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Tales of a nation: territorial pragmatism in Elizabeth Grant, Maria Edgeworth, and Sydney Owenson.
From: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
Date: 20030922
Author:Hagemann, Susanne
Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus (1797-1885) was born in Edinburgh and brought up in Scotland and England. She spent some time in India, where she married an Anglo-Irish landowner, Colonel Henry Smith. The couple moved to Ireland in 1830. Grant--or Smith--was a prolific diarist. (1) The first decade of her massive output, as edited by Patricia Pelly and Andrew Tod in The Highland Lady in Ireland (1991), tells of her life on her husband's Wicklow estate, Baltiboys, in the years before, during, and after the 1840s Famine. (2) Since it covers the Famine years in considerable detail, ...
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