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Paradises Lost: Anne Grant and Late Eighteenth-Century Idealizations of America

Paradises Lost: Anne Grant and Late Eighteenth-Century Idealizations of America pam perkins University of Manitoba Paradises Lost Anne Grant and Late Eighteenth-Century Idealizations of America The inhabitants of New York State in the troubled period between the Seven Years' War and the outbreak of open hostilities with Britain might have been surprised to hear that they were living in an earthly paradise. Yet a pre-adolescent Scottish girl who spent much of the 1760s following her father from one military post to another found Albany and the surrounding wilderness closer to an ideal world than anything she was to encounter at any other time in her life. At least, that was the way that she presented it some 40 years later, when, as an established author back in Britain, she wrote a memoir about her childhood experiences, lamenting the lost idyll of pre-Revolutionary America. While not well-known today, the writer in question, Anne Macvicar Grant, built a reputation for herself in the opening years of the nineteenth century as one of the foremost commentators on Highland Scottish culture. In 1808, however, Grant turned her attention back to the America she had known in her girlhood. Her Memoirs of an American Lady, ostensibly a biography of Catalina (or Margarita) Schuyler, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Paradises Lost: Anne Grant and Late Eighteenth-Century Idealizations of America

Perkins, Pamela Ann.
Early American Literature , Volume 40 (2) – Jun 22, 2005
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pam perkins University of Manitoba Paradises Lost Anne Grant and Late Eighteenth-Century Idealizations of America The inhabitants of New York State in the troubled period between the Seven Years' War and the outbreak of open hostilities with Britain might have been surprised to hear that they were living in an earthly paradise. Yet a pre-adolescent Scottish girl who spent much of the 1760s following her father from one military post to another found Albany and the surrounding wilderness closer to an ideal world than anything she was to encounter at any other time in her life. At least, that was the way that she presented it some 40 years later, when, as an established author back in Britain, she wrote a memoir about her childhood experiences, lamenting the lost idyll of pre-Revolutionary America. While not well-known today, the writer in question, Anne Macvicar Grant, built a reputation for herself in the opening years of the nineteenth century as one of the foremost commentators on Highland Scottish culture. In 1808, however, Grant turned her attention back to the America she had known in her girlhood. Her Memoirs of an American Lady, ostensibly a biography of Catalina (or Margarita) Schuyler,

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