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A history of Scottish women's writing
edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1997.
ISBN: 0748607420   DDC: 820.9928709411   LCC: PR8533  

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [677]-707) and index.

Introduction / Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan -- 1. The Gaelic
Tradition up to 1750 / Anne C. Frater -- 2. Scottish Women Writers
c.1560-c.1650 / Sarah M. Dunnigan -- 3. Old Singing Women and the
Canons of Scottish Balladry and Song / Mary Ellen Brown -- 4. Women
and Song 1750-1850 / Kirsteen McCue -- 5. Selves and Others:
Non-fiction Writing in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
/ Dorothy McMillan -- 6. Burns's Sister / Robert Crawford -- 7. 'Kept
some steps behind him': Women in Scotland 1780-1920 / Catriona
Burness -- 8. Some Early Travellers / Dorothy McMillan -- 9. From
Here to Alterity: The Geography of Femininity in the Poetry of Joanna
Baillie / Amanda Gilroy -- 10. Some Women of the Nineteenth-century
Scottish Theatre: Joanna Baillie, Frances Wright and Helen MacGregor
/ Adrienne Scullion -- 11. The Other Great Unknowns: Women Fiction
Writers of the Early Nineteenth Century / Carol Anderson and Aileen
M. Riddell -- 12. Rediscovering Scottish Women's Fiction in the
Nineteenth Century / Moira Burgess -- 13. Elizabeth Grant / Peter
Butter -- 14. Viragos of the Periodical Press: Constance
Gordon-Cumming, Charlotte Dempster, Margaret Oliphant, Christian
Isobel Johnstone / Ralph Jessop -- 15. Jane Welsh Carlyle's Private
Writing Career / Aileen Christianson -- 16. Beyond 'The Empire of the
Gentle Heart': Scottish Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century /
Valentina Bold -- 17. What a Voice! Women, Repertoire and Loss in the
Singing Tradition / Elaine Petrie -- 18. Margaret Oliphant / Merryn
Williams -- 19. Caught Between Worlds: The Fiction of Jane and Mary
Findlater / Douglas Gifford -- 20. Scottish Women Writers Abroad: The
Canadian Experience / Elizabeth Waterston -- 21. Women and Nation /
Susanne Hagemann -- 22. Annie S. Swan and O. Douglas: Legacies of the
Kailyard / Beth Dickson -- 23. Tales of Her Own Countries: Violet
Jacob / Carol Anderson -- 24. Fictions of Development 1920-1970 /
Margery Palmer McCulloch -- 25. Marion Angus and the Boundaries of
Self / Christopher Whyte -- 26. Catherine Carswell: Open the Door! /
Glenda Norquay -- 27. Willa Muir: Crossing the Genres / Margaret
Elphinstone -- 28. 'To know Being': Substance and Spirit in the Work
of Nan Shepherd / Roderick Watson -- 29. Twentieth-century Poetry I:
Rachel Annand Taylor to Veronica Forrest-Thomson / Dorothy McMillan
-- 30. More Than Merely Ourselves: Naomi Mitchison / Jenni Calder --
31. The Modern Historical Tradition / Moira Burgess -- 32. Jane
Duncan: The Homecoming of Imagination / Lorena Laing Hart and Francis
Russell Hart -- 33. Jessie Kesson / Isobel Murray -- 34. Scottish
Women Dramatists Since 1945 / Jan McDonald -- 35. The Remarkable
Fictions of Muriel Spark / Gerard Carruthers -- 36. Vision and Space
in Elspeth Davie's Fiction / Valentina Poggi -- 37. Designer Kailyard
/ Deirdre Chapman -- 38. Twentieth-century Poetry II: The Last
Twenty-five Years / Dorothy McMillan -- 39. Contemporary Fiction I:
Tradition and Continuity / Douglas Gifford -- 40. Contemporary
Fiction II: Seven Writers in Scotland / Douglas Gifford -- 41.
Contemporary Fiction III: The Anglo-Scots / Flora Alexander -- 42.
The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead / Anne Varty -- 43. Women's
Writing in Scottish Gaelic Since 1750 / Meg Bateman -- Select
Bibliographies of Scottish Women Writers / Fiona Black and Kirsten
Stirling.

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Dewey Class: 820.9928709411 -- English & Old English literatures
LCC Number: PR8533

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Language: eng
Physical Description: xxiii, 716 p. ; 25 cm.

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