Charlotte Scott Quotes

“Who was Lady Scott originally? I really wish anybody would tell me, for surely someone must know. There is a veil of mystery hung over that dear lady's birth and parentage, which I have been unable to see through or lift up; and there have been more lies told to me about it, and even published in all the papers of Britain, by those who ought to have known than ever was told about those of any woman that ever was born.”
― James Hogg, Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott

“The open-house hospitality which all commentators note as a feature of Abbotsford began with Charlotte's regime at 50 George Street.

One of the very few facts we know about the Charpentier household in Lyons where she was brought up was that many interesting strangers seem to have dropped in. So to did people drop in on the Scotts in the New Town and at the houses they later kept in the country.”
― John Sutherland, The Life of Walter Scott: A Critical Biography