Jessie Saxby

“{{cite book|author=Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston|title=Joseph Bell; an appreciation by an old friend|year=1913|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier|url=https://archive.org/details/b24868437}}”

“{{cite web|website=Newcastle University|date=19 April 2021|title=Wildie and Lalla —The story of Shetland author Jessie M.E Saxby and her daughter Lalla, is to be told in a new short film written and sound tracked by Newcastle University's Catriona MacDonald|url=https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2021/04/wildieandlalla/}}”

“{{cite web|title=Author: Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby|website=victorianresearch.org|url=https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=3897}}”

“An incantation against nightmare was once used over me by old Mam-Kirsty famed for her witchcraft.”

“We had been dressing the wee lassie one day is a graceful fairy-like {{w|costume}} of Aunt Ellen's devising, and maternal pride gave utterance to some (foolish) remarks about the child's appearance. Very sweetly came the rebuke from childhood's wisdom. "Yes, but it was very good of God to make me pretty."”

“Winds are raging fierce and high,Lurid lightnings wreathe the sky,Thunders roll and night is nigh,Ships 'mid storm-toss'd breakers lie                  At the ocean's will.Little ones there are who weep,Wives who weary vigils keep,When all else have gone to sleep.Father! to yon angry deep                  "Say Thou, Peace, be still."”

“I hear you're such a lazy bird,    You cannot build a {{w|nest}};Perhaps you could, if you would try—    We ought to do our best.The little bird that told me this    Suspected something worse,—That you neglect your little ones,    And put them out to nurse.Oh, Cuckoo! if this story's true,    I think you're much to blame.Then talk no more about yourself;    Go, hide yourself, for shame!”