Barbara MacKay, Lady Reay (c. 1615 - c. 1690) was a Scottish poet born in Scourie. Her main collection of poems is a manuscript composed of ten mainly religious poems dedicated to the Countess of Caithness. She also wrote on political matters: some of her best known works is a poem called Anagramme on his Ma[jes]ty, intend to encourage Charles II to be a good king, and a eulogy to Lord Lovat. She was the daughter of , and Hugh MacKay of Scourie and the second wife of , with whom she had at least six children. Like her father and husband, Barbara MacKay was both a Royalist and a Presbyterian. Reverend James Fraser mentions that she was "admired for sharpness and eloquence [...] a great historian, a smart poet, and, for virtue and housekeeping, few or none her parallel".
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| - Barbara MacKay, Lady Reay (c. 1615 - c. 1690) was a Scottish poet born in Scourie. Her main collection of poems is a manuscript composed of ten mainly religious poems dedicated to the Countess of Caithness. She also wrote on political matters: some of her best known works is a poem called Anagramme on his Ma[jes]ty, intend to encourage Charles II to be a good king, and a eulogy to Lord Lovat. She was the daughter of , and Hugh MacKay of Scourie and the second wife of , with whom she had at least six children. Like her father and husband, Barbara MacKay was both a Royalist and a Presbyterian. Reverend James Fraser mentions that she was "admired for sharpness and eloquence [...] a great historian, a smart poet, and, for virtue and housekeeping, few or none her parallel". (en)
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| - Barbara MacKay, Lady Reay (c. 1615 - c. 1690) was a Scottish poet born in Scourie. Her main collection of poems is a manuscript composed of ten mainly religious poems dedicated to the Countess of Caithness. She also wrote on political matters: some of her best known works is a poem called Anagramme on his Ma[jes]ty, intend to encourage Charles II to be a good king, and a eulogy to Lord Lovat. She was the daughter of , and Hugh MacKay of Scourie and the second wife of , with whom she had at least six children. Like her father and husband, Barbara MacKay was both a Royalist and a Presbyterian. Reverend James Fraser mentions that she was "admired for sharpness and eloquence [...] a great historian, a smart poet, and, for virtue and housekeeping, few or none her parallel". (en)
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