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

Kirsteen McCue (Edited by) , Pamela Perkins (Edited by)