Women of the Highlands by Katharine Stewart sampler
What was the crime of the last wich burnt in the Highlands? Which Jacobite lady led men to war while her Hanoverian husband stayed at home? Who were the first Highland women to be recorded in history? And how have wome's lives changed since medieval times? Katharine Stewart takes us to the heart of the Highlands in her history of the women who shaped this land and handed down the legends which have provided a rich vein of material for generations. From the women of the shielings to ladies at court, from bards to conservationists, authors to folk-singers, Women of the Highlands examines how the culture of the Highlands was created and passed down through the centuries, and how the tradition is continuing today.
What was the crime of the last wich burnt in the Highlands?
Which Jacobite lady led men to war while her Hanoverian husband stayed at home?
Who were the first Highland women to be recorded in history?
And how have wome's lives changed since medieval times?
Katharine Stewart takes us to the heart of the Highlands in her history of the women who shaped this land and handed down the legends which have provided a rich vein of material for generations. From the women of the shielings to ladies at court, from bards to conservationists, authors to folk-singers, Women of the Highlands examines how the culture of the Highlands was created and passed down through the centuries, and how the tradition is continuing today.
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women <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> highlands<br />
1806 Letters from <strong>the</strong> Mountains <strong>by</strong> Anne Grant<br />
published<br />
1808 Memoirs <strong>of</strong> an American Lady <strong>by</strong> Anne<br />
Grant published<br />
1811 Essays on <strong>the</strong> Superstitions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Highlands</strong><br />
<strong>by</strong> Anne Grant published<br />
1812 Duchess <strong>of</strong> Gordon died<br />
1821 Màiri Mhór born<br />
1823 Jemima Blackburn born<br />
18th and 19th centuries Emigration and Highland Clearances<br />
1838 Anne Grant <strong>of</strong> Laggan died<br />
1840 Frances Tolmie born<br />
1843 Disruption in Church <strong>of</strong> Scotland<br />
1848 Phaeton <strong>by</strong> Jemima Blackburn hung in <strong>the</strong><br />
Royal Academy<br />
1854 Illustrations from Scripture <strong>by</strong> an Animal<br />
Painter with Notes <strong>by</strong> a Naturalist <strong>by</strong><br />
Jemima Blackburn published<br />
1862 Birds From Nature <strong>by</strong> Jemima Blackburn<br />
published<br />
1872 Education Act<br />
1879 Edinburgh University admits women<br />
1882 Battle <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Braes, Skye<br />
Elizabeth Grant <strong>of</strong> Rothiemurchus died<br />
1886 Cr<strong>of</strong>ters Act<br />
1887 Isabel Frances Grant born<br />
1891 Màiri Mhór’s poetry published<br />
Jemima Blackburn met Beatrix Potter<br />
1895 The Gesto Collection <strong>of</strong> Highland Music ed.<br />
Dr Keith Norman MacDonald published<br />
1898 Death <strong>of</strong> Màiri Mhór naw Oran<br />
A Highland Lady <strong>by</strong> Elizabeth Grant<br />
published<br />
1899–1902 Boer War<br />
1900 First volumes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Carmina Gadelica <strong>by</strong><br />
Alexander Carmichael published<br />
1903 Margaret Fay Shaw born<br />
1909 Jemima Blackburn died<br />
1910 National Vigilance Committee set up to<br />
protect Highland girls working in cities<br />
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