Abstract:

The contribution of Katherine Whyte Grant (1845-1928) to nineteenth-century British travel literature about the Romanian lands can easily go unnoticed, not least because she wrote not in English but in her native Scottish Gaelic. This paper focuses particularly on the text “Ceithir-la-deug ann am fion-lios” (“Fourteen days in the vineyard”) in her 1911 volume Aig Tigh na Beinne (“At the mountain house”), with an emphasis on the reflection of her own specific cultural, and, especially, religious, background in her interpretation of the Romanian realities that she observes.

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