Roxburghe Lothian

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RL 's oeuvre consists of two major works: a historical fiction published shortly before her death in 1876, and an autobiographical romance that appeared posthumously. She may have also produced some unpublished poetry and an essay (or essays) on Jersey in the Channel Islands while she was young, but details about these, as about much else in her life, remain uncertain.

Milestones

Probably early 1819

RL was born Elizabeth Kerr, her parents' first child.
Coulson, Edward Foster, and Roxburghe Lothian. “Introduction”. Lizzie Lothian, C. Kegan Paul, p. v - xxiii.
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Lothian, Roxburghe, and Edward Foster Coulson. Lizzie Lothian. C. Kegan Paul.
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Probably early 1876

Only three weeks before RL 's death there appeared her historical novel Dante and Beatrice, from 1282 to 1290. A Romance.
RL 's widower states that this book was published at the end of 1876, three weeks before she died. Lothian's death, however, occured on 23 January 1876.
Coulson, Edward Foster, and Roxburghe Lothian. “Introduction”. Lizzie Lothian, C. Kegan Paul, p. v - xxiii.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The Edinburgh Review. A. and C. Black.
143 (1876): 490

23 January 1876

Three weeks after her novel Dante and Beatrice appeared, RL died of unknown causes at the present Bellaport Old Hall, near the village of Norton in Hales in Shropshire (which is in turn near Market Drayton).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

She chose her first pseudonym from her father's family, and her second from the families of her mother and father combined.
Coulson, Edward Foster, and Roxburghe Lothian. “Introduction”. Lizzie Lothian, C. Kegan Paul, p. v - xxiii.
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The Dukes of Roxburghe, whose family name was Ker, took their title from the town of Roxburgh. The antiquarian, literary Roxburghe Club (which was formed following the auction of the third Duke of Roxburghe 's book collection in 1812) published the correspondence of two of RL 's ancestors: the first Earl of Ancram and the third earl of Lothian.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under John Ker, third Duke of Roxburghe

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