Her letters present a vivid account of Edinburgh life in the later eighteenth century, and go into detail on more personal topics like the way she used physical exertion to counter gloom and melancholy. Many...
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Alison Cockburn
On 29 March in probably 1775 she thanked the Rev. Robert Douglas
for amending her words: I am very certain that no woman ought to write anything but from the heart to the heart; never...
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Alison Cockburn
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, who had been writing of herself as old for something like twenty years, composed the last of her printed letters, to the Rev. Robert Douglas
.
Cockburn, Alison. Letters and Memoirs. Editor Craig-Brown, Thomas, David Douglas.
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Alison Cockburn
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wrote down A Short Account of a Long Life in a letter to the Rev. Robert Douglas
(1747 - 1820) of Galashiels.
Ewan, Elizabeth et al. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women : From the Earliest Times to 2004. Edinburgh University Press.
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Cockburn, Alison. Letters and Memoirs. Editor Craig-Brown, Thomas, David Douglas.