Lady (Caroline Lucy) Scott

Born Caroline Lucy Douglas in 1784, she was the second daughter of Archibald Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas. She later became Lady Scott through her marriage to Admiral Sir George Scott, and she is remembered as an English novelist and religious writer with a parallel interest in landscape painting.

Her fiction includes A Marriage in High Life and Trevelyan, along with writing for younger readers such as Children of the Manor. Across her work, she is often associated with domestic, moral, and religious themes that fit well with early 19th-century popular reading.

She died in 1857. Although not as widely read now as some of her contemporaries, her work still offers a useful glimpse into the values, family life, and literary tastes of her era.