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Old Photograph Robin Gray's Cottage Scotland
Old photograph of Robin Gray's Cottage near Elie, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This was the Scottish cottage made famous in a ballad by Lady Anne Lindsay. The ballad is is a sentimental tale of a young Scottish girl forced to marry an elderly gentleman for financial reasons when her lover is thought to have been lost at sea. The lover returns to claim his betrothed but discovers that she intends to remain loyal to her kind but aged husband. Lady Anne Barnard, born 12th December 1750, at Balcarres House, died 6th of May 1825, was the eldest daughter of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres. She was author of the ballad Auld Robin Gray and an accomplished travel writer, artist and socialite of the period. Her five year residence in Cape Town, South Africa, although brief, had a significant impact on the cultural and social life of the time. Reverend William Leeves revealed in 1812 that Auld Robin Gray had been written by her in 1772, and set to music by him. It was published anonymously in 1783, Lady Anne only acknowledging the authorship of the words two years before her death in a letter to Sir Walter Scott.
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