John Johnstone

CIJ died at her Edinburgh home, of bronchitis and heart disease; her husband followed her only about two months later.

They edited the Inverness Courier together from October 1817 (at a joint annual salary of a hundred pounds). From 1827 CIJ was the editor, while her husband and William Blackwood were owners, of the Edinburgh...

Seven months after her divorce, Christian Isobel McLiesh married John Johnstone , then a schoolmaster at Dunfermline in Fife, who later ran a printing business.

CIJ moved with her husband from Dunfermline to Inverness soon after their marriage, and in 1823 or 1824 to Edinburgh, where John ran a printing business at 19 St James's Street.

CIJ was involved in a number of journalistic endeavours with her husband . She applied her skills when they jointly edited the Inverness Courier, which she made into a literary journal, then on her...