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A fascinating account of how ‘the other half’ lived in the 1800s in Scotland appears in Lucy Bethia Colquhoun’s autobiography ‘Recollections Of A Scottish Novelist’ (1915)
Lucy Bethia Colquhoun was born on 17 April 1845 at Portobello, a seaside resort near Edinburgh, the seventh child of John Colquhoun (1805–1885) of Luss, Dunbartonshire, author of The Moor and the Loch, and Frances Sarah Fuller Maitland (1813–1877), a poet and hymn writer. Her paternal grandmother, Janet Colquhoun (1781–1846), was a religious writer, and an aunt, Catherine Sinclair (1800–1864) was a prolific novelist and children's writer.
Lucy Bethia Colquhoun was thus a Great Grand Daughter of Sir John Sinclair of Caithness and as we have a page about him on the site I decided to add this to that page so scroll about half way down to find it.
I might add that in the first chapter she mentions a couple of books that she enjoyed as a child and at the time of writing she still felt that they were good books for children to read. I did a search for them and found a couple which I've also added to the page.
As we already have the book "The Moor and the Loch" up on the site I've also provided a link to it.
You can get to all this at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...clair_john.htm
Alastair
Lucy Bethia Colquhoun was born on 17 April 1845 at Portobello, a seaside resort near Edinburgh, the seventh child of John Colquhoun (1805–1885) of Luss, Dunbartonshire, author of The Moor and the Loch, and Frances Sarah Fuller Maitland (1813–1877), a poet and hymn writer. Her paternal grandmother, Janet Colquhoun (1781–1846), was a religious writer, and an aunt, Catherine Sinclair (1800–1864) was a prolific novelist and children's writer.
Lucy Bethia Colquhoun was thus a Great Grand Daughter of Sir John Sinclair of Caithness and as we have a page about him on the site I decided to add this to that page so scroll about half way down to find it.
I might add that in the first chapter she mentions a couple of books that she enjoyed as a child and at the time of writing she still felt that they were good books for children to read. I did a search for them and found a couple which I've also added to the page.
As we already have the book "The Moor and the Loch" up on the site I've also provided a link to it.
You can get to all this at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...clair_john.htm
Alastair