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This volume provides an overview of women writers in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Edinburgh literary world. Its main focus is on the careers of three women – Elizabeth Hamilton, Anne Grant, and Christian Isobel Johnstone – who were both successful and influential in their own day, although they have tended to be overlooked in later literary history. Hamilton’s work is discussed in the contexts of her lifelong interest in moral philosophy and educational theory, while Grant, admired in her day for her letters, essays, and poetry about the Highlands, is read through eighteenth-century theories of cultural history and primitivism. Johnstone, probably the most obscure of the three today, was perhaps the most influential at the time because of her role as editor of a series of political periodicals; her fiction and journalistic work is examined in the context of the early nineteenth-century Edinburgh magazines.

Scottish fiction --- Scottish literature --- Women authors --- Hamilton, Elizabeth, --- Grant, Anne MacVicar, --- Johnstone, C. I. --- Author of Clan-Albin and Elizabeth de Bruce, --- Author of Wars of the Jews, --- Clan-Albin and Elizabeth de Bruce, Author of, --- Johnstone, Christian Isobel, --- Johnstone, Christina Jane, --- Johnstone, --- Wars of the Jews, Author of, --- Author of Letters on the elementary principles of education, --- Hamilton, Eliza, --- Letters on the elementary principles of education, Author of, --- Author of Letters from the mountains, --- Grant, Anne, --- Grant, --- Letters from the mountains, Author of, --- MacVicar, Anne, --- Dods, Margaret, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- E-books --- Women authors.