Mary Read was the illegitimate daughter of an Englishwoman, who brought her up as a boy after revealing to her the secret of her origin, apparently wishing to protect her against the mischances ...

The epigraph that begins 'Address to the Unco Guid' is a biblical paraphrase in the vernacular, by Burns, of Solomon in Ecclesiastes 7:16, and sets the tone for what will follow. Ecclesiastes ...

Gavin Hamilton (1751-1805) was the man who sublet Mossgiel to Burns and his brother Gilbert in 1784. He encouraged Burns to publish his poems, and as a result the Kilmarnock edition is dedicated ...

“Ham’s survival, despite a host of harrowing mischances over which he had no control, raised the confidence of the astronauts ...