Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross was a Scottish poet. In 1603 she became the earliest known Scottish woman writer to see her work in print, when the Edinburgh publisher Robert Charteris issued the fir
Culross Abbey Kirk, where Elizabeth Melville worshipped.
Culross situated on the north coast of the Firth of Forth; the village from which Melville took her courtesy title, Lady Culross.
St Mary's College, St Andrews, at which Melville's son, Alexander, taught.
Pastor Samuel Rutherford (c.1600 – 1661).
David Dickson was a Church of Scotland minister and theologian.
Elizabeth Melville
…love, Christian affection, and blessing". Robert Wodrow was told that she had visited Anne Livingstone at Eglinton Castle in 1622, meeting the minister David Dickson. Modern scholarship on Melville dates back to David Laing's 1826 reprint of the 1603 text of Ane Godlie Dreame in Scottish Metrical Tales, reissued by…
Dickson wrote A Brief Explication of the First Fifty Psalms in 1655.