Janet Little (later Richmond)

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• AN ACROSTIC UPON A YOUNG WOMAN, WRITTEN BY HER LOVER. ()
• ALCANZAR. ()
• ALMEDA AND FLAVIA. ()
• AMANDA: AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MRS. —, PERSONATING HER HUSBAND. ()
• ANOTHER EPISTLE TO NELL. ()
• THE CAPTIVATED SOLDIER. ()
• CELIA AND HER LOOKING GLASS. ()
• COLIN AND ALEXIS. ()
• DAMON AND PHILANDER. ()
• THE ENVIED KISS. ()
• AN EPISTLE TO A LADY. November, 1789. ()
• AN EPISTLE TO MR. ROBERT BURNS. ()
• EPISTLE TO NELL, WROTE FROM LOUDOUN CASTLE. ()
• AN EXTEMPORARY ACROSTIC. ()
• THE FICKLE PAIR. ()
• FROM ALONZO TO DELIA. ()
• FROM DELIA TO ALONZO. ()
• FROM DELIA TO ALONZO. WHO HAD SENT HER A SLIGHTING EPISTLE. ()
• FROM FLAVIA TO CARLOS. ()
• FROM PHILANDER TO EUMENES. ()
• FROM SNIPE, A FAVOURITE DOG, TO HIS MASTER. May, 1791. ()
• GIVEN TO A LADY WHO ASKED ME TO WRITE A POEM. ()
• LOTHARIO. ()
• THE LOTTERY TICKET. ()
• LUCINA: AN ELEGY. ()
• THE MONTH'S LOVE. ()
• NELL'S ANSWER. ()
• ON A GENTLEMAN'S PROPOSING TO TRAVEL 300 MILES TO SEE J—. H—. ESQ.'S CHILD. ()
• ON A VISIT TO MR. BURNS. ()
• ON AN UNLOOKED-FOR SEPARATION FROM A FRIEND. ()
• ON HALLOWEEN. ()
• ON HAPPINESS. ()
• ON READING LADY MARY MONTAGUE AND MRS. ROWE'S LETTERS. ()
• ON SEEING MR. — BAKING CAKES. ()
• ON THE BIRTH OF J—. H—. ESQ.'S SON. NOVEMBER 15, 1790. ()
• ON THE DEATH OF J—. H—. ESQ. JUNE, 1790. ()
• ON THE SPRING. ()
• A POEM ON CONTENTMENT. INSCRIBED TO JANET NICOL, A POOR OLD WANDERING WOMAN, WHO LIVES BY THE WALL AT LOUDOUN AND USED SOMETIMES TO BE VISITED BY THE COUNTESS. ()
• THE RIVAL SWAINS. ()
• SYLVIA AND ARMEDA. ()
• TO A LADY WHO SENT THE AUTHOR SOME PAPER WITH A READING OF SILLAR'S POEMS. ()
• TO A LADY, A PATRONESS OF THE MUSES, ON HER RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS. ()
• TO A YOUNG MAN UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH FOR FORGERY. FROM HIS MISTRESS. ()
• TO HOPE. ()
• TO MY AUNTY. ()
• TO NELL WHEN AT MOFFAT WELL. ()
• TO THE COUNTESS OF LOUDOUN. ()
• TO THE PUBLIC. ()
• THE UNFORTUNATE RAMBLER. ()
• UPON A YOUNG LADY'S BREAKING A LOOKING-GLASS. ()
• UPON A YOUNG LADY'S LEAVING LOUDOUN CASTLE. ()
• VERSES WRITTEN ON A FOREIGNER'S VISITING THE GRAVE OF A SWISS GENTLEMAN, BURIED AMONG THE DESCENDENTS OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, GUARDIAN OF SCOTLAND IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. ()
• WILLIAM AND MARY. ()
• WRITTEN JANUARY FIRST, 1792. ()
• A YOUNG LADY'S LAMENTATION FOR THE LOSS OF HER SISTER BY MARRIAGE. ()
• THE YOUNG MAN'S RESOLUTION. ()

• Little, Janet, 1759-1813. The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid. Air: Printed by John & Peter Wilson, 1792. (ESTC T126549)
  • TO THE COUNTESS OF LOUDOUN.
  • TO THE PUBLIC.
  • TO HOPE.
  • ON HAPPINESS.
  • UPON A YOUNG LADY'S LEAVING LOUDOUN CASTLE.
  • THE FICKLE PAIR.
  • TO A LADY, A PATRONESS OF THE MUSES, ON HER RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS.
  • THE LOTTERY TICKET.
  • THE MONTH'S LOVE.
  • DAMON AND PHILANDER.
  • COLIN AND ALEXIS.
  • ALMEDA AND FLAVIA.
  • ON THE SPRING.
  • WILLIAM AND MARY.
  • LOTHARIO.
  • AMANDA: AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MRS. —, PERSONATING HER HUSBAND.
  • CELIA AND HER LOOKING GLASS.
  • THE UNFORTUNATE RAMBLER.
  • LUCINA: AN ELEGY.
  • THE ENVIED KISS.
  • THE YOUNG MAN'S RESOLUTION.
  • TO A YOUNG MAN UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH FOR FORGERY. FROM HIS MISTRESS.
  • ON AN UNLOOKED-FOR SEPARATION FROM A FRIEND.
  • WRITTEN JANUARY FIRST, 1792.
  • ON A VISIT TO MR. BURNS.
  • GIVEN TO A LADY WHO ASKED ME TO WRITE A POEM.
  • EPISTLE TO NELL, WROTE FROM LOUDOUN CASTLE.
  • NELL'S ANSWER.
  • ANOTHER EPISTLE TO NELL.
  • AN EPISTLE TO A LADY. November, 1789.
  • FROM SNIPE, A FAVOURITE DOG, TO HIS MASTER. May, 1791.
  • ON THE DEATH OF J—. H—. ESQ. JUNE, 1790.
  • ON THE BIRTH OF J—. H—. ESQ.'S SON. NOVEMBER 15, 1790.
  • ON A GENTLEMAN'S PROPOSING TO TRAVEL 300 MILES TO SEE J—. H—. ESQ.'S CHILD.
  • VERSES WRITTEN ON A FOREIGNER'S VISITING THE GRAVE OF A SWISS GENTLEMAN, BURIED AMONG THE DESCENDENTS OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, GUARDIAN OF SCOTLAND IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
  • FROM PHILANDER TO EUMENES.
  • SYLVIA AND ARMEDA.
  • THE CAPTIVATED SOLDIER.
  • ON READING LADY MARY MONTAGUE AND MRS. ROWE'S LETTERS.
  • UPON A YOUNG LADY'S BREAKING A LOOKING-GLASS.
  • AN ACROSTIC UPON A YOUNG WOMAN, WRITTEN BY HER LOVER.
  • AN EXTEMPORARY ACROSTIC.
  • AN EPISTLE TO MR. ROBERT BURNS.
  • TO MY AUNTY.
  • ON HALLOWEEN.
  • ON SEEING MR. — BAKING CAKES.
  • A POEM ON CONTENTMENT. INSCRIBED TO JANET NICOL, A POOR OLD WANDERING WOMAN, WHO LIVES BY THE WALL AT LOUDOUN AND USED SOMETIMES TO BE VISITED BY THE COUNTESS.
  • ALCANZAR.
  • FROM ALONZO TO DELIA.
  • FROM DELIA TO ALONZO.
  • FROM DELIA TO ALONZO. WHO HAD SENT HER A SLIGHTING EPISTLE.
  • FROM FLAVIA TO CARLOS.
  • TO NELL WHEN AT MOFFAT WELL.
  • A YOUNG LADY'S LAMENTATION FOR THE LOSS OF HER SISTER BY MARRIAGE.
  • THE RIVAL SWAINS.
  • TO A LADY WHO SENT THE AUTHOR SOME PAPER WITH A READING OF SILLAR'S POEMS.

Source editions

• Little, Janet, 1759-1813. The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid. Air: Printed by John & Peter Wilson, 1792. (ESTC T126549)

Bibliography

ODNB 40635

Reference works

• Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800. Paperback edition, revised. Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. 199. Print.

Criticism

• Andrews, Corey E. 'Far-fam'd RAB': Scottish labouring-class poets writing in the shadow of Robert Burns, 1785-1792. Studies in Hogg and His World 23 (2013): 41-67. Print.
• Bold, Valentina. Janet Little, “the Scotch Milkmaid” and “peasant poetry”. Scottish Literary Journal 20(2) (1993): 21–30. Print.
• Brown, Hilton. Burns and the Scottish Milkmaid. Burns Chronicle, 2nd ser. 25 (1950): 15–20. Print.
• Davis, Leith. Gender and the Nation in the Work of Robert Burns and Janet Little. Studies In English Literature (Rice) 38(4) (1998): 621-645. Print.
• Ferguson, Moira. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1995. Print. Chapter 6. "Janet Little, the Ayrshire Dairywoman: Gender, Class, and Scottish National Identity"
• Landry, Donna. The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. Print. Chapter 6.
• Milne, Anne. Dogs And The 'Talking Animal Syndrome' In Janet Little's 'From Snipe, A Favourite Dog, To His Master' (1791). Scottish Studies Review 4(1) (2003): 69-81. Print.