Isabella Schaw
Biography
Birth: ca. 1740
Death: n/a
Daughter of David Thomson. Married (November 28, 1762 in Edinburgh) to Capt. Frederik Bridges Schaw. According to Boswell, she was "[a] woman of a good deal of knowledge, pretty good sense, much vivacity, and a aprodigious flow of words".1
Also known as
- Isabella Thomson
Life with James Boswell
Boswell had apparently been in love with her at some time in 1762 (probably in Edinburgh). He met her again in London on March 15, 1763, and they had tea together March 20, 1763. Later on, in Edinburgh in the 1770s, Boswell and the Schaws seems to have moved in the same circles and they met occasionally.
Notes
Note 1: Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763, entry: March 15, 1763
Mentioned in
Isabella Schaw is mentioned in:
- London Journal 1762-1763
