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 She may have also produced some unpublished poetry and an essay (or essays) on Jersey in the Channel Islands while she was young, but details about these, as about much else in her life, remain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.
  • BirthName: Elizabeth Kerr
  • Nickname: Lizzie
  • Married: Colville; Coulson
  • Pseudonyms: Lizzie Lothian; Roxburghe 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.
    Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

  • Indexed: E. K. Coulson

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, 1877, p. v - xxiii.
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Lothian, Roxburghe, and Edward Foster Coulson. Lizzie Lothian. C. Kegan Paul, 1877.
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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, 1877, 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

Heritage and Early History

Probably early 1819

RL was born Elizabeth Kerr, her parents' first child.
Coulson, Edward Foster, and Roxburghe Lothian. “Introduction”. Lizzie Lothian, C. Kegan Paul, 1877, p. v - xxiii.
xvi
Lothian, Roxburghe, and Edward Foster Coulson. Lizzie Lothian. C. Kegan Paul, 1877.
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