Description: This is the first biography of Lady Charlotte Bury (1775-1861), a renowned novelist and celebrated beauty who listed Sir Walter Scott and Matthew 'Monk' Lewis among her admirers.
Brief description: Margaret Storrie's lifelong interest in the Scottish Highlands and islands started when undertaking fieldwork and postgraduate research on historic landscapes in the Ardnamurchan peninsula, Isle of Islay and Outer Hebrides. Having started her academic career at Glasgow University, she then moved to Bedford College in Regent's Park and thereafter to Queen Mary University of London. Margaret is the founding editor of two academic journals, including Scottish Archives, and author of Islay: Biography of an Island (3rd edition, 1997).