‘Christian Carstairs’

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• Addressed to a BEECH TREE, on observing that some of its Leaves were tinged by the Smoke of a Fire that had been kindled under it. ()
• A BALLAD. ()
• BASKET of FLOWERS. SONG. ()
• A DREAM. ()
• Earl of ELGIN's death. ()
• EPITAPH. ()
• EPITAPH. ()
• EPITAPH. For Alexander Wedderburn, Esq; St Germains. ()
• EVENING. ()
• FALSEHOOD — TRUTH ()
• Impudence caressed — Merit neglected. ()
• [In a triumphal car] ()
• [IN shades! to pass the summer day] ()
• A Lady in the Character of a Nymph. To the Corsican Warrior at Shakespeare's Jubilee. ()
• A NEW YEAR's GIFT. ()
• On seeing Lady H— after the Death of a favourite Daughter. ()
• On the arrival of the Ship from Messina in the Island of Sicily, with the Corple of the late Earl of Morton. ()
• On the Death of André. ()
• [OUR Scottish dames for virtue still be fam'd;] ()
• PASTORAL. ()
• [QUEEN MARY.] ()
• [Scarce a breeze on the lake, with four oars to our boat;] ()
• A SONG, to the Tune of “Here awa, there awa.” ()
• SONG. ()
• The three following beautiful Stanzas by Miss A. H. to the Author. ()
• To a Brother of the Author's. ()
• To a young Lady who was going to India. ()
• To Lady H—n. ()
• To Miss A. H—. ()
• To Miss M— B. ()
• To — Esq; Member of the Capillaire Club. ()
• To —. ()
• Wrote as if repeated extempore by a Gentleman, occasioned by a Miniature Picture of a Lady being put up as a But to shoot at in Germany the time of the last war. ()
• Wrote some Months after the Accounts of my Brother's Death, who was killed in Action, July 1st 1763, near to Patna in Bengal. ()
• Wrote the week before my Father was to be informed of my Brother's death. ()

• Carstairs, Christian. Original Poems. By a Lady, Dedicated to Miss Ann Henderson. A Tribute to Gratitude and Friendships. Edinburgh: Andrew Shortrede, 1786. (ESTC T76883)
  • A NEW YEAR's GIFT.
  • BASKET of FLOWERS. SONG.
  • PASTORAL.
  • On seeing Lady H— after the Death of a favourite Daughter.
  • A DREAM.
  • [QUEEN MARY.]
  • Addressed to a BEECH TREE, on observing that some of its Leaves were tinged by the Smoke of a Fire that had been kindled under it.
  • Wrote some Months after the Accounts of my Brother's Death, who was killed in Action, July 1st 1763, near to Patna in Bengal.
  • EPITAPH.
  • Wrote the week before my Father was to be informed of my Brother's death.
  • Earl of ELGIN's death.
  • On the arrival of the Ship from Messina in the Island of Sicily, with the Corple of the late Earl of Morton.
  • EPITAPH. For Alexander Wedderburn, Esq; St Germains.
  • To Lady H—n.
  • [IN shades! to pass the summer day]
  • To a Brother of the Author's.
  • The three following beautiful Stanzas by Miss A. H. to the Author.
  • To Miss A. H—.
  • [Scarce a breeze on the lake, with four oars to our boat;]
  • Wrote as if repeated extempore by a Gentleman, occasioned by a Miniature Picture of a Lady being put up as a But to shoot at in Germany the time of the last war.
  • A BALLAD.
  • EVENING.
  • [OUR Scottish dames for virtue still be fam'd;]
  • SONG.
  • A SONG, to the Tune of “Here awa, there awa.”
  • A Lady in the Character of a Nymph. To the Corsican Warrior at Shakespeare's Jubilee.
  • To —.
  • FALSEHOOD — TRUTH
  • Impudence caressed — Merit neglected.
  • To Miss M— B.
  • To a young Lady who was going to India.
  • To — Esq; Member of the Capillaire Club.
  • On the Death of André.
  • [In a triumphal car]
  • EPITAPH.

Source editions

• Carstairs, Christian. Original Poems. By a Lady, Dedicated to Miss Ann Henderson. A Tribute to Gratitude and Friendships. Edinburgh: Andrew Shortrede, 1786. (ESTC T76883)

Biographical note

According to Roger Lonsdale, conceivably Mrs. Grizel Carstairs (d. 1794), daughter of James Bruce Carstairs of Kinross in Fife (d. 1768), who is said to have become a governess.

Bibliography

Editions

• Lonsdale, Roger, ed. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989. 267-269. Print.

Criticism

• Perkins, Pamela. Christian Carstairs. ProQuest, 2002. Web. 18 February 2020. https://search.proquest.com/lion/docview/2352938242