Elizabeth Scot(t) (17 July 1729 – 1789), born Elizabeth Rutherford, was an eighteenth-century Scottish poet who composed stanzas from a young age.
[1] Elizabeth was born 17 July 1729 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the daughter of Alice Watson and advocate David Rutherford.
Together they lived at Wauchope House near Jedburgh, Scotland.
[1] Scot is most known for the poetic epistle titled ‘The Guidwife of Wauchope-house to Robert Burns', which she wrote for Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1787.
[3] Other correspondents who supported her work include Enlightenment author Allan Ramsey and author Thomas Blacklock.