Willett, Perry, and Perry Willett, editors. “Victorian Women Writers Project”. Indiana University.
National Library of Scotland
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Elisabeth Wast | The title is the same one given to the posthumous memoirs of Catharine Colace Ross
, published eleven years later. The National Library of Scotland
holds a copy of this edition, of which most standard... |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | Manuscripts by ET
are held by the National Library of Scotland
. |
Textual Production | Maud Sulter | The same publisher brought out her Unrequited, apparently undated. Even the National Library of Scotland
(which listed both Service to Empire and Unrequited in its catalogue without having seen copies) is uncertain whether or... |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark | MS
approached the process of writing in a manner characteristically savouring of magical ritual. She wrote in longhand, seldom revising, and never used a pen anyone else had touched. Her notebooks were of a particular... |
Reception | Felicia Skene | Although FS
is not widely known today, some of her books have been reprinted in the last twenty years. A selection of her work is available online from the Victorian Women Writers Project
. |
Textual Production | Nan Shepherd | Unpublished poetry by NS
is held in her archive at the National Library of Scotland
, Manuscripts.27438-45. She disliked talking about her writing, and when asked about it she often deflected inquiries in an almost... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Margaret Sackville | She was one of the circle of artists and intellectuals that gathered at the home of artist John Duncan
(Celtic revivalist and Symbolist), and she was the acknowledged queen (though guest queen) of the unique... |
Textual Production | Catharine Colace Ross | J. Hog
provided a prefatory letter. Manuscripts of her spiritual exercises survive in the National Library of Scotland
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Catharine Colace Ross | CCR
wrote her memoirs in old age, at popular request, finding herself often challenged for not setting down the remarkable Passages of my Life, and of the Divine Goodness manifested to me. Ross, Catharine Colace. Memoirs, or Spiritual Exercises. David Duncan. 5 |
Textual Production | Isabel Pagan | A Collection of Songs and Poems on Several Occasions written by Isobel Pagan
was published at Glasgow: since she was illiterate, she had dictated the text to a friend, William Gemmell
. The British Library |
Textual Production | Margaret Oliphant | MO
's professional correspondence is at the National Library of Scotland
among the Blackwood's papers. Carson-Batchelor, Rhonda Lea. Margaret Oliphant: Gender, Identity, and Value in the Victorian Periodical Press. University of Alberta. 66n7 |
Reception | Willa Muir | |
Publishing | Edith Mary Moore | Her full name (Edith Mary Croucher Moore) appears in connection with this book in OCLC WorldCat though not on its title-page. Cassell
advertised it in the TLS repeatedly until early June, OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (14 January 1909): 11; (3 June 1909): 205; (10 June 1909): 213 |
Publishing | Edith Mary Moore | Again Cassell
placed advertisements in the TLS, but only for a couple of weeks this time. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (21 October 1909): 389 |
Textual Production | Edith Mary Moore | A novel entitled A Wilful Widow, which appeared in 1913, is evidently by EMM
. Difficulties with George Allen
had apparently caused her to change publishers (for the second time) to Constable
. The... |
Timeline
1508: The first printed books in Scotland appeared...
Writing climate item
1508
The first printed books in Scotland appeared from the Edinburgh press of Walter Chepman
and Androw Myllar
.
1689: The Advocates Library was founded in Edinburgh...
Building item
1689
The Advocates Library
was founded in Edinburgh as a working library for the legal profession.
1897: Artisan Phoebe Traquair completed her lavishly...
Building item
1897
Artisan Phoebe Traquair
completed her lavishly illustrated manuscript of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's Sonnets from the Portuguese.
The National Library of Scotland, where the manuscript is housed, notes that the transcriptions are from Traquair's...
31 October 1910: Frances Olive Underhill, a graduate of Royal...
National or international item
31 October 1910
Frances Olive Underhill
, a graduate of Royal Holloway College
, was appointed by E. W. B. Nicholson
Assistant Librarian at the Bodleian
: the first woman so appointed in England, after considerable infighting and...
25 September 1914: Elizabeth (Elsie) Blackall Knocker and Mairi...
National or international item
25 September 1914
Elizabeth (Elsie) Blackall Knocker
and Mairi Lambert Gooden Chisholm
left for Belgium as part of the Flying Ambulance Column
.
7 August 1925: An Act of Parliament established the National...
Building item
7 August 1925
An Act of Parliament established the National Library of Scotland
in Edinburgh.
30 October 1925: Librarian William Kirk Dickson issued to...
Building item
30 October 1925
Librarian William Kirk Dickson
issued to the Rev. Donald J. Ross
the first reader's ticket for the National Library of Scotland
in Edinburgh.
Texts
Scott, Sir Walter. “Papers of Sir Walter Scott”. MSS 3278. 102, 3888.20, 3890. 89, 208, 261, National Library of Scotland, 1817.