Lady Nairne — a remark

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“Life is a perpetual repetition of resignation and submission. I hope it will soon be over. It is a mercy to be spared great bodily pain, which many suffer. We should try to count our mercies.”

A late-life reflection balancing weariness, compassion and gratitude · Letter to her Edinburgh correspondent, 12 May 1844

About Lady Nairne

Lady Nairne

16 August 1766–26 October 1845

Carolina Oliphant, later Lady Nairne, was born on 16 August 1766 at Gask House in Perthshire, into a family whose private memories were inseparable from one of Scotland’s most public historical wounds. She died on 26 October 1845, also at Gask, after a life of seventy-nine years in which she became one of the most…

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