Talk:Sarah Scott

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George Lewis Scott was not a member of any Scott family in Canterbury. He was born of Scottish parents in Hanover, Germany, where his father was serving as a British Envoy to the Court of the future Kings of England. George Lewis, educated at Leyden University, came to the Middle Temple in London in 1736 and lived in London until he died in 1780. Nor did Sarah Robinson get him a position as sub-preceptor for the future King George III. Having grown up with the Hanoverians in Germany, Scott was welcomed as a member of the literary circles that gathered around Prince Frederick and his Leicester House set. It was Lord Bathurst who conveyed to Prince Frederick the recommendation of Lord Bolingbroke that George Lewis Scott would be an excellent tutor for his son. As for George Lewis Scott having no means of providing for a wife, you should know that he was working on a Supplement to Chambers Encyclopedia at the time he accepted the sub-preceptor post. I am curious. Where did you get this erroneous information?Ef83024 22:28, 20 February 2007 (UTC) Why is Millenium Hall spelled like that? Is it an 18th century thing? Mark¹ 16:19, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Now you've thrown the fear into me. Have I misspelled it throughout? I'll check my copy of the book. As for when I was writing the article, I was using my notes from the DNB, and I'm fairly sure I didn't copy it down wrong. Geogre 16:23, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

I've just done a Google image search and I think the correct title is (strangley enough) 'Millenium Hall'. Should there be a note on the article page to state that this isn't just a typo? Jilly 16:24, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

You know, that's a good point. I spelled it properly from the start, it seems, and the bad thing for me is that my natural misspelling is Scott's spelling, so I was in luck. I suppose it's enough to have the evidence here on the talk page. Since the article is a biography of Scott, rather than a discussion of the novel (even though, of course, the novel is why most folks would look for the biography), keeping the evidence here on the talk page is more logical than a banner on the article's page itself. Geogre 20:45, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and for ALoan, yes, I think it was Geo 3. Frederick died while still PoW, and Geo3 was young. Sarah Scott was interested in Geo3 all along, and she celebrated his coronation later, so it makes sense that she, through Lady Elizabeth, had connections to his court all along. Geogre 16:26, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Original Research

No original research is allowed in Wikipedia. However, there are some interesting things about Sarah Scott and her sister that any student of the novels should consider. (This is a helpful hint to any grad student out there looking for a master's thesis topic.)

1. Sarah and Elizabeth Montagu express disgust at the thought of sex with men
2. Lesbianism, if that's what we're talking about, doesn't "run in families"
3. Matthew Robinson, the father of the family, hooked up with the housekeeper as soon as his wife was buried
4. He left for London with the housekeeper, cut off all his children, and apparently lived in sin with the doxy.

You know what does seem likely? Sexual abuse of the daughters. Notice that both of the writing girls are horrified by sex. Sarah's fictions demand that predatory men die horribly, and they insist that such men are all around and that good men are sexless. I don't think whether or not Sarah and Lady Bab were lovers is all that interesting, but to see a talented family universally bugged about sex, when the age had not yet turned so neurotic, does seem curious. Ah, well. WP:NOR and all that.