Caroline Scott

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CS published three anonymous novels over a span of almost thirty years, beginning under the patronage of her novelist cousin Lady Charlotte Bury . Meanwhile she had become an Evangelical Christian, who put her fervent belief into her final novel, and went on to books of direct religious instruction, published under her name. The first, a work of theology, appeared during her lifetime, and the other two, of instructional acrostics for children, after her death.
  • BirthName: Caroline Lucy Douglas
    Remarkably, her second Christian name was that of her father's deceased first wife. She was born with the surname of Douglas, though her birthname is sometimes given as Stewart. This was her father's original surname, but he changed it to Douglas more than twenty years before her birth.
    Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

  • Married: Lady Scott
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Milestones

16 February 1784

Caroline Lucy Douglas (later CS ) was born in Stratford Place, London, into a titled family which had been immensely controversial twenty years before her birth. She was her parents' eldest child.
Stuart, Lady Louisa, and J. Steven Watson. Memoire of Frances, Lady Douglas. Editor Rubenstein, Jill, Scottish Academic Press, 1985.
99-100
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

By July 1828

CS published her first, anonymous novel, A Marriage in High Life, which was billed as edited by the authoress of Flirtation—meaning Scott's cousin the successful novelist Lady Charlotte Bury .
It was a different Caroline Scott who published Hermione; or, The Defaulter, a 2-volume novel, with the Minerva Press in 1816.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 436
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 672

19 April 1857

CS died at a little over seventy, at Petersham in Surrey.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1860

A book of Bible-based pedagogy by Caroline Scott appeared posthumously, with her name: Incentives to Bible Study. Scripture Acrostics. A Sabbath Pastime for Young Persons.
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

Birth and Family

16 February 1784

Caroline Lucy Douglas (later CS ) was born in Stratford Place, London, into a titled family which had been immensely controversial twenty years before her birth. She was her parents' eldest child.
Stuart, Lady Louisa, and J. Steven Watson. Memoire of Frances, Lady Douglas. Editor Rubenstein, Jill, Scottish Academic Press, 1985.
99-100
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

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