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I wish I lived in Europe so that I could get to see this exhibition without spending a bloody fortune on airfares!
#Photography #Bauhaus #WomenPhotographers #Modernism #20thCentury #Germany #Berlin
A superlative Berlin exhibition gathers over 300 photographs by the overlooked women of the Bauhaus.Malcolm Forbes (Engelsberg ideas)
“the challenge that Hind’s novel puts to later working-class fiction is profound”
Proletarian Nights in Archie Hind’s THE DEAR GREEN PLACE
Corey Gibson, Studies in Scottish Literature 50/1 (2025)
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This article argues for a reappraisal of Archie Hind's landmark Glasgow novel The Dear Green Place (1966), which represents the conflation and combination of long histories of class formation with the grind of everyday labours, and a provocation abou…Scholar Commons
The manuscript for Archie Hind’s THE DEAR GREEN PLACE, along with other papers & materials, are now in an archive at the University of Strathclyde
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#Scottish #literature #novel #20thcentury #workingclass #Glasgow
Archie Hind only published one novel in his lifetime but it was an important one.Pauline McLean (BBC News)
Archie Hind (1928–2008), author of THE DEAR GREEN PLACE, was born #OTD, 3 June
“The only other 20th-century novel I know that places a writer’s struggle in an equally well-imagined city is Nabokov’s THE GIFT”
—Alasdair Gray
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#Scottish #literature #novel #20thcentury #workingclass #Glasgow
Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month for September is the new edition of Archie Hind's classic novel The Dear Green Place, published on the Polygon imprint of Birlinn Ltd.Alistair Braidwood (Scots Whay Hae!)
Josephine Tey – The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey’s 1951 novel THE DAUGHTER OF TIME is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of crime fiction ever. The Lost Ladies of Lit podcast speaks to Tey’s biographer, Jennifer Morag Henderson, about the double life that allowed Tey to rocket to stardom while also flying under the radar in her home town of Inverness
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#Scottish #literature #CrimeFiction #20thcentury #womenwriters #podcast #Inverness
Considered one of the greatest crime novels of all time, Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time flipped 450 years of British history on its head by re-examining Richard III’s purported involvement in the murder of his two young nephews, the Princes i…Kim Askew (Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast)
“the novel we made the strongest case for was THE CAMOMILE by Catherine Carswell … mainly because of the energy, humour and sheer readability”
—The National Library of Scotland blog on making recommendations to the British Library’s Women Writers series
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#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #womenwriters
“The Camomile” by Catherine Carswell is back in printNational Library of Scotland Blog
“The life & career of the gifted Glaswegian writer Catherine Carswell was marked by such alarming & recurrent notoriety that her present obscurity is baffling”
—Emma Garman in the Paris Review on the life & work of Catherine Carswell (1879–1946)—born #OTD, 27 March
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“this is a book that counts Clive Barker, Alan Moore, Michael Moorcock, & Jeff Vandermeer among its admirers … Once you read ARCTURUS, you’re always finding chunks of it here & there, like burning fragments of an exploded spaceship smoldering in a field”
—Dan Schwartz on David Lindsay’s cult status
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#Scottish #literature #ScienceFiction #fantasy #metaphysics #20thCentury #cultfiction #horror
David Lindsay’s masterpiece A Voyage to Arcturus was first published in London in 1920 by Methuen & Co. It came dressed in a simple red cloth cover; no dust jacket, just the title and author’s name debossed into the front...Ben Schwartz (We Are the Mutants)
“The current strength of Scottish weird fiction has its roots in Lindsay’s surreal & stricken work… Lindsay ought to be considered alongside writers like Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson & HP Lovecraft as one of the great proponents of cosmic horror”
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#Scottish #literature #ScienceFiction #fantasy #metaphysics #20thCentury #cultfiction #horror #CosmicHorror #Lovecraft
Although his two greatest works, A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) and The Haunted Woman (1922) were re-issued as Canongate Classics in the 1980s, the work of David Lindsay has never achieved either the critical or popular acclaim he deserves.pookaadmin (The Bottle Imp)
“I can’t begin to convey to you the power of Lindsay’s vision; I found it overwhelming when I first read the book, thirty years ago, & I’ve seldom seen its equal outside Blake.”
—Philip Pullman
David Lindsay (1876–1945) was born #OTD, 3 March – author of A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS & other weird works
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#Scottish #literature #ScienceFiction #fantasy #metaphysics #20thCentury #cultfiction
“In Shepherd’s writing… true learning—like hill-walking—is arduous. True knowledge of the mountains is only possible through the suffering of the body brought on through the relentless motion of the feet.”
—Kerri Andrews on Shepherd’s nature poetics, via @literaryhub
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#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters #Cairngorms #hillwalking
But in the climbing ecstasy of thought, Ere consummation, ere the final peak, Come hours like this. Behind, the long defile, The steep rock-path, alongside which, from under Snow-caves, sharp-corni…Kerri Andrews (Literary Hub)
Currently available on BBC Sounds – Robert Macfarlane celebrates Nan Shepherd’s intrepid literary spirit by embarking on an autumnal poetic pilgrimage right into the heart of her favourite wild places in the Cairngorms
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#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters #Cairngorms
Robert Macfarlane undertakes an immersive poetic pilgrimage to the Cairngorms.BBC
Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) was born #OTD, 11 Feb. Recently her nature writing & her memoir THE LIVING MOUNTAIN have gained attention—but she was also an important modernist novelist. Charlotte Peacock weighs her contribution to Scotland’s literary renaissance
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#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #memoir #WomenWriters
Charlotte Peacock on Nan Shepherd's three remarkable novels: The Quarry Wood, The Weatherhouse and A Pass in the GrampiansGwen Enstam (The Bottle Imp)
“I’m writing about strange people, people on the edge, people that society doesn’t like much”: the precariat in the work of Agnes Owens
—Ronald Paul, Moderna Språk 112/2, 2018
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#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #WorkingClass
“From time to time art publicists in London notice things are being achieved in Scotland and send a television company north to report on it. On one of these occasions an interviewer asked Agnes what made her write that story [‘Arabella’]; she answered, ‘Spite’.”
—Alasdair Gray, “Honest Poverty”: Agnes Owens at 70
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“I don’t write about people that are nice people. They’ve got to be sinners, with a wee touch of goodness here and there, you know.”
Giving “people like that” a voice: a conversation with Agnes Owens (1926–2014) – born #OTD, 24 May
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Agnes Owens was born in Milngavie, near Glasgow, in 1926. After a couple of years of gruelling travel, “marching” around the Highlands of Scotland with husband and baby looking for work, pitching t...Gray, Jane
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Currently available on BBC Sounds – JM Barrie’s haunting play about a girl who never grows up…
Written in the aftermath of WW1, Barrie’s drama about loss & the mystery of life is by turns comic, eerie, & heartbreaking
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#Scottish #literature #20thCentury #drama #WW1
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Although Barrie is remembered today almost exclusively for PETER PAN, he was a prominent 19th-century novelist & the most successful British playwright of the early 20th century.
GATEWAY TO THE MODERN, edited by Valentina Bold & Andrew Nash, explores Barrie’s multifarious career
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#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #ChildrensLiterature #19thcentury #20thCentury #drama #cinema #Victorian #Edwardian
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“I mean they were mostly fighting in places that didn’t belong to them, weren’t they?”
Much of #English #history is neatly summarised in AUNTIE ROBBO, Ann Scott-Moncrieff’s children’s novel that was rejected as being “too Scottish” by London publishers in 1941…
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#Scottish #literature #20thCentury #Orkney #WomenWriters #childrensLiterature #kidlit
Orcadian author Ann Scott-Moncrieff (1914–1943) was born #OTD, 11 January. Lesley Findlay, her daughter, talks about Ann’s life in Orkney, her writing, & her children’s stories—recently republished by Scotland Street Press
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#Scottish #literature #20thCentury #Orkney #WomenWriters #childrensLiterature #kidlit
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Lesley Findlay, daughter of Orcadian author Ann Scott-Moncrieff talks to Scotland Street Press about Ann’s life in Orkney, her writing and her Children's stories which have been republished as a collection by Scotland Street Press.www.scotlandstreetpress.com
AUNTIE ROBBO was, however, published in the USA. Even though (or because) it came with the warning that here was a book “without a shadow or suspicion of a moral”, it sold well & was eventually printed in the UK, first by Constable (1959) & then by Puffin (1962)
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