Excerpt from A Memoir of Mrs. Crudelius

A woman has passed from among us who seems to deserve some memorial. Dying at the age of thirty-eight, Mary Crudelius left behind her a finished work of the utmost value to her sex and country. This work - the Edinburgh Ladies' Educational Association - was entirely, or as entirely as any work could be, conceived and originated by Mrs Crudelius , at the time of its first beginning a very young woman, and during her whole short life a very delicate one.

Mary M'Lean was the eldest daughter of William M'Lean, a merchant in Bury, Lancashire. She was born 23rd February 1839. Both her parents were natives of Dumfriesshire - a fact they were always glad to remember. Mrs Crudelius was thus an Englishwoman of Scotch parentage. Her early home and education were those of her class and country, in no respect inferior certainly. The position of her family was that called 'easy circumstances' - equally removed from great wealth and from any degree of poverty, and the characters of both parents were such as formed for their children a happy home.

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