Lady Grisell Baillie

According to the extensive records kept by her mother, Grisell Baillie , the education of both the Baillie girls, Grisell and Rachel, was generously sponsored by their parents, who hired a number of tutors over...

Lady Grisell Baillie , who had been a heroine of the Covenanter movement as a girl and whose elder daughter, GM , wrote memoirs of both her parents, died. She was buried next to her...

Lady Grisell or Grizell Hume , later Baillie, was the daughter of Scottish Covenanter Sir Patrick Hume (later Earl of Marchmont). Born on Christmas Day in 1665 at Redbraes Castle in Berwickshire, Grisell played...

As Grisell Baillie 's story makes clear, her father, Sir Patrick Hume, later Earl of Marchmont , Grisell Murray's maternal grandfather, was an important figure in Scotland, a national and religious (Presbyterian) leader. So was...

George was part of William of Orange 's 1689 expedition to claim the throne of England, which was almost shipwrecked on the way. His estates were restored after the Glorious Revolution, and...

Back in Edinburgh she worked for the pious and highly political family of George Baillie of Jerviswood at their estate of Mellerstain.

GM 's writings about her father and her mother were published in complete form without any reserve at Edinburgh, as a volume in their own right.

JB said she admired her heroine Lady Grisell (whose story she wrote in a few weeks during the winter of 1816-17) beyond any Female Character I ever knew or read of. She acknowledged...

This novel was the fruit of careful research: based not, like her earlier historical novels, on an already digested historical narrative, but on a mass of first-hand archival material, and first-hand experience of living Scottish...

GM , at Mellerstain in the Scottish Borders, began writing Facts Relating to my Mother's Life and Character, a longer, more connected, and more emotional account of her mother, Lady Grisell Baillie ...

Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committeeThe anthology came out in six volumes, printing the music along with the words of its songs; its editor was the greatest...

After JB 's visit to Scotland, she published Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters, which included poems on William Wallace and the woman she calls Lady Griseld Baillie .

The book is prefaced by a glossary which informs the reader that Edinburgh is nicknamed Auld Reekie, that to gowl is to weep noisily, to rug and rive is to carry off by violence...