View of the Highland Lady

When I used to study and teach history one of my favourite sources was Memoirs of a Highland Lady and today I visited her childhood home, The Doune, on a Highland Lady Landrover safari. It was great fun and I really liked it. I am sure Elizabeth Grant would have looked out of this window at some time. Details of her book and a bit from the preface are detailed below.
MEMOIRS OF A HIGHLAND LADY THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ELIZABETH GRANT OF ROTHIEMURCHUS AFTERWARDS MRS. SMITH OF BALTIBOYS
1797-1830
EDITED BY LADY STRACHEY 1898
THESE Memoirs were written by Mrs. Smith for her own
children, and the daughter of her sister Mrs. Gardiner, with no
thought but to interest them in those scenes of her early life
which she recalled so vividly, and has narrated with such lively
simplicity. They were privately printed by subscription in
order to make them more accessible to those whose interest in
the actors and the deeds of that past time is a personal one;
and in this form they have proved so attractive that the writer's
daughter, Mrs. King, has consented to publish them. The fact
that their issue was at first a private one will account for the
closeness of the printed text; which is, however, so clear that it
is hoped the reader will not be deterred by it from a perusal of
the volume.
Mrs. Smith began writing her recollections in 1845, during
a visit of some length to Avranches, and concluded the portion
here printed in 1867.