Talk:Ann Batten Cristall/@comment-88.97.111.186-20170730091557

No. 1: Anne Batten Cristall was NOT a Scottish poet. She was the daughter of the second marriage of her father (originally from Arbroath, Scotland, but a mariner and shipyard owner permanently based in Rotherhithe, Kent) and a Cornish mother, Ann Elizabeth Batten. She was born in Penzance in her grandfather and mother's home on Chapel Street, amongst her large and prosperous merchant family. She and her brother, Joshua Cristall were both born in Cornwall and moved between the two places - London and Cornwall throughout their youth. Their mother was well educated and through her family, was given independent means, through which she educated her children (much against their father's ill-tempered wishes - who believed that the arts were useless and uneconomic). She and her siblings relied largely upon their mother, and it was an unsettled and relatively unhappy family life. She never visited Scotland.