Elizabeth Grant

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Standard Name: Grant, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Grant
Married Name: Elizabeth Smith
Nickname: Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus
Pseudonym: A Lady
EG (both under that name and her later one of Elizabeth Smith) was a talented autobiographer, an essayist, and a diarist. Selections from her memoirs and journals were edited and published subsequent to her death and provide vivid pictures of social and political life in Scotland, England, India, Ireland (including the Great Famine), and France during the nineteenth century.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
DB was a great-niece of the diarist and memoirist Elizabeth Grant (later Smith) . The writers Julia Strachey and Amabel Williams-Ellis , and painter Duncan Grant , all belonged to the same extended family.
Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: A Biography. Penguin, 1980.
248, 292, 373
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Grant
AG was distantly related to the diarist and memoirist Elizabeth Grant , and thus to the forebears of twentieth-century writers Julia Strachey , Lytton Strachey , Dorothy Bussy , and Amabel Williams-Ellis .
Intertextuality and Influence Nan Shepherd
NS 's foreword mentions a great deal that has happened in the thirty years since this book was written, although those years are the flicker of an eyelid in the life of a mountain: the...
Textual Production Carolina Oliphant Lady Nairne
Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committee
McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol.
47
, No. 2/3, 1 June–30 Nov. 2006, pp. 253-87.
258
The anthology came out in six volumes, printing the music along with the words of its songs; its editor was the greatest...
Textual Production Jan Morris
More than a decade later, in 1978, JM followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...

Timeline

2 September 1752: Falling into line with the rest of Europe,...

National or international item

2 September 1752

Falling into line with the rest of Europe, Britain changed from the Julian calendar (developed by the Romans) to the Gregorian calendar, which corrected its accumulated slippage backwards from astronomical time; the next day...

14-29 August 1822: George IV visited Edinburgh (first reigning...

National or international item

14-29 August 1822

George IV visited Edinburgh (first reigning monarch to do so since the 1630s); Sir Walter Scott laid on a lavish display of Scottish national pride.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
235, 387n12, 403n94
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Texts

Grant, Elizabeth. A Highland Lady in France. Editors Pelly, Patricia and Andrew Tod, Tuckwell Press, 1996.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Hannah White: A Sketch of Irish Humble Life”. Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, Vol.
9
, No. 215, pp. 100-3.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Memoirs of a Highland Lady, edited by Andrew Tod, Canongate, 1988.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Highland Lady in Ireland, edited by Andrew Tod, Canongate, 1991, p. vii - xiii.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. A Highland Lady in France, edited by Andrew Tod, Tuckwell Press, 1996, p. vii - xvii.
Grant, Elizabeth. Memoirs of a Highland Lady. Editor Strachey, Jane Maria, Lady, J. Murray.
Grant, Elizabeth. Memoirs of a Highland Lady. Editor Tod, Andrew, Canongate, 1988, 2 vols.
Grant, Elizabeth. “My Brother the Laird”. Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, Vol.
5
, No. 120, pp. 241-6.
Grant, Elizabeth. “My Father the Laird”. Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, Vol.
5
, No. 119, pp. 225-9.
Grant, Elizabeth. “My Nephew the Laird”. Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, Vol.
5
, No. 121, pp. 261-4.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Preface”. Memoirs of a Highland Lady, edited by Angus Davidson, J. Murray, 1950, p. v - vi.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Retrenchment”. Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, Vol.
14
, 1850, pp. 333-5.
Grant, Elizabeth. The Highland Lady in Ireland. Editors Pelly, Patricia and Andrew Tod, Canongate, 1991.
Grant, Elizabeth. The Irish Journals of Elizabeth Smith, 1840-1850. Editors Thomson, David and Moyra McGusty, Clarendon, 1980.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Wintering in Pau, A French Sketch”. Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, Vol.
9-10
, 1848, pp. 153 - 6; 186.