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Anne MacVicar Grant

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 early attainments were admirable, and they were in later life well sustained, if not augmented. Her reading seems to have been extensive, but desultory. For doing this, she had singular advantages in her personal intercourse with the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviewers, and in her constant habit of retailing her own opinions and their judgments in frequent conversations with other associates, and in numerous letters to her friends, so that the same subject, being set before her mind in several different lights of investigation in receiving, and of explanation in imparting it, became perfectly familiar, and took its durable place in her retentive memory.

Birth and Death Data: Born 1755 (Glasgow), Died November 7, 1838 (Edinburgh)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1911

Roles Represented in DAHR: author

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Recordings

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Victor B-10957 10-in. 9/13/1911 The bluebells of Scotland Reed Miller Male vocal solo, with orchestra author  

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Grant, Anne MacVicar," accessed November 17, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/101996.

Grant, Anne MacVicar. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 17, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/101996.

"Grant, Anne MacVicar." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 17 November 2024.

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URI: https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/101996

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