ELIZABETH GRANT OF ROTHIEMURCHUS. EDITED BY ANDREW TOD - Memoirs of a Highland Lady. Volume Two. Canongate Classics II

Edinburgh, Canongate Classics, 1988. 1st Canongate Classic Edition, Binding: Soft Cover, Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0862411475 Paperback Paperback. The second volume of Elizabeth Grant's classic autobiography follows the fortunes of the Grants of Rothiemurchus from her family's arrival in Edinburgh in 1814 when she was seventeen. She describes the trauma of a broken engagement and her agonies are an echo of the overall problems suffered by her father, Sir John peter Grant, as his legal and political ambitions collapsed, with the direst of consequences for his family. After the interlude of a continental tour of Holland in 1819, the decision is taken to retreat to Rothiemurchus. An Indian judgeship provides an unexpected avenye to escape from Sir John Peter's creditors, and her Memoirs end with the thirty-three year old Elizabeth finding her own future happiness in marriage to an Irish landowner. 345 pp.