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The history of the eighteenth-century Highlands has been written as though no woman, other than Flora Macdonald, ever lived there. This is easily understood. A focus on clanship and its martial functions, which has only been intensified by an over-arching preoccupation with the poli tics of Jacobitism, has tended to marginalise the female experience.1 More recent concern with the economics of Highland estates has also ignored the role of women.2 Yet the Highland gentlewoman, trans formed during the decades of the 'long-eighteenth-century', played a significant part in this story. For the character of this transformation not only mirrored aspects of broader change among the Scottish gentry, but was also a significant factor in the changing use of estates and in evolving relationships between the landowning elite and the ordinary people who lived and worked in the Highlands. Most of the women who form the focus of what follows were con

Experience and Expectations in the Transformation of the Highland Gentlewoman, 1680 to 1820