Lady Frances Shelley [née Winckley]

(1787-1873)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Shelley, Frances Winckley, Lady, 1787-1873 LBT ID: FrShell1873 VIAF ID: 89770019 LOC ID: nb2010027323	B/BAP: 1787 DIED: 1873-02-24
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The daughter of Thomas Winckley; in 1807 she married Sir John Shelley, sixth baronet. Sir Walter Scott admired her skills as a harpist and a huntress; her Diary was published in 1912.
REFERENCES TO Lady Frances Shelley [née Winckley]: Walter Scott to Walter Scott, jun., 1 August 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 6 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IX 1819 Chapter IV 1828 Found 1: ¶ 23