Anne Grant of Laggan | |
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Born | Anne Macvicar 21 February 1755 Glasgow, Scotland |
Died | November 7, 1838 Edinburgh, Scotland | (aged 83)
Resting place | New Cemetery of St Cuthbert's churchyard |
Occupation | poet |
Language | English |
Nationality | Scottish |
Notable works | Memoirs of an American Lady; Letters from the Mountains |
Spouse |
James Grant (m. 1776) |
Anne Grant often styled Mrs Anne Grant of Laggan (21 February 1755 – 7 November 1838) was a Scottish poet and author best known for her collection of mostly biographical poems Memoirs of an American Lady as well as her earlier work Letters from the Mountains.
She personally exemplified the Scottish Highlands attributes which she admired: "virtuous and dignified poverty, elegance of sentiment that lives in the heart and conduct, and subsists independent of local and transitory modes."[1][a] In worldly wisdom, in literature, and in piety, her early attainments were admirable, and they were in later life well sustained, if not augmented.[1][failed verification][full citation needed] Her reading seems to have been extensive, but desultory. For doing this, she had singular advantages in her personal intercourse with the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviewers, and in her constant habit of retailing her own opinions and their judgments in frequent conversations with other associates, and in numerous letters to her friends, so that the same subject, being set before her mind in several different lights of investigation in receiving, and of explanation in imparting it, became perfectly familiar, and took its durable place in her retentive memory.[2][failed verification][full citation needed]
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