Background
She was born in Edinburgh to Isobel (née Dick) and William Bannerman, a "running stationer" licensed to sell ballads in the streets.
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She was born in Edinburgh to Isobel (née Dick) and William Bannerman, a "running stationer" licensed to sell ballads in the streets.
She was part of the Edinburgh literary circle which included John Leyden, Jessie Stewart, and Thomas Campbell, and "remains significant for her Gothic ballads, as well as for her innovative sonnet series and her bold original odes." She was read and admired by Thomas Park, James Currie, Bishop Thomas Percy, Anne Grant, and antiquary Joseph Cooper Walker. Her first volume, Poems (1800), was well regarded but did not sell well. In these two latter Bannerman developed Joanna Baillie"s theory of dramatic composition — her stated intent to focus on the progress of one master passion — and applied it to poetry.
Her second collection, Tales of Superstition and Chivalry (1802) was published anonymously.
lieutenant consisted of ten Gothic ballads and four engravings, and did not fare so well with reviewers, in part because of her penchant for the strain of obscurity and ambiguity within the Gothic tradition. Her ballads were, however, praised by Walter Scott.
Although various of her friends supported her and attempted to procure her a pension, such attempts were largely unsuccessful and she died in debt. Contemporary scholars are rediscovering her work and she is the subject of several recent studies.
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