The Christian Watt Papers: Amazon.co.uk: Christian Watt: Books

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links

(What is this?)

Christian Aid Gifts opens new browser window

PresentAid.org - Give Goats, Taps, Disaster Kits Christian Gifts Help Change Lives.

Bible Paper opens new browser window

www.Alibaba.com - Contact Suppliers & Manufacturers, Easy Sourcing on B2B Marketplace!

Biblical Financial Advice opens new browser window

www.TrinityWealthManagement.co.uk - Biblical Christian Financial Advice for Financial & Investment Planning

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Maw Broon's Cookbook: The Broon's Cookbook - for Every Day and Special Days

by Maw Broon

4.9 out of 5 stars (25) �6.95

Panasonic SD255 Breadmaker with Raisin/Nut Dispenser

4.8 out of 5 stars (346) �89.99

Tutti Frutti [DVD] [1987]

DVD ~ Robbie Coltrane

4.7 out of 5 stars (61) �15.98

Engleby

by Sebastian Faulks

4.1 out of 5 stars (124) �4.87

› Explore similar items

Inside This Book (Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.

Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover

Tag this product

(What's this?)

Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items.

Customer Reviews

2 Reviews

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

Average Customer Review

4.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)

Share your thoughts with other customers:

Create your own review

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Account of life in a fishing town in the late 19th Century, 7 Jul 2001

By	A. Mcleman (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Review by G Douglas M McLeman) The Christian Watt Papers. Edited with an Introduction by David Fraser An unusual set of circumstances had led to the preservation of these Memoirs. Christian Watt was born in 1833 in Broadsea, the fishertown of Fraserburgh. The loss at sea of four brothers, of a son at the age of thirteen and of her husband helped to unhinge her mind and she spent the last forty years of her life in an Asylum in Aberdeen. She died in 1923 at the age of ninety. She made a recovery and could have returned to her family home, but she chose to remain in the Asylum. She was an educated woman and was persuaded to write these Memoirs, which tell the story of her own life and give the history of her own and related families and also an account of the conditions of precarious but self-reliant life in a fishing community in Aberdeenshire during the second half of the last century. Christian Watt shows herself to have been an attractive woman with a strong personality. She learned to gut fish at the age of ten. She was a maid to the Duchess of Leeds in London at the age of sixteen. When she was a laundrymaid at Philorth House, the home of the family of the Frasers of Saltoun, she received a proposal of marriage from a younger son of that family. Christian Watt's family was related by two separate links of illegitimacy with the Fraser family, and, over her long life, she was on intimate terms with five generations of that family. She also received attentions from the Master of Lovat and there is an account of an extraordinary meeting with the young man's parents, the 14th Lord Lovat and his wife, at Strichen House. When she was twenty-three, Christian Watt went to New York to recover an estate of some �300 bequeathed to her by a brother. She stayed in America for two years and for a time was table-maid to Sir Winston Churchill's grandmother. She married a fisherman, James Sim, when she was twenty-five and had ten children. Christian Watt had a hard life, but on balance a happy one. Her very strength of character may have made things difficult for her. She says of herself that she was a "sodger clad" but "Major minded". . The editing of this book by Sir David Fraser is thoroughly admirable. In connecting narratives he gives the background of the history of Fraserburgh and of the Fraser families of Saltoun and Lovat. There are illuminating genealogies and some excellent photographs. Christian Watt's own writing is racy and readable.

DOUGLAS McLEMAN.

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)

5.0 out of 5 stars Christian Watt Papers, 8 Aug 2009

By	Jacqueline A. Campbell (Aberdeenshire, Scotland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Christian Watt Papers (Paperback)

The story of Christian Watt works at many levels - to natives of North east Scotland they will recognise strength and forebearance of character which is a trade mark of the 'Brocher' Her story also demonstrates the strength gleaned from a complete belief in God, even in the most dire of circumstances. Christian Watt tells her story simply and without any sense of self pity and this makes the tale even more poignant. Sad though her story is, her ability to find goodness and pleasure, in what many would regard as a hopeless situation,is life affirming. The searing description of her searching the sands for her drowned husband will live with me forever.