Adam, JEAN, a Scottish poetess, was born near Greenock in 1710, and died in the Glasgow poor-house in 1765, after a joyless life, first as school-mistress, then as hawker. Her Poems (1734), religious effusions in the Tate and Brady style, by no means support the claim advanced for her to the authorship of 'There's nae Luck aboot the House,' which, with much more likelihood, is ascribed to Mickel. See a long article in Athenceum for 27th January 1877.
Adam, JEAN
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 46
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