A History of Scottish Women's Writing

by Gifford, Douglas; McMillan, Dorothy

• ISBN13: 9780748609161
• ISBN10: 0748609164
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-07-22
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

The first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing, featuring writers such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark, and Liz Lochhead.

Table of Contents

Introduction A History of Scottish Women's Writing	p. ix
Notes	p. xxii
The Gaelic Tradition Up to 1750	p. 1
Notes	p. 13
Scottish Women Writers C.1560-C.1650	p. 15
Notes	p. 39
Old Singing Women and the Canons of Scottish Balladry and Song	p. 44
Notes	p. 56
Women and Song 1750-1850	p. 58
Notes	p. 67
Selves and Others: Non-Fiction Writing in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries	p. 71
Notes	p. 88
Burns's Sister	p. 91
Notes	p. 101
'Kept Some Steps Behind Him': Women in Scotland 1780-1920	p. 103
Notes	p. 117
Some Early Travellers	p. 119
Notes	p. 140
From Here to Alterity: The Geography of Femininity in the Poetry of Joanna Baillie	p. 143
Notes	p. 155
Some Women of the Nineteenth-Century Scottish Theatre: Joanna Baillie, Frances Wright and Helen Macgregor	p. 158
Notes	p. 175
The Other Great Unknowns. Women Fiction Writers of the Early Nineteenth Century	p. 179
Notes	p. 193
Rediscovering Scottish Women's Fiction in the Nineteenth Century	p. 196
Elizabeth Grant	p. 208
Notes	p. 215
Viragos of the Periodical Press: Constance Gordon-Cumming) Charlotte Dempster, Margaret Oliphant, Christian Isobel Johnst1	p. 216
Notes	p. 228
Jane Welsh Carlyle's Private Writing Career	p. 232
Notes	p. 243
Beyond 'The Empire of the Gentle Heart': Scottish Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century	p. 246
Notes	p. 259
What A Voice! Women, Repertoire and Loss in the Singing Tradition	p. 262
Notes	p. 272
Margaret Oliphant	p. 274
Notes	p. 289
Caught Between Worlds: The Fiction of Jane and Mary Findlater	p. 291
Notes	p. 307
Scottish Women Writers Abroad: The Canadian Experience	p. 309
Notes	p. 314
Women and Nation	p. 316
Notes	p. 326
Annie S. Swan and O. Douglas: Legacies of the Kailyard	p. 329
Notes	p. 345
Tales of Her Own Countries: Violet Jacob	p. 347
Notes	p. 357
Fictions of Development 1920-1970	p. 360
Notes	p. 371
Marion Angus and the Boundaries of Self	p. 373
Notes	p. 387
Catherine Carswell: Open the Door!	p. 389
Notes	p. 398
Willa Muir: Crossing the Genres	p. 400
Notes	p. 414
'To Know Being': Substance and Spirit in the Work of Nan Shepherd	p. 416
Notes	p. 426
Twentieth-Century Poetry I: Rachel Annand Taylor to Veronica Forrest-Thomson	p. 428
Notes	p. 442
More Than Merely Ourselves: Naomi Mitchison	p. 444
Notes	p. 454
The Modern Historical Tradition	p. 456
Notes	p. 466
Jane Duncan: The Homecoming of Imagination	p. 468
Notes	p. 480
Jessie Kesson	p. 481
Notes	p. 492
Scottish Women Dramatists Since 1945	p. 494
Notes	p. 512
The Remarkable Fictions of Muriel Spark	p. 514
Notes	p. 524
Vision and Space in Elspeth Davie's Fiction	p. 526
Notes	p. 536
Designer Kailyard	p. 537
Notes	p. 547
Twentieth-Century Poetry Ii: The Last Twenty-Five Years	p. 549
Notes	p. 577
Contemporary Fiction I: Tradition and Continuity	p. 579
Notes	p. 603
Contemporary Fiction Ii: Seven Writers in Scotland	p. 604
Notes	p. 629
Contemporary Fiction III: The Anglo-Scots	p. 630
Notes	p. 640
The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead	p. 641
Notes	p. 657
Women's Writing in Scottish Gaelic Since 1750	p. 659
Conclusion	p. 675
Note	p. 676
Select Bibliographies of Scottish Women Writers	p. 677
Notes on Contributors	p. 708
Index	p. 710
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