Christian Isobel Johnstone

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Standard Name: Johnstone, Christian Isobel
Birth Name: Christian Isobel Tod
Used Form: Christian Isobel Todd
Married Name: Christian Isobel McLeish
Married Name: Christian Isobel McLiesh
Married Name: Christian Isobel Johnstone
Pseudonym: The Author of Clan-Albin
Pseudonym: Aunt Jane
Pseudonym: Margaret Dods
CIJ is remarkable both for her pioneering of the Scottish national tale (in the early nineteenth century, neck and neck with Sir Walter Scott ) and for her long-continuing career in journalism, as contributor and editor (the latter role unprecedented for one of her sex). Her non-fiction for adults ranged from cookery to the politics of resistance. She also wrote children's books both fictional and non-fictional.

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Textual Production Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott published another novel by the author of Waverley, St. Ronan's Well; within a couple of years Christian Isobel Johnstone borrowed the name of one of its characters.
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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Isabella Spence
Spence's title-page bears a quotation from James Cririe , a little-known Scots poet whom Burns had praised (and whom she cites several times later in her text). Perhaps for the sake of her original audience...

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