Catharine Colace Ross

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CCR , who flourished in Scotland during the late seventeenth century, is known as a spiritual autobiographer; in fact the contents of her Memoirs show that throughout her lifetime she used writing as a tool for private and public analysis.
  • BirthName: Catharine Colace
    The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography spells her birth-name Katherine Collace. The spelling followed here comes from her posthumously published memoirs.

  • Married: Ross

Milestones

10 July 1697

CCR died at Edinburgh.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1735

CCR 's autobiography, Memoirs, or Spiritual Exercises, was posthumously published nearly forty years after her death, at Edinburgh.
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.

Biography

The date of CCR 's birth (probably at Edinburgh in the earlier seventeenth century, into a family of several children) is not known. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests about 1635, though this year would make her barely fifteen at her marriage.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

A Life of Faith