 It is often compared as the Romantic counterpart to the better-known Enlightenment-era "A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" (1775) by Samuel Johnson written about 27 years earlier.Dorothy wrote "Recollections" for family and friends and never saw it published in her lifetime.The three travelers were important authors in the burgeoning Romanticism movement and thus the trip itinerary was in part a literary pilgrimage to the places associated with Scottish figures significant to Romanticists such as Robert Burns, Ossian, Rob Roy, William Wallace, and contemporary Sir Walter Scott.