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Hall, Agnes C. (1775/6-1846)
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née Scott; A. C. H.; Agnes Crombie Hall; H.; C. H. pseudonym: A Lady pseudonym: R. St. Clair pseudonym: Rosalia (or Rosalind) St. Clair;
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translator, novelist, science writer, periodical contributor, literary critic, travel writer, children's writer
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Scottish; born in Roxburghshire She used the "St. Clair" pseudonym only for adult books. Some reference sources mistake "Rosalind" for "Rosalia."
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wife of Dr. Robert Hall
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Fraser's Magazine; Old Monthly; Westminster Review
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- Summers, Montague. A Gothic Bibliography. London: The Fortune Press, 1941.
- Frey, Anne. "The National Tale and the Pseudonymous Author: Mobile Identity in the 'Rosalia St. Clair' Novels." European Romantic Review, 25:2, pp. 181-199.
- Bygone Lore (https://sites.google.com/site/bygonelore/)
- Cushing, William. Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises. N.Y.: T. Y. Crowell & Company, [1867, 1885, etc.].
- Royal Literary Fund (https://www.rlf.org.uk/)
- The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 (http://wellesley.chadwyck.com/marketing/index.jsp)
- Desmond, Ray; Ellwood, Christine. Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists: Including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters and Garden Designers.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. © Oxford University Press
- Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.org/)
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• wrote First and Last Years of Wedded Life Elements of Botany The Pauper Boy The Doomed One, or, They Met at Glenlyon The Soldier Boy, or, The Last of the Lyalls The Sailor Boy: A Novel Eleanor Ogilvie: The Maid of the Tweed Ulrica of Saxony • translated Travels of F. R. J. De Pons The Blind Beggar, or, The Fountain of Saint Catherine