GRANT, ANNE, commonly called Mrs. Grant of Leggan, a miscel laneous miter, was born at Glasgow on the 21st of February 1755, Her father Duncan Macvicar held a commission iu the army, and served for some time in America before the Revolution. He possessed considerable estates in Vermont, which on the breaking out of tho war were appropriated by the revolutionists, while he did not come within the scheme of compensation to sufferers, as ho resided in Britain during the war. In 1773 ho became barrack-master of Fort Augustus in Inverness-shire, and there his daughter met Mr. Grant, the clergyman of the neighbouring parish of Leggin, to whom she was married in 1779.
Mrs. Grant was left a widow in 1801, with a large family, and in very straitened circumstances. She had for some time shown n taste and talent for poetry, and in 1803 bar friends prevailed on her to publish a volume of 'Original Poems with some Translations from the Gaelic,' which was very successful. From her first resi dence in the Highlands she had studied the position and habits of the people, and written a series of letters on the subject to her intimate friends, from 1773 downwards. She was now prevailed on
to collect these letters, and they were published in 1806 under the title of 'Letters from the Mountains,' one of the most successful of the productions of light literature in its day. She subsequently lived at Edinburgh, where she was the highly esteemed centre of a circle of accomplished and amiable people. Through a long train of domestic calamities, accompanied by bodily infirmities, she preserved an equal serenity of temper, her company was sought by the best Scottish society, and she was even enabled, while carrying on a long war with pecuniary difficulties, to be generous to others. Besides the above works she published ' Memoirs of an American Lady,' in 1808; and 'Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland,' in 1811. She died on the 7th of November 1838.
(Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan, by her Son, 3 vole. 1844.)