Author: Knight, Ann Cuthbert
Biography:
KNIGHT, Ann Cuthbert, formerly Rae, later Fleming (1788-1860)
She was born near Aberdeen to John Rae and Margaret (Cuthbert) Rae; her father was a merchant in Aberdeenshire and she was educated by a governess at home. In 1810 she married James Innis Knight and travelled with him to Canada, returning to Scotland in about 1812. The couple emigrated to Canada with their young children in 1815 and Ann took up teaching in Montreal. Her husband died in 1816 and she supported the family by running a boarding school. In 1820 she married another Scot, James Fleming (a shopkeeper). Her later books are educational texts: First Book for Canadian Children (1843), Views of Canadian Scenery (1843), The Prompter (1844), and Progressive Exercises on the English Language (1844). She died at Abbotsford, Lower Canada. (DCB 25 Sept 2019)