Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Recollections of a Scottish Novelist
A group of very little children, all dressed up and starched out, were being shepherded along the corridor of an English country house, to be ushered into the dining-room with dessert, according to the fashion of a bygone period - when one of them, the youngest, called a halt outside the door, and lifting up her face to the solemn butler in charge, demanded of him to blow her nose for her.
This is my earliest recollection; for the suppliant was myself, and I was but three years of age. The country house was Park Place, near Henley - on - Thames, the residence of my grandparents, Mr and Mrs fuller-maitland, where my mother was born, and from which she was married in 1834.
My mother was one of a large family, twelve in all, of whom there are at the present time many descendants in various parts of England but she alone crossed the Border for a husband, and the story of her wedding the son of a Highland chief is rather dramatic, and, as all concerned are long since dead, may fearlessly be told.
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