Catherine Sinclair
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Standard Name: Sinclair, Catherine
Edinburgh philanthropist, but as a writer she is best remembered for her Evangelical fiction aimed at young people or children, such as Modern Accomplishments (1836), Modern Society (1837), and Holiday House: A Series of Tales (1839). She also wrote three books based on her travels around Great Britain, as well as several advice or conduct books with a strong Protestant emphasis. Although many of her texts have heavy anti-Catholic themes,
is ultimately remembered for didactic texts that still appeal to the child's imagination.
was perhaps best known during her lifetime as a prominent Timeline
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Texts
Sinclair, Catherine. Beatrice; or, The Unknown Relatives. R. Bentley, 1852, 3 vols.
Sinclair, Catherine. Charlie Seymour. Robert Carter, 1847.
Sinclair, Catherine. Hill and Valley. William Whyte and Co., 1838.
Sinclair, Catherine. Holiday House. Whyte; Carter, 1839.
Sinclair, Catherine. Holiday House: A Series of Tales. James Wood; Houlston & Wright, and Greenwood & Co.; D. Bryce, 1865.
Sinclair, Catherine. Jane Bouverie. W. Whyte, 1846.
Sinclair, Catherine. London Homes. Richard Bentley, 1853.
Sinclair, Catherine. Memoir of Sir John Sinclair. William and Roberts Chambers, 1853.
Sinclair, Catherine. Modern Accomplishments. 1st ed., Waugh and Innes, 1836.
Sinclair, Catherine. Modern Accomplishments. 4th ed., W. Whyte and co, 1837.
Sinclair, Catherine. Modern Flirtations. Stringer and Townsend, 1841.
Sinclair, Catherine. Modern Flirtations. W. Whyte, 1841.
Sinclair, Catherine. Modern Society. First Ed., William Whyte & Co.; James Nisbet & Co., 1837.
Sinclair, Catherine. Popish Legends, or, Bible Truths. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852, http://https://archive.org/details/popishlegendsor00sincgoog.
Sinclair, Catherine. Scotland and the Scotch. D. Appleton & Co., 1840.
Sinclair, Catherine. Shetland and the Shetlanders. D. Appleton and Co., 1840.
Sinclair, Catherine. The Journey of Life. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847, http://https://archive.org/stream/journeylife01sincgoog#page/n6/mode/2up.
Sinclair, Catherine. The Journey of Life. Fifth, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850, http://https://books.google.ca/books?id=YrQEAQAAIAAJ.
Sinclair, Catherine. “The Murder Hole: An Ancient Legend”. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol.
25
, William Blackwood, pp. 189-92.