7. Jan, 2022
Memoirs of a Highland Lady: a special first edition of Elizabeth Grant's delightful autobiography.
What makes this copy particularly special is the artwork that Caroline has added to some of the pages. She was clearly a gifted artist, and the book is adorned throughout with small watercolours, every now and then. I will place the majority of these little drawings on a photo-album page, should anyone be interested to see them.
Elizabeth Grant's Memoirs of a Highland Lady have been a popular book from the time when it was first published in an edition edited by Lady Strachey in 1898. It was reprinted four times in the first year of its issue. I have a copy of this edition, published by John Murray. It is a rather special copy, presented by "George" to Caroline M?. R. Richardson of Knowsley Vicarage in March 1898. The page on which this information can be found also has a photograph of an old lady, Dame Henrietta Philippa Chichele Grant. I believe she was Elizabeth Grant's sister-in-law, and also a friend of Caroline, who writes "This photograph of my dear friend she sent to me as a Christmas card, Christmas 1896."