A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Halket, (Lady Anna)
Was instructed by her parents, who each presided over the education of different branches of the royal family, in every polite and liberal science; but theology and physic were her favourite studies. She became so particularly versed in the latter art, and in the practice of surgery, that she was consulted, not only by the first people in England, but in Holland also, whence many came for her advice.
In 1656, she married Sir Francis Halket, by whom she had four children, of whom only one survived. This union, which proved a happy one, lasted fourteen years, and she remained a widow for the last twenty-eight of her life, universally beloved and respected for her learning and virtue. She was a loyalist, and a sufferer in the cause of Charles I.
Lady Anna left twenty-one volumes, and thirty-six stiched books, of her writings; some in folio, some in quarto, of which, a volume of Meditations, taken from her numerous MSS. were printed at Edinburgh, 1761.