Background
She was the daughter of an unsuccessful merchant and his wife. After her father"s trading failure it fell on her mother"s family to pay for her education. In 1831 she moved to Cromarty where her father had retired and met Hugh Miller.
She was the daughter of an unsuccessful merchant and his wife. After her father"s trading failure it fell on her mother"s family to pay for her education. In 1831 she moved to Cromarty where her father had retired and met Hugh Miller.
Lydia Mackenzie Falconer was baptised in 1812. Both of them were well read and intelligent. She had lived in Edinburgh"s literary society.
Hugh was busy and they brought up four children.
Despite this she wrote a large number of moral and entertaining works for children. In addition she wrote a novel titled Passages in the of an English Heiress in 1847.
Her husband in fear of insanity committed suicide on 23 December 1856. Their daughter, the poet and novelist Harriet Miller Davidson was said to have been affected by this the rest of her life.
Lydia was left to complete the publication of his unfinished works and to assist in the writing of her husband"s biography.
She was assisted by a civil list pension that was given to her in 1857. She moved to Inverness in 1863 where she continued to write for children. Miller died in Lairg in 1876.