Career
Isa Knox was the only child of John Craig, hosier and glover, born on 17 October 1831 in Edinburgh. A close study of standard English authors developed her literary tastes. And, after contributing verses to The Scotsman with the signature Isa, she was regularly employed on the paper in 1853.
There were 621 candidates, among them being Frederic William Henry Myers, Gerald Massey, and Arthur Joseph Munby.
She died at Brockley, Suffolk, in December 1903. According to the Dictionary of National, in verse Mistress
Knox produced nothing that surpassed the Burns ode. Her first volume,, showed some promise, and some lyric quality appeared in Poems: an Offering to Lancashire (1863), an anthology edited by Knox.
; and Doctor A. H. Japp edited a Knox"s Poems in 1892.
Of Mistress Knox"s prose work summarised Fanny Kemble"s Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, and was a well-constructed story. Mistress Knox"s reached its 30th thousand in 1899, and the author adapted from it a successful.
Tales on the Parables, two series, appeared in 1872-1877.