ANNE

See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• ANNE GRANT (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

GRANT (1755-1838)  , Scottish writer, generally known as Mrs Grant of Laggan, was horn in Glasgow, on the 21st of February 1755 . Her childhood was spent in America, her father, Duncan MacVicar, being an army officer on service there . In 1768 the family returned to Scotland, and in 1779 Anne married James Grant, an army chaplain, who was also minister of the parish of Laggan, near Fort Augustus, Inverness, where her father was barrack-master . On her husband's death in 18o1 she was left with a large family and a small income . In 1802 she published by subscription a volume of Original Poems, with some Translations from the Gaelic, which was favourably received . In .18o6 her Letters from the Mountains, with their spirited description of Highland scenery and legends, awakened much interest . Her other works are Memoirs of an American Lady, with Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America as they existed previous to the Revolution (18o8), containing reminiscences of her childhood; Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland (1811) ; and Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen, a Poem (1814) . In 1810 she went to live in Edinburgh . For the last twelve years of her life she received a pension from government . She died on the 7th of November 1838 . See Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs Grant of Laggan, edited by her son J . P .

Grant (3 vols., 1844) .