Christian Milne

Christian Milne (15 May 1773 – after June 1816) was a Scottish poet of the Romantic Era.

Early life Christian Ross was born in Inverness in 1773, the daughter of Thomas Ross and Mary Gordon. According to her, her father was a housewright and a cabinet-maker, and her mother died when she was very young; her father remarried a year later, to Mary Denton. She briefly attended a school in Auchentoul, began rhyming before her teens, and was sent into service at the age of fourteen in Aberdeen.

Career Shortly after her marriage to Patrick Milne, a ship's carpenter, Milne's poetry was shown to a Captain Livingston, a man of influence in Aberdeen, and together with other gentlemen (the Right Reverend Bishop Skinner and Mr. Ewen) he arranged for Milne to have a subscription list of 500 and sales of 600 on her book, which was published in 1805.