Harriet Anne Scott
Novelist, Author
1819 – 1894
Who was Harriet Anne Scott?
Harriet Anne Scott, Lady Scott, was a British novelist.
Scott, only daughter of Henry Shank of Castlerig and Glenniston, Fife, was born in Bombay in 1829. On 28 Nov. 1844 she married Sir James Sibbald David Scott, third baronet. She died at 18 Cornwall Gardens, Queen's Gate, London, on 8 April 1894.
Lady Scott, a highly accomplished woman, who should be distinguished from the contemporary novelist, Caroline Lucy Scott, Lady Scott, wrote eight novels; the first four were issued anonymously. Her books have been compared to those of Susan Ferrier.
The M.P.'s Wife and the Lady Geraldine, 1838, 2 vols.
The Henpecked Husband, 1847, 3 vols.
Percy, or the Old Love and the New, 1848, 3 vols.
Hylton House and its Inmates, 1850, 3 vols.
The Only Child: a Tale, 1852, 2 vols.
The Pride of Life, 1854, 2 vols.
The Skeleton in the Cupboard, 1860
The Dream of a Life, 1862, 3 vols.
She also contributed to the ‘Queen’ newspaper, and to various magazines, and published a small book entitled Cottagers' Comforts, and other Recipes in Knitting and Crochet. By Grandmother, 1887.
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