Jenny Geddes

(d. 1660)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Geddes, Jenny, 1600-1660 DNB: Geddes, Jenny (fl. 1637), supposed religious activist LBT ID: JeGedde1637 VIAF ID: 14292154 LOC ID: nb2006005880	DIED: 1660
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
The name of a woman who entered folklore for her early resistance to the prayerbook Charles I tried to impose on Presbyterian Scotland.
REFERENCES TO Jenny Geddes: Thomas Carlyle to John Gibson Lockhart, 26 October 1840 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 19: 1828-48