Christian Isobel Johnstone wrote a number of popular fiction works in three and four volumes, for adults and juvenile readers.Her novel Clan-Albin: A National Tale (1815) was perhaps her best-known work; she also wrote The Saxon and the Gaël (1814), and "her best novel,"[5] Elizabeth de Bruce (1827), among other titles.Johnstone also wrote non-fiction books on a range of subjects, like Scenes of Industry Displayed in the Beehive and the Anthill (1827) and Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier (1831).(The Johnstones insisted that the cover price of Tait's be cut by more than half, to 1 shilling per copy, to make the magazine available to the widest possible audience.)She is buried beneath a huge obelisk midway along the main eastern path of Grange Cemetery in southern Edinburgh.
The grave of Christian Isobel Johnstone, Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh
