JWC
's mother, Grace Welsh
, had the same birth and married names; yet she was no relation of her husband. Her family considered themselves descendants of the Scots national hero William Wallace
.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press.
8: 229
Education
Jane Porter
Their mother, when she was widowed, moved her family to Edinburgh in 1780, partly for the sake of the future advantage of a good education at a moderate expense. In Scotland, wrote JP
later, a...
