Nom légal: Grant, Elizabeth (née)
Smith, Elizabeth
Autres noms: Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus
Date de naissance: 1797-05-07
Date de décès: 1885-11-06
Sexe: female
Nationalité: UK
Lieu de naissance: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Lieu du décès: Baltiboys, County Wicklow, Ireland
Lieux de résidence: Rothiemurchus, Scotland, UK
Bombay, India
Professions: travel writer
memoirist
landowner
diarist
Relations: de Valois, Ninette (great-grandmother)
Courte biographie: Elizabeth Grant was the eldest of five children of Sir John Peter Grant, 9th Laird of Rothiemurchus, and his wife Jane. She was educated at home and met a variety of prominent family acquaintances in Edinburgh. In 1827, her family moved to India to avoid her father's creditors. While there, Elizabeth met and married Colonel Henry Smith, 17 years her elder, and settled with him on his family estate of Baltiboys in County Wicklow, Ireland. She kept detailed journals and began to write her memoirs on her birthday in 1845. In 1898, three years after her death, the work was first published in abridged form as Memoirs of a Highland Lady. Sections have also been published as The Highland Lady in Ireland: Journals 1840-50, as well as A Highland Lady in France, 1843-1845. She also wrote articles and short stories, which were often published anonymously. She used some of the income to support local schools in Ireland.

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A Highland Lady in France, 1843-1845: Elizabeth… par Elizabeth Grant

This is the diary of Elizabeth Grant during her two year stay in France in the 1840s. She is observant and critical of all around her. Her family was driven to their stay in France due to financial distress. She focuses on the minutiae of family life, running a household, is full of the prejudices of her time and is constantly struggling with money or the lack thereof. Surprisingly, she very alert and aware of the politics of her day and has strong opinions. This is a slow thoughtful read which can become a bit tedious but worth the effort.… (plus d'informations)

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varielle | Feb 3, 2017 |

Memoirs of a Highland Lady (Canongate Classic) par Elizabeth Grant

Elizabeth Grant lived through stirring times of great historical interest, this first volume of her memoirs is striking for its descriptive power and the accuracy of first person account of life among this privileged aristocracy of Scotland's ancient landowning chieftains. It would be a valid criticism to note that her world view (despite extensive travel) rarely breached the extended laterals of her family and its connections but that for me is a source of its value. Here I find an illuminating vision of life at the top as all that turmoil of politics was abrew.. It is not only a good read, though perhaps guilty of prolixity, its a fascinatingly honest and rare insight to a world most of us can only be strangers to..… (plus d'informations)

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summonedbyfells | 1 autre critique | Dec 5, 2015 |

Memoirs of a Highland Lady par Elizabeth Grant

Petty and boring

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richardhobbs | 1 autre critique | Dec 18, 2010 |