Catharine Colace Ross, who flourished in
Scotland during the late seventeenth century, is known as a spiritual autobiographer; in fact the contents of her
Memoirs show that throughout her lifetime she used writing as a tool for private and public analysis.
Milestones
The date of CCR's birth (probably at
Edinburgh in the earlier seventeenth century, into a family of several children) is not known. The
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests about 1635, though this year would make her barely fifteen at her marriage.

1735 CCR's autobiography,
Memoirs, or Spiritual Exercises, was posthumously published nearly forty years after her death, at
Edinburgh.
