Memoirs of a Highland Lady 1797-1827

By Elizabeth Grant, Jane Maria Strachey, Elizabeth Grant Smith, et al.

Book Overview

Memoirs of a Highland Lady is one of the most famous memoirs ever written. Since its first bowdlerised edition in 1898, it has been consistently in print. This is the first ever complete text. Written... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B000S39QUY
• Release Date: January 1950
• Publisher: JOHN MURRAY (ENGLAND)
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A personal look into the past

Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus' biographical volumes offer a very personal look into the past of Scotland (in the first book). Her account of her family's lives and what Scotland was like in the early 19th century would be fascinating to anyone interested in that country or interested in the lives of women of that era. In some ways she seems very contemporary and in other ways she seems very far removed from life today. But her memoirs offer a unique view of how life was lived that long ago and in a place so remote from the mainstream. I found the first book totally enthralling and look forward to reading the other volumes of her later life, after she married an Anglo-Irish landowner and moved to Ireland, and her later travels.