1st Edition
Women's Travel Writings in Scotland 'Letters from the Mountains' by Anne Grant and 'Letters from the North Highlands' by Elizabeth Isabella Spence
This collection includes the first critical editions of both Anne Grant’s Letters from the Mountains (1806), one of the Romantic era’s most successful non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands, and Elizabeth Isabella Spence’s Letters from the North Highlands (1816), a work that, while influenced by Grant’s Letters, attempted to move the genre of the Scottish travelogue in new directions. Read together, these volumes offer complementary views of Scottish Highland life at a time of major historical transition: Grant was offering outsiders her perspective as a long-time resident of the region, while Spence was, unapologetically, writing as a tourist. The Highlands were central to Romantic-era debates on subjects ranging from landscape and aesthetics to national identities, and, as this collection demonstrates, women were making significant contributions to those debates.
The four volume set, edited by Kirsteen McCue and Pam Perkins, is accompanied by new editorial material including a new general introduction and headnotes to each work.
Volume I
Acknowledgements
General Introduction
Bibliography
List of Anne Grant’s Correspondents and Close Friends
Headnote on Letters from the Mountains
Note on the Text
Letters from the Mountains, Volume I
List of Textual Variants
Volume II
Letters from the Mountains, Volume II
List of Textual Variants
Volume III
Letters from the Mountains, Volume III
List of Textual Variants
Appendix: Letters cut in the second edition
Volume IV
Headnote
Note on the Text
Letters from the North Highlands
Silent Corrections
Biography
Kirsteen McCue (Edited by) , Pamela Perkins (Edited by)