Female drummer: And The blue bell of Scotland.

ID 16014
Title Female drummer: And The blue bell of Scotland.
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Signed Author Anonymous
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Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination 1
Date of Publication 1814
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Colophon
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Location of Printing Boston US
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Length (cm) 30
Width (cm) 21
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Notes AAS Notes:
Poem and song.
Female drummer, first lines: A maiden I was at the age of sixteen, from my parents run away and a soldier I became.
The blue bells of Scotland, attributed to Dorothy Jordan in Philbrick, Thomas L. "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258; first line: Oh where, and oh where is your highland laddie gone?
American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 46, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814. Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, cf. Ford, W.C. The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924.
Text in two columns; printed area measures 26.1 x 17.0 cm.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, ballads, &c. printed in Massachusetts, 1639-1800,
Ford, W.C. Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads,
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Jordan, Dorothy. Female drummer: And The blue bell of Scotland.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 16014, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/16014. Accessed 2025-11-20.

Jordan, Dorothy. Female drummer: And The blue bell of Scotland. Boston: 1814. 

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