Kirista Isobel Johnstone

Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781-1857) ƙwararren yar jarida ce kuma marubuciya a Scotland a ƙarni na sha tara. [1] [2] Ta kasance babbar mace ta farko kuma mai ba da shawara ga wasu dalilai masu sassaucin ra'ayi a zamaninta. [3] Ta rubuta ba tare da sunanta ba, kuma a ƙarƙashin sunan mai suna Margaret Dods. An bayyana ta a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin editocin mata na farko da aka biya na wata jarida. [4]

 Rayuwa 
Ana tsammanin ita ce Kirista Todd wanda aka haifa a ranar 12 ga Yuni 1781 a cikin Edinburgh na St. Cuthbert. Ta yi aure tana da shekara goma sha shida, ga wani mawallafin Edinburgh mai suna Thomas McCleish; Sun rabu a 1805, kuma ta sake shi a 1814. Kirista ya sake yin aure: ga John Johnstone, tsohon malamin makarantar Dunfermline, wanda ya zo Edinburgh a matsayin mai bugawa da zane-zane. Sun yi aure a watan Yuni 1815.

Kirista Isobel Johnstone ya rubuta wasu shahararrun ayyukan almara a cikin juzu'i uku da hudu, ga manya da masu karatu na matasa. Littafinta Clan-Albin: A National Tale (1815) watakila shi ne aikinta da aka fi sani; ta kuma rubuta The Saxon da Gaël (1814), da "mafi kyawun littafinta,"  Elizabeth de Bruce (1827), a tsakanin sauran lakabi. Johnstone kuma ya rubuta littattafan da ba na almara ba akan batutuwa daban-daban, kamar Scenes of Industry Nuna a cikin Beehive da Anthill (1827) da Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier (1831). Waɗannan littattafan, kamar yawancin littattafan Johnstone, an buga su ba tare da sunansu ba. Littafin littafin Cook da Uwargidanta  (1826) an ba da ita a ƙarƙashin sunan mai suna Margaret Dods. Wannan amfani da Margaret Dods ya yi kama da sunan halayen Margaret Dods, uwargidan Cleikum Inn a cikin littafin Walter Scott na Saint Ronan's Well (1823). Daga baya Abraham Hayward ya yaba a cikin Bita na Kwata-kwata .  An rubuta littafin dafa abinci ta fuskar halin Scott, kuma ya haɗa da gabatarwar da Scott ya rubuta wanda ya ambaci wasu haruffa daga littafin.  Sai kawai a cikin rayuwarta, kamar yadda ta Edinburgh Tales (1846), aka gano ta da suna a shafukan take. 

Ita da mijinta na biyu sun fara kuma suna gudanar da shirye-shiryen lokaci-lokaci da yawa - Malamin Makaranta, Mujallar Makodin Edinburgh, da sauransu. A cikin 1832, shekarar farko na Dokar Gyarawa, Johnstones ya kafa Mujallar Edinburgh ta Johnstone a matsayin murya don abubuwan da suka fi so. The periodical fama da kudi, kuma a 1834 an hade tare da wani sabon mujallar, Tait's Magazine . (Johnstones ya nace cewa za a yanke farashin murfin Tait da fiye da rabi, zuwa 1 shilling a kowace kwafin, don samar da mujallar ga mafi yawan masu sauraro. ita ce "mace ta farko da ta yi aiki a matsayin editan da aka biya na wani babban lokaci na Victorian..." 

Ta mutu a ranar 26 ga Agusta 1857. An binne ta a ƙarƙashin wata katuwar obelisk dake tsakiyar hanyar gabas ta makabartar Grange a kudancin Edinburgh. Mijinta ya rasu bayan ’yan watanni kuma aka binne shi tare da ita.

 Duba kuma 

 1815 a cikin littattafai

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Haifaffun 1781
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