Alicia Cockburn

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Periods of American Literature

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Was Johnny Appleseed a Real Person?

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5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds

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Timeline of the Titanic’s Final Hours

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Mind-Altering Plants

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The Fastest Animals on Earth

Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"

How Deadly Is Quicksand?

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6 Wars of Independence

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Also Known As	Alison Cockburn
Born	October 8, 1713 • Scotland
Died	November 22, 1794 (aged 81) • Edinburgh • Scotland
Notable Works	“Flowers of the Forest”

Ian Maclaren

Scottish author

Robert Louis Stevenson

British author

Robert Burns

Scottish poet

Sir Walter Scott

Scottish writer

Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Tobias Smollett

Scottish novelist

J.M. Barrie

Scottish author

William Dunbar

Scottish poet

Allan Ramsay

Scottish poet

Gawin Douglas

Scottish bishop and poet

Lyndsay, drawing after a woodcut on the title page of Lyndsay's Workes, 1634

Sir David Lyndsay

Scottish poet

Lockhart, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1830

John Gibson Lockhart

Scottish biographer

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir

British statesman and author

Neil Miller Gunn

Scottish author

Beattie, detail of an engraving by William Ridley after a portrait by an unknown artist

James Beattie

Scottish poet

A.J. Cronin

British author

Hugh MacDiarmid

Scottish poet

Alasdair Gray

Scottish novelist, playwright, and artist

Robert Henryson

Scottish author

John Galt

Scottish author and administrator

Harry The Minstrel

Scottish writer

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