Catherine Sinclair

17 April 1800 - 06 August 1864

Standard Name: Sinclair, Catherine

CS was perhaps best known during her lifetime as a prominent Edinburgh philanthropist, but as a writer she is best remembered for her Evangelical fiction aimed at young people or children, such as Modern Accomplishments (1836), Modern Society (1837), and Holiday House: A Series of Tales (1839). She also wrote three books based on her travels around Great Britain, as well as several advice or conduct books with a strong Protestant emphasis. Although many of her texts have heavy anti-Catholic themes, CS is ultimately remembered for didactic texts that still appeal to the child's imagination.

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Education	Anne Ridler	Her education began with her mother and a governess. At six she began attending a class run by the sister of another Rugby master. Later came visits to a piano teacher, and at home a...
Education	Lucy Walford	Typically for her class, the young Lucy Colquhoun was placed in the care of a nurse, whom she referred to as Mistress Aitken. She was educated at home by two German governesses, Fräulein Emma Lindemann
Family and Intimate relationships	Lucy Walford	Janet, Lady Colquhoun (née Sinclair), kept a diary for forty years. After her health began to decline, she became the author of five published evangelical texts, from the first, Despair and Hope (1822, anonymous and...
Family and Intimate relationships	Lucy Walford	Catherine Sinclair , a children's writer and novelist, was LW 's great-aunt (the younger sister, by a second marriage, of her maternal grandmother). LW praised Sinclair's work in Recollections of a Scottish Novelist: Catherine...
Intertextuality and Influence	Lucy Walford	In Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, LW records her early love of literature. The books she read as a child, especially at the age of seven—including Charlotte Yonge 's The Little Duke, works...

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