Agnes Maclehose

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Agnes Maclehose, also known by the pseudonym "Clarinda," was a Scottish woman best remembered for her intense, epistolary romantic friendship with poet Robert Burns in the late 18th century.

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Label Occurrences
Agnes Maclehose canonical 2

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf correspondent
human
muse
alsoKnownAs Mrs. Maclehose
Nancy
archivesAt National Library of Scotland
correspondentOf Robert Burns
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
Scotland
dateOfBirth 1758
dateOfDeath 1841
ethnicGroup Scottish people
familyName Maclehose
floruit late 18th century
genre letters
romantic correspondence
givenName Agnes
hasCanonicalName Agnes Maclehose self-link
hasInfluenceOn reception of Robert Burns’s love poetry
hasLiteraryRole addressee of Robert Burns’s love poems
hasPseudonymousIdentity Clarinda in Burns’s correspondence
hasSignificantConnection Robert Burns
hasTheme emotional intimacy through letters
platonic love
romantic friendship
inspired Ae Fond Kiss
Clarinda, mistress of my soul
To Clarinda, on Hearing She Was Ill
languageOfWorkOrName English
Scots
maritalStatus separated from husband
movement Romanticism
notableEvent meeting Robert Burns in Edinburgh in 1787
notableFor correspondence with Robert Burns
epistolary romantic friendship with Robert Burns
notableWork letters to Robert Burns
occupation letter writer
participantIn Scottish Enlightenment social circles
placeOfBirth Glasgow
placeOfDeath Edinburgh
pseudonym Clarinda
religion Presbyterian
surface form: Presbyterianism
residence Edinburgh
sexOrGender female
socialClass middle class
spouse James Maclehose

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Instruction
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# Requirements
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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Agnes Maclehose
Description of subject: Agnes Maclehose, also known by the pseudonym "Clarinda," was a Scottish woman best remembered for her intense, epistolary romantic friendship with poet Robert Burns in the late 18th century.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh burialPlaceOf Agnes Maclehose
subject surface form: Canongate Kirkyard
Agnes Maclehose hasCanonicalName Agnes Maclehose self-link