WorkAnne MacVicar Grant

Memoirs of an American Lady

Memoirs of an American Lady, with Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as They Existed Previous to the Revolution (1808), Inferred

Anne MacVicar Grant (1755–1838) · 1808

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Documented 1843–1845

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York3records

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“Mrs. Grant speaks thus of the position of woman amid the Mohawk Indians: "Lady Mary Montague says, that the court of Vienna was the paradise of old women...”

Inferred Grant' explicitly and provides a lengthy block quotation about the position of Mohawk women. Anne MacVicar Grant of Laggan's Memoirs of an American Lady (1808) drew on her childhood years near Albany, NY, and includes detailed observations of Mohawk Indian customs. Fuller also compares Grant's observations favorably to Mrs. Grant's seems much nearer the truth').

“But these, even Sir William Johnston, whose life, surrounded by the Indians in his castle on the Mohawk, is described with such vivacity by Mrs. Grant”

Inferred Grant' as having described Sir William Johnson's life on the Mohawk 'with such vivacity.' This is Anne MacVicar Grant (1755–1838), Memoirs of an American Lady, with Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America (London, 1808). The book describes the Albany and Mohawk Valley world before the Revolution, including the life of Sir William Johnson among the Mohawk.

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“I have mislaid an extract from "The Memoirs of an American Lady"... Mrs. Grant expresses a wish that Reformers would take a hint from observation of this circumstance...”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

1845—

The North American Review.

“The North American Review.”

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“The “Memoirs of an American Lady” may be inaccurate in details and chronological arrangement, but it cannot be doubted that it gives the spirit which pervaded the life of the early Albanian settlers”

Fuller, Margaret. "The North American Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 January 1845. · 13 January 1845

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Journal 1837–1843

pp. 45–48

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“Mrs Grant's American Lady / What Mrs Grant saw was chiefly from / hearsay and told her in the years / of childhood, before she had in / her mind principles under which / to classify.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1837–1843." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5.