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Spinning was an expected part of the daily work of Medieval townswomen of all social classes. In crafts, women could sometimes be apprentices, but they could not join guilds in their own right. Scotland had fewer nunneries than male monasteries, but prioresses were figures with considerable authority. There may have been small numbers of ...
Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll (1574–1607), attributed to Adrian Vanson. Women in early modern Scotland, between the Renaissance of the early sixteenth century and the beginnings of industrialisation in the mid-eighteenth century, were part of a patriarchal society, though the enforcement of this social order was not absolute in all aspects.
[1] [2] She died the 10th of February 1927. [3] It is said that the idea of lectures for women in Glasgow arose out of her suggestion at a dinner party. [4] She approached the University of Glasgow to request that lectures were started for women. Natural history, moral philosophy, English literature and astronomy lectures were
Other female figures from Celtic mythology include the weather witch Cailleach (Irish for 'nun,' 'witch,' 'the veiled' or 'old woman') of Scotland and Ireland, the Corrigan of Brittany who are beautiful seductresses, the Irish Banshee (woman of the Otherworld) who appears before important deaths, the Scottish warrior women Scáthach, Uathach ...
In 1527, Margaret Erskine married Robert Douglas of Lochleven, [2] who was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh. She became the châtelaine of Lochleven Castle. She had two sons with James V after her marriage to Robert Douglas. [3] The first son, James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, was Regent during the minority of James VI. [1]
A woman was rarely welcome in a position of supreme power, and Margaret was the sister of an enemy king, which served to compound her problems. Before long a pro-French party took shape among the nobility, urging that she should be replaced by John Stewart, Duke of Albany , the closest male relative to the infant prince, and now third in line ...
The birth of their son David in Auchterhouse, Angus, in 1751 suggests that the Ogilvys were able to return to Scotland before David's pardon. Their son David was not considered to be of sound enough mind to inherit the title, which passed to a cousin. [13] Their third child, Johanna, was born in 1755/6. [14] Lady Ogilvy died in 1757.
Janet Beaton, Lady of Branxholme and Buccleugh (1519–1569) was an aristocratic Scottish woman and a mistress of James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell. [1] She had a total of five husbands. One of her nieces was Mary Beaton , one of the four ladies-in-waiting of Mary, Queen of Scots , known in history as the four Marys .