Christian Isobel Johnstone
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Standard Name: Johnstone, Christian Isobel
Birth Name: Christian Isobel Tod
Used Form: Christian Isobel Todd
Married Name: Christian Isobel McLeish
Married Name: Christian Isobel McLiesh
Married Name: Christian Isobel Johnstone
Pseudonym: The Author of Clan-Albin
Pseudonym: Aunt Jane
Pseudonym: Margaret Dods
is remarkable both for her pioneering of the Scottish national tale (in the early nineteenth century, neck and neck with
) and for her long-continuing career in journalism, as contributor and editor (the latter role unprecedented for one of her sex). Her non-fiction for adults ranged from cookery to the politics of resistance. She also wrote children's books both fictional and non-fictional.
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Texts
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Clan-Albin. Second, Macredie, Skelly, and Muckersy, 1815, 4 vols.
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd, 1828.
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Elizabeth de Bruce. Blackwood, 1827, 3 vols.
Johnstone, John, 1779 - 1857, and Christian Isobel Johnstone. Johnstone’s Edinburgh Magazine. J. Johnstone and Mrs. Johnstone.
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier. Oliver and Boyd, 1831.
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. “Miss Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy”. Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol.
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, pp. 612-18. Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Nights of the Round Table. J. Johnstone, 1832.
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Rational Reading Lessons. 1842.
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Scenes of Industry Displayed in the Bee-Hive and the Ant-Hill. J. Harris, 1827.
Johnstone, Christian Isobel, editor. Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine. W. Tait, 32 vols.
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. The Cook and Housewife’s Manual. Oliver and Boyd, 1826.
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. The Edinburgh Tales. W. Tait, 1846, 3 vols.
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. The Public Buildings of Westminster Described. J. Harris.
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. The Saxon and the Gael. T. Tegg, 1814, 4 vols.
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. The Wars of the Jews. Harris and Son, 1823.
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. True Tales of the Irish Peasantry as Related by Themselves. P. Brown, 1836.