Frances Erskine, Countess of Mar

LMWM wrote her surviving letters on London society to her sister Lady Mar , exiled in Paris.

LMWM 's lifelong diary was burned in two instalments. When she eloped she left the early portion behind, and her sister burned it lest it should fall into her father 's hands. Just before she...

Montagu in her travel book shows herself an acute observer of the various Christian European cultures, as well as of Islamic Europe and Turkey, and the classically-haunted Mediterranean. She tends to approve Protestant...

WMCN 's early and close relationship with her sister-in-law Mary, Countess of Traquair , née Maxwell, suffered vicissitudes over the years through her poverty and her husband's shameless requests for money. In 1718 the Traquairs...

At almost every stage of GM 's life, her family had the habit of spending part of their time at their London house, where she evidently moved in literary as well as fashionable circles. She...

LMWM 's sister Lady Mar arrived in London from Paris.

LMWM 's deranged sister, Frances, Lady Mar , was abducted and carried off by agents of her brother-in-law Lord Grange , in pursuit of his own financial interest.

LMWM 's deranged sister Lady Mar was placed under her guardianship.

LMWM 's closest sister, Frances , was married in 1714 to John Erskine, Earl of Mar . He led the first Jacobite rebellion to disaster in 1715 (leaving his wife and one-day-old daughter for this...