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Lady Helen Hall (1762-1837)

Lady Helen Hall lived during the late 18th century and early 19th century. She was born into a large Scottish aristocratic family, being one of the daughters of Dunbar Douglas (1722-1799) 4th Earl of Selkirk and Helen Hamilton (1738-1802). Of her twelve siblings, 9 lived to adulthood, and all of whom would have felt duty bound to marry gentry or atleast cement family connections. She filled this expectation by marrying Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet of Dunglass, with whom she had 12 children.

Lady Helen Hall was born into the Scottish Enlightenment, during it's peak time in the 1700-1800s. The Scottish Enlightenment was a period of philosophical, scientific, and engineering exploration, with its roots on the 1600s, and flourishing in the 1700s, before tailing off in the late 1800s.

became a property manager and builder without any sort of family precedent, an extreme rarity for her time. Mary Wollstonecraft