Jane Anne Purgstall [née Cranstoun]

(1760 c.-1835)

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.
REFERENCES TO 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) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 6: ¶ 55 ¶ 56 ¶ 57 ¶ 60 ¶ 62 ¶ n1 Chapter IX 1798-99 Found 3: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 6 Chapter VI 1821 Found 1: ¶ 9