Robert Burns (Inspirations Biographies) (Free Kindle Book) – By Bronwen Hosie

"Robert Burns, born in 1759 and who died young in 1796, is the national bard of Scotland. His poems and songs are performed and sung the world over to this day. Brought up in a poor farming family, in today’s terms, the young Robbie was a child labourer. He and his brothers and sisters sometimes had barely enough to eat. Yet his father was keen that his sons and daughters read books and had an education.

Later he escaped with his life in a factory fire,…