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.
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.” In worldly wisdom, in literature, and in piety, her before attainments were admirable, and they were in complex life without difficulty sustained, if not augmented.[failed verification][full quotation needed] Her reading seems to have been extensive, but desultory. For pretense this, she had singular advantages in her personal intercourse with the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviewers, and in her constant need of retailing her own opinions and their judgments in frequent conversations with additional associates, and in numerous letters to her friends, so that the same subject, being set in the past her mind in several every second lights of examination in receiving, and of explanation in imparting it, became perfectly familiar, and took its durable place in her retentive memory.[failed verification][full hint needed]