When George came of age she joined the Convent of St Catherine at Sciennes in Edinburgh.
Nearby is the remaining part of Sciennes Hill House, once the home of Adam Ferguson, who hosted a dinner there where Robert Burns and the young Walter Scott met for the one and only time in the winter of 1786-87.
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The name Sciennes is derived from this convent's connection with Siena (Sienne in French, the court language of Scotland for much of the 16th Century).
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