The Labour and Servitude of Women in the Highlands of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century

If the Highlands are nowadays considered to be the undisputed tourist region of Scotland, such was not the case at the very beginning of the eighteenth century. The Highlands did not attract many visitors, for they were reputed to be a poor and inhospitable land, not easily accessible and peopled with 'savages' whose language was totally incomprehensible to foreigners. The Highlands were then a sort of 'terra incognita', completely isolated and tragically inward-looking.