Author

Elizabeth Wardlaw (Lady Wardlaw)(1677–1727)

Elizabeth Wardlaw (Lady Wardlaw) is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts. One work is named, all in Early Reading Notes on Ballads, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

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Present in: Manuscripts

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In Fuller’s words

“Oh! Handyknute is a splendid ballad! _ / I can hardly conceive that a woman should / have written it _ I wish I could see her / Lady Wardlaw and Miss Baillie _”

Hardyknute · Early Reading Notes on Ballads

When Fuller engaged with Elizabeth Wardlaw (Lady Wardlaw)

No datable encounters with Wardlaw, Elizabeth (Lady Wardlaw) have been catalogued yet.

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Wardlaw in Fuller’s reading world

Hardyknute

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

Undated

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Early Reading Notes on Ballads

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“Oh! Handyknute is a splendid ballad! _ / I can hardly conceive that a woman should / have written it _ I wish I could see her / Lady Wardlaw and Miss Baillie _”

Fuller, Margaret. "Early Reading Notes on Ballads." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Fuller names '“Hardyknute”' and identifies its author as Lady Wardlaw (Elizabeth Wardlaw, née Halket, 1677–1727), a Scottish noblewoman who composed this faux-antique ballad c. 1719.