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WARDLAW, ELIZABETH, LADY (1677-1727)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 323 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WARDLAW, See also:ELIZABETH, See also:LADY (1677-1727) , reputed author of Hardyknute, second daughter of See also:Sir See also:Charles Halket, was See also:born in See also:April 1677. She married in 1696 Sir See also:Henry Wardlaw, See also:Bart., of Pitreavie. The ballad of Hardyknute, published in 1719 as an old poem, was supposed to have been discovered by her in a vault at See also:Dunfermline, but no MS. was ever produced; and in the 1767 edition of See also:Percy's Reliques the poem was ascribed to her. The beautiful ballad of Sir See also:Patrick See also:Spens (F. J. See also:Child, See also:English and Scottish Popular See also:Ballads, ii. 17) has been also asserted to be her See also:work, one of the supporters of the theory being See also:Robert See also:Chambers (Remarks on Scottish Ballads, 1859). The level of accomplishment in Hardyknute, however, gives no See also:reason for supposing that Lady Wardlaw was capable of producing Sir Patrick Spens. See Norval Clyne, The Romantic Scottish Ballads and the Lady Wardlaw See also:Heresy (1859), and J. H. See also:Watkins, See also:Early Scottish Ballads (See also:Glasgow, 1867).

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