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's father, John Peter Grant
, laird of Rothiemurchus, descended from the Chief of the Clan Grant and was an advocate. He had inherited land, including an estate in Hertfordshire, but pursued his...
Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Grant
This left her with just one son remaining from her family of twelve: John Peter Grant
, who bore the names of two of his doomed elder brothers.
Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, 1901, pp. 237-96.
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Literary responses
Anne Grant
Letters from the Mountains was not noticed in the Edinburgh Review, an omission which Grant attributed to gender prejudice.
Perkins, Pamela. “Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy”. Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850, edited by Emma Clery et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, pp. 29-43.
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The Critical gave it a brutal review, which began by turning seriously against the...
Textual Production
Anne Grant
Her son
published it as the first 23 pages in his edition of her Memoir and Correspondence, 1844.
Textual Production
Anne Grant
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's son John Peter Grant
published another collection of her writings: Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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Texts
Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, 3 vols.