Economy in an Eighteenth-Century Elite Household. Masters Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, 2010.