Edwin and Willa Muir A Literary Marriage

by McCulloch, Margery Palmer

• ISBN13: 9780192858047
• ISBN10: 0192858041
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-06-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

The late Margery McCulloch, Formerly Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow

Margery Palmer McCulloch was an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. She has written on Neil M. Gunn and Edwin Muir and co-edited the Scottish Literary Review from 2005 to 2013. A key collection of source documents Modernism and Nationalism (2004) was followed by a monograph on Scottish Modernism and its Contexts (2009). She co-edited Scottish and International Modernisms and the Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid (2011). She had just completed this long-researched joint biography of Edwin and Willa Muir, when she suffered a stroke in 2019 and died at the age of 83. She is survived by her husband the painter Ian McCulloch and their two sons, Neil and Euan.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
1. Coming Together
ADVENTURING IN EUROPE
2. Prague and a New Czech Republic
3. Elbflorenz
4. 'North and South'
5. Fête du Citron
PUTTING DOWN ROOTS
6. Early Writings
7. Willa and Womanhood
8. Crowborough and Literary Life
THE POLITICAL THIRTIES
9. Changing Worlds and a Hampstead Idyll
10. Scottish Journeys
11. Scotland and Europe
12. Translating for a Living
A SINGLE, DISUNITED WORLD
13. World War Two in St Andrews
14. Edinburgh and New Poetry
15. The Cold War and Prague Again
16. Roman Interlude
17. Newbattle Abbey
A NEW WORLD
18. American Adventure
19. Swaffham Prior
20. Willa Alone
21. Last Years