Background
According to her, her father was a housewright and a cabinet-maker, and her mother died when she was very young. Her father remarried a year later, to Mary Denton.
According to her, her father was a housewright and a cabinet-maker, and her mother died when she was very young. Her father remarried a year later, to Mary Denton.
Her parents were poor but the little schooling she had, she used to good accountant She began rhyming before her teens and was sent into service at the age of fourteen in Aberdeen. She had eight children and although she apparently still wrote poetry she had no further work published.
An interview and poem by her is included in Sketches of obscure poets, with specimens of their writings.