NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Cranstoun Helen D'Arcy (1765-1838) afterwards Stewart Song Writer DNB: Stewart [née Cranstoun], Helen D'Arcy (1765-1838), poet LBT ID: HeStewa1838 | B/BAP: 1765-03-25 DIED: 1838-07-28 |
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The daughter of George Cranstoun (d. 1788); she was a Scottish poet and, after becoming
the second wife of Dugald Stewart in 1790, a noted Edinburgh hostess. | |
REFERENCES TO Helen D'Arcy Stewart [née Cranstoun]: Dugald Stewart to Walter Scott, [November? 1796] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 1 Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, [August] 1802 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1:
¶ 5 Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, [12 June] 1805 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1:
¶ 5 Sydney Smith to Henry Reeve, 29 October 1805 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 21 October 1820 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of
John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1:
¶ 2 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1805 Found 1:
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