Lady Charlotte Lindsay

Despite her relative poverty, MB moved easily in circles of the great and the good. Her closest friends were Anne Damer (whose death in 1828 was a terrible loss), Joanna Baillie (whom in 1831 she...

Lady Charlotte Lindsay , like Anne Damer before her, wrote of her friendship with MB (which dated from about 1821) in highflown sentimental terms, and felt that Berry devoted too much time and emotional capital...

Lady Charlotte Lindsay enthused at her first reading over the entertaining information and the acute and just reasoning upon facts and persons sufficiently known to be interesting, and yet not sufficiently so to be commonplace...

She had perhaps begun to form this intention as early as 7 May 1797, when she noted her desire to preserve her memories of these turbulent and alarming times. In 1821 Joanna Baillie