A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Sinclair, Catharine
SINCLAIR, CATHARINE,
Daughter of Sir John Sinclair, the celebrated agricultural writer was born in Edinburgh. She is the author of many elegant and ingenious books, and has a great deal of vivacity, a good understanding, and a well-cultivated mind. Her observations upon character are acute, and her delineations of society happily executed. Superior to her other merits is the guiding principle of religion and high-toned morality that pervades all she has written. The following are her principal works: "Hill and Valley, or Wales and the Welch," 1839, "Shetland and the Shetlanders, or the Northern Circuit," "Scotland and the Scotch, or the Western Circuit," "Modern Society, or the March of Intellect; Tale," "Modern Accomplishments," 1838, "Modern Flirtations, or a Month at Harrogate," 1841, "Scotch Courtiers and the Court," dedicated to the Poet Laureate, 1842, "Holiday House;—Tales for Children," "Lord and Lady Harcourt," 1850, and "Jane Bouveric," 1851.
In one of Sir John Sinclair's works he alludes to the influence which his sister's writings had had on their father—making him a convert to the religion of the Bible; very different from nominal Christianity. No higher praise could be given to her genius and her piety.