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Author: Ross, James

Biography:

ROSS, James (d 1830: Blackwood’s Magazine)

He was, as his title pages state, a weaver in Forfar, Angus, but little else is known for certain. A notice in Blackwood’s states that he was 46 at the time of his death, but that does not fit with Ross’s claim that his father died in the American War of Independence. In Angus-shire Chaplet he says he “was sent early to school but was late to acquire knowledge.” His Peep at Parnassus is a vision-poem which, he says, exempts it from authorial responsibility and, therefore, criticism. He also wrote an essay on drunkenness but this has not been located. (BAM; ancestry.co.uk 16 Sept. 2020; findmypast.co.uk 16 Sept. 2020)

 

Books written (2):

Dundee: printed by A. Colville and Co., 1819
Forfar: printed for the author, 1821