Anne Grant, better known as Mrs. Grant of Laggan, a Scottish authoress, born in Glasgow, Feb. 21, 1755, died in Edinburgh, Nov. 7, 1838. Her father, Duncan McVicar, an officer in the British army, was ordered to America while she was a child. He received a grant of land in Vermont, and added to it i by purchase. Ill health obliged him to return to Scotland in 1768, and his lands were confiscated on the breaking out of the revolutionary war. In 1779 Anne married the Rev. James Grant of Laggan, Inverness-shire, and had a large number of children. On his death in 1801 she was left in straitened circumstances, and in 1803 published a volume of poetry, which met with immediate favor. She next published "Letters from the Mountains" (3 vols., London, 1806-'7), which contains descriptions of highland scenery, character, and legends. Her "Memoirs of an American Lady " (2 vols., 1808) gives a pleasant picture of her own childhood and of colonial life in America. Other works are, "Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland" (2 vols., 1811), and " Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen, a Poem " (1814). After 1810 she resided in Edinburgh, and toward the close of her life she received a pension of £100. In 1844 appeared the "Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan" (3 vols.), the memoir being an autobiography, continued by her son, John Peter Grant, who died in Edinburgh in 1871.