A History of Scottish Women's WritingDouglas Gifford, Dorothy McMillan Edinburgh University Press, 1997 - 716 pages This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women. |
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The Gaelic Tradition up to 1750 | 1 |
Scottish Women Writers c 1560c 1650 | 15 |
Old Singing Women and the Canons of Scottish | 44 |
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