Anne Bannerman

Anne Bannerman ( born October 31, 1765 in Edinburgh, † September 29, 1829 in Porto Bello ) was a British poet of the Romantic period.

Anne Bannerman was born in 1765 in Edinburgh, the daughter of William Bannerman and Isobel Dick. She has published her poems in periodicals such as the Monthly Magazine, the Poetical Register and Edinburgh Magazine. Her first poetry book, Poems, appeared in 1800 and has been highly praised by the critics, but remained, as all their publications, without commercial success. Was less well received her second band Tales of Superstition and Chivalry, published in 1802. Both volumes were published in 1807 about employees form under the title Poems, A New Edition. Anne Bannerman was instructed by her brother's death on the support of their literary admirers. She died in 1829 in debt in the Scottish seaside resort of Porto Bello. Bannerman was ignored by posterity long time.