Anne Grant
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Standard Name: Grant, Anne
Birth Name: Anne MacVicar
Married Name: Anne Grant
Nickname: Mrs Grant of Laggan
Pseudonym: the Author of Letters from the Mountains
colonial American childhood and isolated, late-eighteenth-century married years in the Scottish Highlands, was constructed during her residence in Edinburgh during the early nineteenth century. Her initial attitude to publication was ambivalent (no doubt because she hated being in financial need), but by the end of her life she came to see herself as a serious poet. Her letters are full of acute and up-to-the-minute literary judgements: particularly on women writers, among whom she has no sympathy for radicals. Her best-known work today is her biography of a colonial North American woman, a fascinating document in cultural history.
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Texts
Grant, Anne. Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Ballantyne, 1814.
Grant, Anne. Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1811.
Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806, 3 vols.
Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807, 3 vols .
Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, 3 vols.
Grant, Anne. “Letters Written by Mrs. Grant of Laggan Concerning Highland Affairs and Persons Connected With the Stuart Cause in the Eighteenth Century”. Diary of Sir Archibald Johnston, edited by James Robert Nicolson Macphail, Edinburgh University Press, 1896, pp. 248-30.
Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, 3 vols.
Grant, Anne. Memoirs of an American Lady. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808, 2 vols.
Grant, Anne. Memoirs of an American Lady. Editor Wilson, James Grant, Books for Libraries Press, 1972.
Grant, Anne. Poems on Various Subjects. Printed for the Author by J. Moir, 1803.
Wilson, James Grant, and Anne Grant. “Preface, Memoir of Mrs. Grant”. Memoirs of an American Lady, edited by James Grant Wilson and James Grant Wilson, Books for Libraries Press, 1972, p. ix - xxxvi.
Grant, Anne. The Highlanders and Other Poems. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808.