WorkElizabeth Wardlaw (Lady Wardlaw)

“Hardyknute”

Elizabeth Wardlaw (Lady Wardlaw) (1677–1727)

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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.