Frances Mary Colquhoun

Frances Mary Colquhoun (28 February 1836 – 29 July 1920) was a Scottish writer. Early life Known as Mary, she was born in Edinburgh in 1836, the eldest daughter and second child of John Colquhoun and Frances Sarah Fuller Maitland. Her father was a sportsman, author of The Moor and the Loch and former army officer. Her mother was the author of Rhymes and Chimes. She grew up in Duddingston and then Royal Terrace, Edinburgh in a "sternly Presbyterian" and well-connected family. She and her siblings also spent time in stately homes in England and Scotland. She had four sisters and four brothers. Her sister Lucy Bethia Walford became a popular Victorian novelist and wrote about the family in Recollections of a Scottish Novelist. Her aunt was the Scottish novelist Catherine Sinclair.