Mudcat Café message #3629224

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Thread #154641 Message #3629224
Posted By: Lighter
30-May-14 - 05:23 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Flowers of the Forest (Jane Elliot)
Subject: RE: Origins: The Flowers of the Forest (Jean Elliot)

I believe her name is more correctly "Jane Elliot." (Certainly not "Lady Jane Elliot," as some think.)

Elliot seems to have written the poem between 1756 and 1772. It first appeared in print anonymously and inaccurately in 1775.

In any case, it isn't a "folksong dating back to the battle of Flodden Field in 1513," as an LP sleeve put it many years ago.