Harriet Scott

Background

Scott, only daughter of Henry Shank of Castlerig and Glenniston, Fife, was born in Bombay in 1829.

Career

She died at 18 Cornwall Gardens, Queen"s Gate, London, on 8 April 1894. Her books have been compared to those of Susan Ferrier. The titles of the novels are:

The Member of Parliament"s Wife and the Lady Geraldine, 1838, 2 volumes

The Henpecked Husband, 1847, 3 volumes

(other editions 1853 and 1865)

Percy, or the Old Love and the New, 1848, 3 volumes Hylton House and its Inmates, 1850, 3 volumes

The Only Child: a Tale, 1852, 2 volumes (another edition 1865, in Select Library of Fiction)

The Pride of Life, 1854, 2 volumes

The Skeleton in the Cupboard, 1860 (2nd edit 1861)

The Dream of a Life, 1862, 3 volumes

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.

Achievements

• Lady Scott, a highly accomplished woman, who should be distinguished from the contemporary novelist, Caroline Lucy Scott, Lady Scott (1784–1857), wrote eight novels. The first four were issued anonymously.