Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elizabeth Grant
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Standard Name: Grant, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Grant
Married Name: Elizabeth Smith
Nickname: Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus
Pseudonym: A Lady
EG
(both under that name and her later one of Elizabeth Smith) was a talented autobiographer, an essayist, and a diarist. Selections from her memoirs and journals were edited and published subsequent to her death and provide vivid pictures of social and political life in Scotland, England, India, Ireland (including the Great Famine), and France during the nineteenth century.
More than a decade later, in 1978, JM
followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...
Textual Production
Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne
Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committee
McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol.
47
, No. 2/3, pp. 253-87.
258
The anthology came out in six volumes, printing the music along with the words of its songs; its editor was the greatest...
Intertextuality and Influence
Nan Shepherd
NS
's foreword mentions a great deal that has happened in the thirty years since this book was written, although those years are the flicker of an eyelid in the life of a mountain: the...
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothy Bussy
DB
was a great-niece of the diarist and memoirist Elizabeth Grant (later Smith)
. The writers Julia Strachey
and Amabel Williams-Ellis
, and painter Duncan Grant
, all belonged to the same extended family.
Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: A Biography. Penguin.
2 September 1752: Falling into line with the rest of Europe,...
National or international item
2 September 1752
Falling into line with the rest of Europe, Britain changed from the Julian calendar (developed by the Romans) to the Gregorian calendar, which corrected its accumulated slippage backwards from astronomical time; the next day...
14-29 August 1822: George IV visited Edinburgh (first reigning...
National or international item
14-29 August 1822
George IV
visited Edinburgh (first reigning monarch to do so since the 1630s); Sir Walter Scott
laid on a lavish display of Scottish national pride.
Texts
Grant, Elizabeth. A Highland Lady in France. Editors Pelly, Patricia and Andrew Tod, Tuckwell Press, 1996.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Hannah White: A Sketch of Irish Humble Life”. Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, Vol.
9
, No. 215, pp. 100-3.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Memoirs of a Highland Lady, edited by Andrew Tod, Canongate, 1988.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Highland Lady in Ireland, edited by Andrew Tod, Canongate, 1991, p. vii - xiii.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. A Highland Lady in France, edited by Andrew Tod, Tuckwell Press, 1996, p. vii - xvii.
Grant, Elizabeth. Memoirs of a Highland Lady. Editor Jane Maria, Lady Strachey, J. Murray.
Grant, Elizabeth. Memoirs of a Highland Lady. Editor Tod, Andrew, Canongate, 1988.
Grant, Elizabeth. “My Brother the Laird”. Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, Vol.
5
, No. 120, pp. 241-6.
Grant, Elizabeth. “My Father the Laird”. Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, Vol.
5
, No. 119, pp. 225-9.
Grant, Elizabeth. “My Nephew the Laird”. Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, Vol.
5
, No. 121, pp. 261-4.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Preface”. Memoirs of a Highland Lady, edited by Angus Davidson, J. Murray, 1950, p. v - vi.