MB
opened her volume with an explanatory preface and closed it with some historical notes, both designed to pre-empt the question of whether she had exaggerated the terrible events she relates. The reviewer in the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Harriet Beecher Stowe
She was more controversial in her defence of the Improvements in the Scottish Highlands. Much of HBS
's visit to Britain had been facilitated by the Duchess of Sutherland
(Mistress of the Robes to...
Literary responses
Harriet Beecher Stowe
McLeod
parried with a highly personal attack, by re-issuing his History of the Destitution in Sutherlandshire under the title Gloomy Memories in the Highlands of Scotland: Versus Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Sunny Memories; or, A...
Timeline
May 1819, May 1820: These months were scheduled for the removal...
National or international item
May 1819, May 1820
These months were scheduled for the removal of thousands of subsistence farmers and their families from the Highland estates of Lord and Lady Stafford (later the Duke
and Duchess of Sutherland
) in the Sutherland...
