Isobel Pagan — a remark

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“Was not that great nonsense?”

A characteristically irreverent response to a clergyman's warning about damnation, preserved in a later biographical account · Conversation recalled in James Paterson, The Contemporaries of Burns, 1840

About Isobel Pagan

Isobel Pagan

c. 1740–3 November 1821

Isobel Pagan, known in her own district as Tibbie Pagan, was born about 1740, probably near Nithhead in the parish of New Cumnock, Ayrshire, and died at Muirkirk on 3 November 1821. Her dates alone suggest a life that crossed extraordinary changes in Scottish society: she was born before the great age of Robert Burns…

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