Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as They Existed Previous to the RevolutionAppleton, 1846 - 295 páginas With Sketches of Manners and Scenes in America as they existed previous to the Revolution. Mrs. Grant of Laggan, as she was called, spent several years of her childhood in America, where her father was in the military service, returning to Scotland in 1770, at the age of fifteen. The “ American lady ” who is here described is Mrs. Schuyler of Albany, an aunt of Gen. Schuyler, a lady of great character and intelligence, in whose household the young Scotch girl was for some time on a very intimate footing. The volume shows a remarkable tenacity of memory, as well as a graceful and animated pen. The first forty-three chapters (out of sixty-six) are of a general nature, giving a lively sketch of society and manners among the Dutch families at Albany, and a somewhat detailed history of the Schuyler family. The rest of the volume describes the author's own experiences, chiefly at Oswego, where her father's regiment was stationed, and afterwards at Albany. |
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... received from Mr. GRANT THORBURN , of New York , the ensuing letter , which is so characteristic of the parties , and so apposite , that we prefix it to the work ; as the recent and final attestation of the narrator to the fidelity of ...
... received them with manifest attention and regard . Calm and resigned , she ceased to live in 1838 , being then eighty - five years of age . I was in Edinburgh in 1834 ; and on the morning of February the fifth , I called at her house to ...
... received ample returns of various information from those best qualified to give it ; he was , besides , a diligent observer . Here he improved a taste for literature , native to him , for it had not yet taken root in this uncultivated ...
... received in a manner we should think very cold . No one rose to welcome you ; no one wondered you had not come sooner , or apologized for any deficiency in your entertainment . Din- ner , which was very early , was served exactly in the ...
... received wore off by degrees . They could not accommodate their topics to you , and scarcely attempted it . But the conversation of the old , though limited in regard to subjects , was rational and easy , and had in it an air of origi ...
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