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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...
Friends, Associates Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Another relation with whom she became friendly on this trip, William Dickson , visited JFLW in the mid 1870s with his sons, of whom the elder, then in his teens, was William Kirk Dickson ...
names Lady Margaret Cunningham
  • BirthName: Margaret Cunningham
    She kept her birth name according to Scottish practice, and signed it with this spelling, if the National Library of Scotland 's copy made from her manuscript has represented her faithfully. The...
politics Mary Howitt
MH 's devotion to women's causes lasted her life through. Around 29 January 1879 something moved her to declare her allegiance on a sheet of paper now in the National Library of Scotland : I...
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. 1992–1998, 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
OCLC WorldCat lists (in 2010) just two copies: in the British Library and the...
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 .
Willett, Perry, and Perry Willett, editors. “Victorian Women Writers Project”. Indiana University.
The...
Reception Frances Browne
Browne's applications to the Royal Literary Fund survive in the Fund's archive (available on microfilm), and the National Library of Ireland has two letters she wrote in 1844. The National Library of Scotland holds several...
Reception Willa Muir
Perhaps because WM 's writing career ran alongside that of her more famous husband , and because she published in collaboration with him, her own work has been subordinated to his and for a time...
Reception Sarah Grand
At her death, SG left all her manuscripts, copyrights, and published works to her step-granddaughter, Elizabeth Genevieve Bernadine Crawford Haldane McFall , daughter of Haldane McFall .
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983.
334-5, 100
Her letters and papers are now...
Textual Production Caroline Bowles
Bowles maintained a cordial relationship with publisher William Blackwood , but her dealings with his sons Alexander and Robert were somewhat colder. It seems that she frequently made arrangements to receive books as remuneration for...
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...
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...
Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
The Dictionary of Literary Biography suggests that LCB earned on average about £200 for each of her books. Some of her papers survive in the National Library of Scotland .
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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Textual Production Catherine Carswell
Letters exchanged by John Buchan with CC and her husband are in the National Library of Scotland . Her son carefully preserved tin trunks full of her manuscripts and papers, which he sorted through at...

Timeline

1508: The first printed books in Scotland appeared...

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1508

The first printed books in Scotland appeared from the Edinburgh press of Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar .
“First Scottish Books”. NLS: National Library of Scotland.

1689: The Advocates Library was founded in Edinburgh...

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1689

The Advocates Library was founded in Edinburgh as a working library for the legal profession.
“A Brief History”. NLS: National Library of Scotland.
“The Advocates Library”. The Faculty of Advocates.

1897: Artisan Phoebe Traquair completed her lavishly...

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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...

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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...

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25 September 1914

Elizabeth (Elsie) Blackall Knocker and Mairi Lambert Gooden Chisholm left for Belgium as part of the Flying Ambulance Column .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“The Nurse’s Story”. Experiences of War.

7 August 1925: An Act of Parliament established the National...

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7 August 1925

An Act of Parliament established the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.
“The First Reader’s Ticket”. NLS: National Library of Scotland.

30 October 1925: Librarian William Kirk Dickson issued to...

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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.
“The First Reader’s Ticket”. NLS: National Library of Scotland.

Texts

Scott, Sir Walter. “Papers of Sir Walter Scott”. MSS 3278. 102, 3888.20, 3890. 89, 208, 261, National Library of Scotland, 1817.