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Marie Maitland (d. 1596) is affiliated with one extant manuscript verse miscellany: the Maitland Quarto (MS 1408). This manuscript was compiled in c. 1586 and is written in Older Scots. Maitland’s name is written twice on the first folio. The Quarto includes verse by Maitland’s father, Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington (1496–1586), as well as other Scottish writers such as Alexander Arbuthnot, Alexander Montgomerie, and James VI/I. It also contains several anonymous lyrics: Poem 69 alludes to Marie Maitland’s role as the transcriber of the Quarto; Poem 85 (“To Your Self”) describes “Maistres Marie” as a “plesant poet perfyte” and compares her to Sappho. Modern scholars have attributed the anonymous female-voiced lyric, Poem 49, to Marie Maitland as it exalts love between women and dovetails with “To Your Self’s” veneration of “Maistres Marie” as a “saphic” poet.
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Chowdhury, S. (2021). Maitland, Marie. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_308-1
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