A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Wardlow, (Lady Elizabeth)

by Mary Matilda Betham

WARDLOW (LADY ELIZABETH),

In the edition of Allan Ramsay's Poems, 1800, the information most important, perhaps, to men of letters, is that which ascertains the author of Hardyknute, which is here justly called an imposing imitation of ancient poetry. The biographer completely proves, that the accomplished authoress of that fragment was Elizabeth, Lady Wardlow, of Pitrevie, in Fife, second daughter of Sir John Halket, Bart. of Pitferron, who was baptized on the 15th of April, 1677, and married to Sir Henry Wardlow, Bart.

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