Author: Hopwood, D. Caroline
Biography:
HOPWOOD, Diana Caroline, formerly SKENE (1729-99: ancestry.co.uk)
She was the daughter of a Lt. Skene and his wife, the daughter of a Carlisle physician named Law. Their first names are unknown. Her father died in 1737. Like many sensitive souls prior to Romanticism, she underwent the experience of conversion of dark sinner to expanded soulfulness, first through Methodism and then through Quakerism. She married Thomas Hopwood, a tallow chandler, on 8 June 1764 at St. Peter, Leeds. To supplement their income she opened a school, teaching needlework, drawing, and pastry-making. She died, aged 70, on 25 July 1799, and was buried at Brighourne Quaker Meeting. Her husband died the following year. It is not known who edited An Account (1801) which appended her religious poems. (ancestry.co.uk 24 Oct. 2020; findmypast.co.uk 24 Oct. 2020; An Account [1801]) AA