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She was an avid reader and possibly the best-documented eighteenth-century
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Broadley, who died two years later, and they had two children. After the death of her brother, the 18th Baron of Kilravock, and a five-year long contest over succession rights, she was granted title to most of the estates, including Kilravock. In
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Mackenzie gave Robert Burns a letter of introduction to Rose before Burns’ Highland tour in 1787. During one of Burns’ visits with Rose he was entertained by Rose's niece, who sang two
Highland airs. At Burns request, Rose wrote down and sent these songs to him. In 1796 one of these songs was
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Rose developed a literary reputation mainly because of her ‘indiscriminate and voracious reading’. This marked her out ‘in a country where there was little learning in either sex.' She shared her reading with others as she actively sought to cultivate a specific philosophy of reading in
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She kept a journal from 1771 until 1815. Within these journals she recorded every book she read and collected passages from those books in a series of voluminous commonplace books. They also included other things she valued or needed. She kept financial records of estate business,
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She was a prolific letter writer and she is now best known for her correspondence with her cousin Henry
Mackenzie. Mackenzie wrote Rose 127 letters spanning the years 1768 to 1815. These, or extracts from them, were published in
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Kilravock estate. Her son,
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Amongst other things, the letters show that
Mackenzie shared excerpts from his books and asked her for her opinion on the novel as he was writing it. Having sent her chapters from
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Stewart, Keith (1969). "Reviewed work: Letters to
Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock: On Literature, Events, and People, 1768–1815, Henry MacKenzie, Horst W. Drescher".
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described her as ‘a true chieftain's wife, a daughter of
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Her own style of writing…was not natural, and she has scarcely written anything worthy of being preserved for its intrinsic qualities - Hew Rose
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