Margaret Calderwood

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MC , living and writing in the eighteenth century, is remembered for her travel journal (which grew out of letters to her daughter). As a Scotswoman she reports on the foreign country of England as well as on continental Europe. She also composed a manual of estate management (based on the journal in which she recorded her management of her husband's property) and a novel which, however, she did not publish.
  • BirthName: Margaret Steuart
  • Married: Calderwood
Painting of Margaret Calderwood, she is wearing a low cut brown dress and has a blue scarf over her left arm. The background is also a shade of brown, and her hair is black.

Milestones

1715

Margaret Steuart, later MC , was born.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1774

MC died, only eight months after her husband 's death had left her a widow.
Calderwood, Margaret. “L’envoi”. Letters and Journals, edited by Alexander Fergusson, David Douglas, 1884, pp. 353-78.
374

1842

Extracts from MC 's travel journal-letters were privately printed for the Maitland Club , sharing a volume with writings by the eighteenth-century Sir Archibald Steuart Denham and the nineteenth-century James Dennistoun .
Calderwood, Margaret. “To the Reader; Introductory Chapter”. Letters and Journals, edited by Alexander Fergusson, David Douglas, 1884, p. vii - lviii.
xi

1884

Alexander Fergusson published at EdinburghLetters and Journals of Mrs. Calderwood of Polton.
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Biography

Birth

1715

Margaret Steuart, later MC , was born.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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