Studley, visit to 1, 2
Sussex, Augustus, Duke of 1, 2
Telfer, Sir Charles 1, 2, 3, 4
Tennochside 1, 2 sale of 1, 2
visit to 1, 2
Thackery, William Makepace 1, 2
theatricals 1, 2 at the Doune 1, 2
at Ramsgate 1, 2
see also plays
Thompson, Mr (tutor) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Thomson, Tommy 1, 2, 3
Thrale, Mrs (Hester Lynch Piozzi) 1, 2, 3
Tod, Anthony 1, 2, 3
Tunbridge Wells, visits to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Tweeddale, Marquis of 1, 2, 3
Twyford House 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 description of 1, 2
Velluti, Giovanni 1, 2
Vince, Samuel 1, 2
Vincent, Mr (tutor) 1, 2
Walker, Tom 1, 2; 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
walks at the Doune 1, 2, 3
in Oxford 1, 2
Ward, Fanny (cousin) 1, 2, 3, 4
Ward (maid) 1, 2, 3, 4
Wardle, Colonel 1, 2, 3, 4
Waterloo Battle of 1, 2, 3
visit to 1, 2
Watling, Mrs 1, 2
Watteau, Antoine 1, 2
Wauchope, Dr 1, 2
Waverley (Scott) 1, 2
Wedderburn, Mr (Solicitor-General) 1, 2
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of 1, 2, 3
Wellington, Duchess of 1, 2 3
West, Captain 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
West, Sir Edward 1, 2, 3
whiskey drinking 1, 2, 3
widows, cottage for 1, 2, 3
Wildman, Colonel 1, 2, 3, 4
William (servant of Uncle Griffith; 1, 2, 3
Williams, Misses 1, 2
Williams, Mrs Sophy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; 8, 9, 10
Wilson, Major 1, 2, 3, 4
Wilson, Mr, drawing lessons from 1, 2, 3
Windsor, visit to 1, 2
Wiseman, Lady 1, 2, 3, 4
Wiseman, Sir William 1, 2
Wolfe Murrays 1, 2
wood manufacture, see forest at Rothiemurchus
Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary 1, 2
Wouverman, Philip 1, 2
Wynyard, General 1, 2, 3
Wynyard, Lady Matilda 1, 2, 3
York, Frederick, Duke of 1, 2, 3; 4, 5
Zeist, visit to 1, 2
About the Author
MEMOIRS OF A HIGHLAND LADY
Elizabeth Grant (1797–1885) was born in Edinburgh’s fashionable New Town. Most of her childhood was spent in London and on the family estate, Rothiemurchus, on Speyside. She was educated by governesses and in the social graces by various tutors, finally entering Edinburgh society at the end of the Napoleonic wars.
The trauma of a broken engagement was followed by the disastrous failure of her father’s career. This involved a huge burden of debt which, in 1820, forced the Grants to retreat to their Highland home. As her contribution to improving the family fortunes, Elizabeth and both her sisters wrote articles for popular magazines of the day.
In 1827 the family left Scotland for India when her father was appointed to a Judgeship in Bombay. It was here that she met and married Colonel Henry Smith, seventeen years her senior. They left for Ireland the following year to live at Baltiboys, her husband’s newly inherited estate situated near Dublin.
She devoted herself to raising a family and took the leading role in managing and improving their impoverished estate. For over half a century Baltiboys was to be her home, her life and her occupation, her resolve never failing even after the death of her husband and her only son. Between 1845 and 1854 she wrote her Memoirs for her family’s pleasure; they were later edited by her niece Lady Strachey and published in 1898, thirteen years after her death. This Canongate Classic edition is the most complete ever to appear in print.
Copyright
First published in 1898 by John Murray
Revised edition first published in two volumes
in Canongate Classics in 1988. First published as
one volume in 2006 by Canongate Books,
14 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2009
by Canongate Books Ltd
Introduction copyright © Andrew Tod, 1988 and 2006
All rights reserved
The publishers gratefully acknowledge subsidy
from the Scottish Arts Council towards the publication of this title
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 84767 490 6
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