She was born in Glasgow, and in 1779 married the Rev. James Grant, minister of Laggan, Invernessshire. She published in 1802 a volume of poems. She also wrote Letters from the Mountains, and Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlands. After 1810 she lived in Edinburgh, where she was the friend of Sir Walter Scott and other eminent men, through whose influence she received a pension of £100.
Anne Underwood Grant was born in Savannah, Georgia to a "Yankee" mother and a most genteel southern father, thirteen years her motherÂ’s senior.
Wary of her chances to earn a living as a playwright, Anne went to work for the North Carolina Arts Council during its early, heady years when local arts councils, galleries and theatres were opening all over the state.
In 1993, with both of her children away at prep schools, Anne made the decision to close the agency and seek a more secluded lifestyle in order to write her novels.
Anne Macvicar Grant (1755-1838), letter writer, essayist, and poet, spent the first half of her life in what many of her contemporaries would have considered exotically primitive surroundings, and she built her literary career on her memories of those places.
AnneGrant died at eighty-three on 7 November, 1838 and was buried in St. Cuthbert's Cemetery in Edinburgh.
Grant and Fletcher were warm friends, but the two women's comments on each other in their autobiographical writing suggest the extent to which, even among women, the highly politicized world of early nineteenth-century literary Edinburgh required careful negotiation of political differences within private friendships.
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