Margaret Bell's Lament.
[Glasgow] : Printed and sold by James Lindsay, stationer &c., 9 King Street, Glasgow,
[1853?]
Dated from internal evidence - Margaret Bell was, on the 5th January 1853, at Glasgow Circuit Court, convicted of murdering her child the previous November and sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to transportation for life - information from the 'Times Digital Archive' from an article dated Friday, Jan 07, 1853 and from the 'Scotsman Archive' from an article dated 22nd January 1853.
First lines read: Adieu unto Barrhead, and to Neilston also, / Where the river Levern it sweetly does flow, / My poor aged mother, for ever farewell, / An exile for life is your poor Margaret Bell.
In one column with an illustration above the title.
'Tune - Braes of Strathblane'.
Ballads, English
Infanticide
Illegitimate children
Prisoners, Transportation of
Scotland Glasgow.