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Lady Frances Steuart Denham |
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| Neé | Wemyss |
| Dates | 1722 - 1789 |
| Additional date information | 1722-1789 |
| Short biography |
author of memoir |
| Biography |
daughter of Earl of Wemyss, sister of Lord Elcho; married Sir James Stuart Denham, political economist; lived in exile with husband, appealed for his clemency successfully in 1762; as widow, wrote memoir of her married life See Katherine Glover, Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Woodbridge, 2011), 180 and passim |
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| In BDSW? | No |
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