The entirity of Dorothy Wordsworth's Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, is, unsurprisingly, set in Scotland. Wordsworth moves from one Scottish location to another as she travels through both countryside and city. The way Wordsworth percieves Scotland is very intersting. In one of her entries, she writes, "We now felt indeed that we were in Scotland; there was a natural peculiarity in this place." Throughout her writings, I often found that she had very little praise for the country as I felt she believed herself superior to it as an Englishwoman.

Despite several previous attempts to merge the two countries (often through war), England and Scotland became two separate countries united as Great Britain under the rule of Queen Anne.