MRS. ANNE GRANT BIOGRAPHY

MRS. ANNE GRANT BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.

GRANT, MRS. ANNE (M'VICAR) (1755-1838). —Was born in Glasgow, and in 1779 m. the Rev. James Grant, minister of Laggan, Inverness-shire. She pub. in 1802 a vol. of poems. She also wrote Letters from the Mountains , and Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlands . After 1810 she lived in Edin., where she was the friend of Sir W. Scott and other eminent men, through whose influence a pension of £100 was bestowed upon her .