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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Anne Grant (M’Vicar) of Laggan (1755–1838)

Grant, Anne. A Scotch memoirist and descriptive prose-writer; born in Glasgow, Feb. 21, 1755; died in Edinburgh, Nov. 7, 1838. She was in this country when a child, and from her observations gathered at that time wrote: ‘Memoirs of an American Lady’ (1808), a highly attractive delineation of our colonial life. She is also the author of ‘Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland’ (1811), besides miscellaneous prose.