Anne MacVicar Grant manuscript material

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{"value"=>"Grant, Anne MacVicar, 1755-1838", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"Anne MacVicar Grant manuscript material"}

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{"value"=>"1824-1832", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1824/1832"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· To The Rev. Dr. Macintosh Mackay, minister : 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Nov 1832 : (MISC 3713) : on the subject of a deceased friend, and on church matters.</p><p>· To the Rev. Thomas Maude at 30 Castle Street : 1 autograph letter : ca. 22 Dec 1824 : (MISC 1573) : signature omitted ; with attribution in ink in the hand of Maude ; begins, \"The meeting of a very punctilious young Gentleman & a very unceremonious old Lady was very likely to produce misapprehension ...\".</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Anne Grant, née MacVicar, Scottish writer. To help alleviate her family's poverty following the death of her husband, she published a collection of poetry in 1803. The success of her first book led her to put out several others over the next decade, including Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland (1811), and Letters from the Mountains (1806), in which she calls Mary Wollstonecraft \"the empress of female philosophers.\".</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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1824

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1824

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1832

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1824

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1832

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2 items

prefercite

{"value"=>"Anne MacVicar Grant manuscript material : 2 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

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{"value"=>"Anne Grant, n&#xE9;e MacVicar, Scottish writer. To help alleviate her family's poverty following the death of her husband, she published a collection of poetry in 1803. The success of her first book led her to put out several others over the next decade, including Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland (1811), and Letters from the Mountains (1806), in which she calls Mary Wollstonecraft \"the empress of female philosophers.\". &#xB7; To The Rev. Dr. Macintosh Mackay, minister : 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Nov 1832 : (MISC 3713) : on the subject of a deceased friend, and on church matters.", "generated"=>true}

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