Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Ferrier visited Walter Scott at Ashiestiel Farm and House on the banks of the River Tweed, near Clovenfords in the Scottish Borders, and again in 1829 and 1831 at his new house, Abbotsford. They enjoyed each other's company and he wrote of her: "This gifted personage besides having great talents has conversation the least exigeant of any author, female at least..., simple, full of humour, and exceedingly ready at repartee, and all this without the least affectation of the blue stocking." He mentioned her in the same sentence as Maria Edgeworth and Frances Burney in 1825. Ferrier's account of the
The House on Black Lake The House on Black Lake The House on Black Lake is a contemporary gothic suspense/romance novel by American author Anastasia Blackwell published by Creative Revolution in 2010. It is set in the underworld of Montreal society. Set in an enclave of summer homes for the power elite in the outskirts Montreal, the story follows world-weary American Alexandra Brighton as she travels with son Samuel to the home of Ruth and Ramey Sandeley. On the night of their arrival the mother and child stay in a dilapidated Victorian set on an island on Black Lake. Alexandra’s night of terror there sets