Sorry, this was a trial. And error obviously. Unless you haven’t caught up on For You Alone. It’s waiting.
Now, me back to messing with my blog. And you doing something important!
Again, sorry to bother you. SK
Here are some key details:
- Scott married Charlotte Carpenter in 1797. She was the daughter of a French royalist who had fled to England during the revolution.
- Together, Scott and Charlotte had four children: Sophia, Walter, Anne, and Charles.
- Charlotte fell ill with illness in 1826 and died in May of that year. Scott was deeply affected by her death.
- In February 1815 specifically, Scott had been married to Charlotte Carpenter for approximately 18 years already.
- At the time, the couple lived together in Edinburgh for part of the year and spent summers at their country estate called Abbotsford in the Scottish Borders.
- Scott was also still working as a lawyer and writer in 1815, before his novels such as Waverly later made him internationally famous.
So in summary, in February of 1815, when Scott was 44 years old, he was very much a married man and husband to Charlotte Carpenter, his wife of almost two decades. He would remain married to her until her untimely death in 1826 at the age of 61.
Susan Kaye, writer 