• Helen Craik (c. 1751 – 11 June 1825) was a Scottish poet and novelist. She has been known as a correspondent of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, whom she...
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    improving laird and gentleman architect William Craik (1703–98). His daughter, the poet and novelist Helen Craik (1751–1825), lived there until 1792. She was...
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    Kirkcudbright, Scotland, Craik was the illegitimate son of William Craik, 1703 -1798, an agricultural pioneer and landowner. His half-sister, Helen, writes that he...
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    Clare were three of many. Novels centring on minstrelsy have included Helen Craik's Henry of Northumberland (1800), Sydney Owenson's The Novice of St Dominick's...
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  • (died 1819) Luciano Comella, Spanish dramatist (died 1812) probable year Helen Craik, Scottish novelist and poet (died 1825) Mary Scott, English poet (died...
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  • US) Dilly Court (born 1940, England) Jim Crace (born 1946, England) Helen Craik (c. 1751–1825, Scotland/England) Jasmine Cresswell (born 1941, Wales)...
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    attitude have been drawn between The Wanderer and the early novels of Helen Craik, which she could have read in the 1790s. Burney made £1500 from the first...
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  • his poem "Resolution and Independence", first written 18 months later. Helen Craik – The Hermit's Cell Maria Edgeworth – Castle Rackrent Anne Ford – The...
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  • Birkbeck, American writer and social reformer (born 1764) June 11 – Helen Craik, Scottish novelist and poet (born c. 1751) August 10 – Joseph Harris...
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    derelict at the time it was listed in 1977. The Scottish novelist and poet Helen Craik lived at Flimby Hall from 1792 until her death in 1825 and has a memorial...
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