Introduction

Biography

Mary was the daugh­ter of Ro­bert Lun­die, par­ish min­is­ter of Kel­so, and Ma­ry Grey; sis­ter-in-law to Ho­ra­ti­us Bonar; and wife of Will­iam Wall­ace Dun­can, par­ish min­is­ter of Cleish, Kin­ross­shire (mar­ried 1836).

Her hymns, most­ly writ­ten for her child­ren be­tween Ju­ly and De­cem­ber 1839, ap­peared in 1841, in her post­hu­mous Me­moir, by her mo­ther. They were re-is­sued in 1842 as Rhymes for My Child­ren.