National Library of Scotland

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Alison Fell
The National Library of Scotland holds a collection of AF 's diaries, notebooks, and drafts of poems, novels, plays, and radio and film scripts, audio recordings, programmes for BBC Radio Scotland , letters, and photos...
Textual Production Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne
The National Library of Scotland and the National Record Office, Scotland , each holds some of COLN 's letters and songs.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Susan Ferrier
The National Library of Scotland has film of SF 's privately owned manuscript diaries, memoirs, and an unfinished novel, Maplehurst Manor, as well as of two of her published novels in manuscript. SF did...
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.
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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 .
Textual Production Anne Halkett
AH wrote on spiritual, political, educational, and moral topics. She expected her meditations to be read after her death, and to be useful to their readers as well as to counter allegations made against herself...
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.
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The result...
Textual Production Joanna Baillie
JB 's letters and other papers survive in the National Library of Scotland , the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons , and elsewhere. Her Collected Letters were edited by Judith Bailey Slagle in...
Textual Production Beatrice Harraden
BH is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
In 1930 she was awarded an annual...
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/.
CCR is one of those included in David George Mullan , ed., Women's Life Writing in...
Textual Production Anne Bannerman
AB contributed translations from Politiano and Antonio Allamanni to Joseph Cooper Walker 's A Historical and Critical Essay on the Revival of the Drama in Italy, 1805.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press.
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In February 1815 it...
Textual Production Frances Sarah Hoey
Her letters to Edmund Downey survive in the National Library of Ireland , while correspondence between her and her publishers is in the British Library and the National Library of Scotland .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 Lady Anne Barnard
Her South African writings are only the most striking of a huge mass of LAB 's personal narratives. At the end of her life she worked hard to burn and put my papers in order...
Textual Production Fanny Holcroft
This work is not held by the British Library , the Bodleian , or Cambridge University Library . OCLC WorldCat lists only four copies of it: three in the USA and one in the National Library of Scotland

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 .

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.

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 .

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.

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.

Texts

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