she shall walk in silk attire, and siller have to spare, or may I never rise from this bed again!' ". Hugh MacDiarmid praised her in a radio broadcast in 1947, as "this sweet Cumbrian singer". He insisted that her Scottish songs are "the high-water mark of her achievement … so good that they can be set beside the best that have ever been produced by Scotsmen writing in their own tongue". Jonathan Wordsworth, a great-nephew of William Wordsworth, dubbed her, in 1994, "The Poet of Friendship", predicting on BBC Radio Cumbria in 1998 that "Susanna will eventually be seen as important as the other Romantic poets writing during the eighteenth century, and should be more widely read". In The New Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry he likened Blamire's social position to that of Jane Austen: ‘the well-to-do maiden aunt’s life of good works and humorous observation'. Notes References Christopher Hugh Maycock, A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire (1747-94), Hypatia Publications, 2003, ; Christopher Hugh Maycock (edited and introduced by the author with some new material from Professor Paul Betz in his collection of manuscripts, now at the Wordsworth Trust) Selected Poems of Susanna Blamire: Cumberland's Lyrical Poet, Bookcase 2008. [Still available at Books Cumbria.] Christopher Hugh Maycock, Article on Susanna Blamire at Chawton House Library (Early Women's Writing) Online: https://chawtonhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Susanna-Blamire.pdf External links Susanna Blamire at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA) 1747 births 1794 deaths English women poets Lallans poets 18th-century English poets 18th-century English women writers 18th-century English writers People from Dalston, Cumbria Romantic poets