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Martha Fletcher

Dates 1700 - 1780
Additional date information 1700-80
Short biography

correspondent, estate manager

Biography

daughter of Margaret Carnegie and Henry Fletcher, sister of Lord Milton, ran Fletcher family estates, commented on her readings, correspondence about estate management

 

See Katherine Glover, Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Woodbridge, 2011), 177 and passim

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