Career
Scott"s father was a linen draper. The poem consists of 522 lines of rhyming couplets. lieutenant supplements Duncombe"s, and discusses more contemporary writers.
Among the poets referred to are Lucy Aikin, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mary Chudleigh, Sarah Fielding, Anne Killigrew, Catharine Macaulay, Catherine Parr, Helen Maria Williams, and Phillis Wheatley.
She began a correspondence with Anna Seward, whose father she had praised in The Female Advocate, and Seward"s published letters are the source of much that is known of Scott"s life. In the preface the Advocate, Scott mentions ongoing ill-health and indeed seems to have been a semi-invalid.
Her father died in 1788, and Scott was free after over a decade of courtship to marry John Taylor, a match her mother had opposed when alive. She died late in her third pregnancy, in 1793, at the age of forty-one.