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The Irish Diaries of Elizabeth Smith, 1840–1850. Edited by David Thomson and Moyra McGusty Pp xxvi, 326. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1979. £11.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Andrew Todd*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh

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Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1981

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References

1 Memoirs of a Highland lady: the aurobiography Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus afterwards Smith of Baltiboys, published privately in 1898 in an edition prepared by Lady Strachey; this was the basis for three editions in 1898, 191 1 and 1928 from which .Angus Davidson made his selection for a revised edition in 1950.

2 His life with an Anglo-Irish family in the west of Ireland before and during the war has been memorably written about in that enchanting book Woodbrook, published by Barrie and Jenkins in i974 and made available to a wider public through Penguin in 1976.

3 See Hoppen, K. Theodore, I.H.S., 20, no. 80 (Sept. 1977), p. 507.Google Scholar

4 See Moody’s, T W article ‘The first forty years’ in I.H.S., 20, no. 80 (Sept. 1977), p. 377 Google Scholar