from Chilingham, Blamire befriended the aristocratic Tankerville family: there was talk of a possible marriage between her and the family's eldest son, Lord Ossulton, but the social mores of the milieu prevented the same, and he was sent abroad. She remained unmarried. Blamire was also a friend of the philosopher William Paley. Illness and Death Blamire suffered from a recurrent and severe form of rheumatic heart disease, which killed her at the age of 47. She died on 5 April 1794 in Carlisle and is buried by her own request at Raughton Head chapel. Works Blamire often composed her poetry beside a stream in the garden at her residence at Thackwood. She also played the guitar and the flageolet, which she sometimes played whilst composing. She circulated her work privately, and pinned it to trees, and little of it was published during her lifetime. However, some of her poetry was published in single sheets, anthologies, and magazines, during her lifetime. Anonymously, to the Scots Musical Museum, Blamire contributed songs in Lallans: What ails this Heart o' Mine?, and The Siller Croun (alias And ye shall walk in Silk Attire). With The Waefu' Heart, these three of her works were set to music by Joseph Haydn. These three songs were set to remarkably fitting music by Haydn and can be heard sung on CDs by 'Haydn Trio Eisenstadt' with Lona Anderson, soprano: 'The Siller Croun' (Hob.XXX1a:260; 'The Waefu' Heart' (Hob.XXX1a:9/bis); 'What Ails this Heart o' Mine' (Hob.XX1a:244). Haydn used a German translation of the three lyrics to understand their emotional tone and was given Susanna's original English lyrics for the metre. He pitched the pathos of his music perfectly. Her complete works were first compiled and published, by Patrick Maxwell of Edinburgh and Henry Lonsdale of Carlisle, in 1842, as The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire, The Muse of Cumberland. These two publishers had collected her manuscripts since 1836. Her corpus contains Gothic allegories in Standard English; songs in the Scots dialect, such as What ails this Heart o' Mine; songs in the Cumberland dialect, such as 'Wey, Ned! Man!', which are comparable to poems in the same dialect by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in their Lyrical Ballads; colloquial epistles addressed to friends; and the use of heroic couplets, in Stoklewath or the Cumbrian Village, an intricate depiction of rural life that is her most accomplished poem. Patrick