The Highland Lady In Ireland

Author : Elizabeth Grant
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847675392

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The Highland Lady In Ireland by Elizabeth Grant Pdf

Edited and Introduced by Patricia Pelly and Andrew Tod. ‘They have made an Irishwoman of you now, and may they know the value of the daughter they adopted into their country.’ Elizabeth Grant’s sister The early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, so memorably recorded in her Memoirs of a Highland Lady has had an avid readership since the book’s first publication in 1898. This volume takes up the story after she arrives in Ireland, following her marriage to Colonel Smith of Baltiboys. This journal, begun in 1840, will be recognisable to her many followers by the charm, vigour and intelligence that fill every page. They vividly depict the day to day life of her family, her immense efforts to improve the Baltiboys estate and how she coped with the terrible ravages of famine. Her sharp observations of all classes of society however, from corrupt landowners to the poor and often dissolute farm-workers, make this book a memorable and important chronicle of her times and a unique contribution to the social history of Ireland.

Author : Elizabeth Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
ISBN : 1841584088

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The Highland Lady in Dublin, 1851-1856 by Elizabeth Grant Pdf

Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, 'The Highland Lady' whose Memoirs and Diaries are such a vivid and individual record of the first half of her long life in Scotland, England, India, France and Ireland, continued to keep a journal during the 1850s.

Author : Maria Luddy
Publisher : Cork University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1859180388

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Women in Ireland, 1800-1918 by Maria Luddy Pdf

Women in Ireland 1800-1918 presents a valuable and significant collection of over 100 sources and documents relating to the public and private aspects of women's lives in Ireland during the period 1800-1918. The documents reveal aspects of the women's working lives, educational experiences, involvement in politics and of their private lives such as contraception, childbirth, love, marriage and religion. Each section has a comprehensive introduction which discusses the contents of the documents. As the first major survey of Irish women's lives during this period, it will appeal to those who want a deeper understanding of how women of all classes lived their lives and it will prove indispensable to second and third level students, those attending women's studies courses, as well as a wide general readership interested in assessing the role of women in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Irish history.

Author : Elizabeth Grant
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847674906

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Memoirs Of A Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant Pdf

Edited and introduced by Andrew Tod. ‘I was born on the 7th May 1797 of a Sunday evening at No. 5 N. side of Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, in my father’s own lately built house and I am the eldest of five children he and my mother raised to maturity.’ Thus opens one of the most famous set of memoirs ever written. Since its first bowdlerised edition in 1898, they have been consistently in print. This is the first ever complete text. Written between 1845 and 1854 the memoirs were originally intended simply for Elizabeth’s family, but these vivid and inimitable records of life in the early 19th century, and above all on the great Rothiemurchus estate, full of sharp observation and wit, form an unforgettable picture of her time. The story ends with the thirty-three-year-old Elizabeth finding her own future happiness in marriage to an Irish landowner, Colonel Smith of Baltiboys. ‘A masterpiece of historical and personal recall.’ Scotsman

Author : Seamus Deane,Andrew Carpenter,Angela Bourke,Jonathan Williams
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 1756 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0814799078

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The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing by Seamus Deane,Andrew Carpenter,Angela Bourke,Jonathan Williams Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Grant
Publisher : New Island Books
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
ISBN : 1904301940

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The Highland Lady in Dublin, 1851-1856 by Elizabeth Grant Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Grant,Patricia Pelly
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017797841

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A Highland Lady in France, 1843-1845 by Elizabeth Grant,Patricia Pelly Pdf

Beginning in 1843, this journal describes the experiences of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus during time spent in France. It depicts her day-to-day life, whilst also offering insights into French society and matters, and British political events.

Author : Lucy Hartley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137584656

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880 by Lucy Hartley Pdf

This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensation. The result is a richly textured account of a radical and complex process of feminization whereby formal innovations in the different modes of writing by women became central to the aesthetic, social, and political formation of British culture and society in the nineteenth century.

Author : Douglas Gifford
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748672660

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History of Scottish Women's Writing by Douglas Gifford Pdf

This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.

Author : Elizabeth L. Ewan,Sue Innes,Sian Reynolds,Rose Pipes
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748626601

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Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen by Elizabeth L. Ewan,Sue Innes,Sian Reynolds,Rose Pipes Pdf

This single-volume dictionary presents the lives ofindividual Scottish women from earliest times to the present. Drawing on newscholarship and a wide network of professional and amateur historians, itthrows light on the experience of women from every class and category inScotland and among the worldwide Scottish diaspora.The BiographicalDictionary of Scottish Women is written for the general reading public andfor students of Scottish history and society. It is scholarly in itsapproach to evidence and engaging in the manner of its presentation. Eachentry makes sense of its subject in narrative terms, telling a story ratherthan simply offering information. The book is as enjoyable to read as it iseasy and valuable to consult. It is a unique and important contribution tothe history of women and Scotland.The publisher acknowledges support fromthe Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Executive Equalities Unit towardsthe publication of this title.

Author : James H. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198187318

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The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume IV by James H. Murphy Pdf

Volume IV: The Irish Book in English 1800-1891 details the story of the book in Ireland during the nineteenth century, when Ireland was integrated into the United Kingdom. The chapters in this volume explore book production and distribution and the differing of ways in which publishing existed in Dublin, Belfast, and the provinces.

Author : Trevor Parkhill
Publisher : Ulster Historical Foundation
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1903688035

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Familia 2000: Ulster Geneological Review: Number 16 by Trevor Parkhill Pdf

"Familia, " which was first published in 1985, aims to provide informed writing on sources and case studies relating to that area where Irish history and genealogy overlap with mutual benefit. Members of the Foundation's Guild receive "Familia "and the "Directory of Irish Family History Research" as part of the return on their annual subscription.

Author : Ciarán Ó Murchadha
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847252173

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The Great Famine by Ciarán Ó Murchadha Pdf

An engaging and moving account of this most destructive event in Irish history.

Author : James S Donnelly Jr
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780752486932

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The Great Irish Potato Famine by James S Donnelly Jr Pdf

In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, changing the country forever. During and after this terrible human crisis, the British government was bitterly accused of not averting the disaster or offering enough aid. Some even believed that the Whig government's policies were tantamount to genocide against the Irish population. James Donnelly's account looks closely at the political and social consequences of the great Irish potato famine and explores the way that natural disasters and government responses to them can alter the destiny of nations.

Author : M. Kelsall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403990457

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Literary Representations of the Irish Country House by M. Kelsall Pdf

This innovative new study examines the significance given to the country house in Ireland under the Union and how this is represented in the works of Edgeworth, Lever, Trollope, Martin and Somerville, Bowen and Lady Gregory. The Irish country house is set in a classical and European context as the centre for 'the good life' and the pinnacle of 'civilisation'. In Ireland, that inherited tradition was challenged by an alternative culture nominated as 'savage'. This book explores how the Irish country house was the focus of conflict between and symbiosis of 'civilisation' and 'savagery'.