Jean Gordon

(1670 c.-1745 c.)

LBT ID: JeGordo1745	B/BAP: 1670 DIED: 1745
SOURCES: M. C. Rintoul, Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction (1993) 351-52
The gipsy of Kirk-Yetholm who was the model for Meg Merilees in Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering. Scott met her granddaughter, Madge Gordon.
REFERENCES TO Jean Gordon: Sir Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 19 March 1826 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 II 1771-78 Found 1: ¶ 14 Chapter VIII 1826