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Karen Baston

Karen Baston

Historian of the Long Eighteenth Century

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Phebe Forbes’s Country Life, Part 2: When Cows Attack

Tales from the Session PapersKaren Baston28/09/20160

Tales from the Session Papers Continued from Part 1 Phebe Forbes’s former brother-in-law had little sympathy for her plight. David Scot’s ‘Answers’ via advocate Andrew Pringle of 19 December 1755, did not hide his obvious dislike for his sister-in-law. He accused her of gold-digging, not just as his brother’s wife but, since she had remarried,…

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Phebe Forbes’s Country Life, Part 1: A Young Widow’s Legal Battle

Tales from the Session PapersKaren Baston28/09/20160

Tales from the Session Papers Phebe Forbes felt trapped and frustrated as she considered her options in the 1750s. Married young in 1752, she was a widow in the next year. She did not get along with her brother-in-law, David Scot (or Scott) of Hedderwick, who had control over the house she lived in as…

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