by Elizabeth Grant · Canongate Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780862411459
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«Memoirs of a Highland Lady» is the memoir by Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, published by Canongate in paperback (368 pages, in English).
Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus recalls her childhood and youth between Edinburgh and London, the summers of the well-to-do class at spas, and life in the Scottish Highlands. Her pages portray a society in full transformation at the beginning of the 19th century.
The work was originally published in 1898; this 1988 edition, edited and introduced by Andrew Tod, recovers the complete text from the original manuscript. It belongs to the Canongate Classics series.
For those who enjoy historical memoirs and biographies, especially those set in Scotland and 19th-century British society.
Elizabeth Smith was a Scottish diarist and lady of the manor of Baltyboys House. Over the course of her life, she lived in Scotland, England, India, Ireland, and France.
