Memoirs of a Highland Lady - Hardcover

Elizabeth Grant

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071950550X ISBN 13: 9780719505508

Publisher: John Murray, 1972

Synopsis

Light wear to boards, corners bumped, content clean and sharp, solidly bound, very good price clipped DJ with some wear

About this title

Review:

"If you have never read it before, do so now...compelling...delicious insights into a way of life long passed, as well as glimpses of the familiar...a warm, human, revealing account of a young woman's life." (Scottish Review of Books)

About the Author:

Elizabeth Grant (1797-1885) was born in Edinburgh's fashionable New Town. Most of her childhood was spent in London and on the family estate, Rothiemurchus, on Speyside. She was educated by governesses and in the social graces by various tutors, finally entering Edinburgh society at the end of the Napoleonic wars.

The trauma of a broken engagement was followed by the disastrous failure of her father's career. This involved a huge burden of debt which, in 1820, forced the Grants to retreat to their Highland home. As her contribution to improving the family fortunes, Elizabeth and both her sisters wrote articles for popular magazines of the day.

In 1827 the family left Scotland for India when her father was appointed to a Judgeship in Bombay. It was here that she met and married Colonel Henry Smith, seventeen years her senior. They left for Ireland the following year to live at Baltiboys, her husband's newly inherited estate situated near Dublin.

She devoted herself to raising a family and took up the leading role in managing and improving their impoverished estate. For over half a century Baltiboys was to be her home, her life and her occupation, her resolve never failing even after the death of her husband and her only son.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Murray
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 071950550X
• ISBN 13: 9780719505508
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Angus Davidson