Caroline Lucy Scott


Caroline Lucy Scott, Lady Scott, was an English novelist and religious writer. She was also a landscape painter.

Biography

The second daughter of Archibald, first Baron Douglas, by Frances, sister of Henry, third duke of Buccleuch, she was born on 16 February 1784. She married, on 27 October 1810, Admiral Sir George Scott, K. C. B., who died on 21 December 1841. Lady Scott died at Petersham, Surrey, on 19 April 1857. She must be distinguished from the contemporary novelist Harriet Anne Scott, Lady Scott.
Lady Scott's first novel, A Marriage in High Life, was edited by the author of Flirtation: her relative, Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury. The plot was based on fact. The style is diffuse, but the interest well sustained. A French translation appeared in 1830. Another English edition appeared in 1857. Two other novels followed, likewise anonymously: Trevelyan, 1833, reprinted 1837 and 1860, and The Old Grey Church in 1856. Trevelyan also appeared in a German translation in 1835.
Lady Scott's succeeding, non-fiction works name her as author. They are Exposition of the Types and Antitypes of the Old and New Testament, 1856, Incentives to Bible Study; Scripture Acrostics; a Sabbath Pastime for Young People, 1860, and Acrostics, Historical, Geographical, and Biographical, 1863.
Lady Scott was also a landscape painter.

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