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under George Baillie
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Education | Grisell Murray | According to the extensive records kept by her mother, Grisell Baillie
, the education of both the Baillie girls, Grisell and Rachel, was generously sponsored by their parents, who hired a number of tutors over... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grisell Murray | Lady Grisell Baillie
, who had been a heroine of the Covenanter movement as a girl and whose elder daughter, GM
, wrote memoirs of both her parents, died. She was buried next to her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grisell Murray | Lady Grisell or Grizell Hume
, later Baillie, was the daughter of Scottish Covenanter
Sir Patrick Hume (later Earl of Marchmont). Born on Christmas Day in 1665 at Redbraes Castle in Berwickshire, Grisell played... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grisell Murray | As Grisell Baillie
's story makes clear, her father, Sir Patrick Hume, later Earl of Marchmont
, Grisell Murray's maternal grandfather, was an important figure in Scotland, a national and religious (Presbyterian) leader. So was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grisell Murray | George was part of William of Orange
's 1689 expedition to claim the throne of England, which was almost shipwrecked on the way. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George Baillie |
Occupation | Elisabeth Wast | Back in Edinburgh she worked for the pious and highly political family of George Baillie
of Jerviswood at their estate of Mellerstain. Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 1724. 207-8 Lady Grisell Baillie
, George's wife, was the author of many... |
Publishing | Grisell Murray | |
Textual Features | Joanna Baillie | JB
said she admired her heroine Lady Grisell
(whose story she wrote in a few weeks during the winter of 1816-17) beyond any Female Character I ever knew or read of. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 1: 168 |
Textual Production | Carolina Oliphant Lady Nairne | Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committee McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol. 47 , No. 2/3, 1 June–30 Nov. 2006, pp. 253-87. 258 |
Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | After JB
's visit to Scotland, she published Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters, which included poems on William Wallace
and the woman she calls Lady Griseld Baillie
. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 1: 168 Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 4, 1998, pp. 469-00. 492n28 Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 24 (1821): 572 |
Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | This novel was the fruit of careful research: based not, like her earlier historical novels, on an already digested historical narrative, but on a mass of first-hand archival material, and first-hand experience of living Scottish... |
Textual Production | Grisell Murray | GM
, at Mellerstain in the Scottish Borders, began writing Facts Relating to my Mother's Life and Character, a longer, more connected, and more emotional account of her mother, Lady Grisell Baillie
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Tytler | The book is prefaced by a glossary which informs the reader that Edinburgh is nicknamed Auld Reekie, that to gowl is to weep noisily, to rug and rive is to carry off by violence... |
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