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| LBT ID: JaPurgs1835 | B/BAP: 1760 DIED: 1835 |
| SOURCES: M. C. Rintoul, Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction (1993) 758; thePeerage.com | |
The daughter of Hon. George Cranstoun; in 1797 she married Godfrey Wenceslaus Graf von
Purgstall and afterwards resided in Austria. She is thought to have been a model for Di
Vernon in Scott's Rob Roy. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Jane Anne Purgstall [née Cranstoun]: Jane Anne Cranstoun to Walter Scott, [1796] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Sir Walter Scott to the Countess Purgstall, [1821] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) | |
