Lady Louisa Stuart

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Standard Name: Stuart, Lady Louisa
Birth Name: Louisa Stuart
Styled: Lady Louisa Stuart
LLS , writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, published almost nothing deliberately. It was mostly after her death that her writings filtered into print. Her poems show an acute and original mind. Her letters and memoirs show, besides their fluency and charm, the powers of a literary critic and cultural historian.
Photograph of a sketch of Lady Louisa Stuart in old age by Sir George Hayter. She sits solitary, wearing a simple dark dress and lacy cap, in a small, dimly lit room with curtains draped in the window, in a large chair at a table strewn with books and other objects. She is hunched over one book, holding it very close to her eyes in the effort of reading. An inscription below, in capitals, names sitter, artist, and owner.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Joanna Baillie
Mary Berry and Anne Damer both offered comments and revisions four years before this play was published. Lady Louisa Stuart did the same (through Walter Scott) in 1809.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 158-9, 244
Slagle, editor of JB
Textual Production Mary Julia Young
The poem is dedicated by their sincere admirer, the author, to those, whose dramatic excellence suggested it.
Young, Mary Julia. Genius and Fancy; or, Dramatic Sketches. H. D. Symonds and J. Gray.
1792, prelims
MJY did not claim it with her name until its re-issue with other poems in 1795...
Textual Production Susan Tweedsmuir
Susan Buchan (later ST ) chose as a biographical subject another collateral ancestor in Lady Louisa Stuart : Her Memories and Portraits.
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.
Textual Production Caroline Scott
Lady Louisa Stuart reported that its anonymity was widely seen through. To the private ear of a friend she confessed: I cannot get over my old—perhaps aristocratic—prejudices, which make it a loss of caste.
Watson, J. Steven et al. “Introduction”. Memoire of Frances, Lady Douglas, edited by Jill Rubenstein, Scottish Academic Press, 1985.
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