Memoirs of a Highland

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

Book Overview

Memoirs Of A Highland Lady is a book that is essentially an autobiography of Elizabeth Grant, who was born in 1797 in the Scottish Highlands. The book covers the period from Elizabeth's birth up until... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0862413966
• ISBN13: 9780862413965
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Canongate Us
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.0" x 7.8"

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.