National Library of Scotland

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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 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.
131 and n30
In February 1815 it...
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 Isabella Bird
Her papers, formerly held by the London publishing house of John Murray , are now in the National Library of Scotland . Both the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the Royal Geographical Society hold some...
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...
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...
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.
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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 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...
Textual Production Alison Cockburn
AC 's papers are held by the National Library of Scotland .
Textual Production Helen Craik
This manuscript is National Library of Scotland MS 86. It was privately Printed not Published at Philadelphia in 1914.
Textual Production Lady Margaret Cunningham
Her fuller title was A Parte of the Life of Lady Margaret Cunningham Daughter to the Earle of Glencairn yt [sic] she had with her first husband the Master of Evandale. When she wrote...
Textual Production Alison Fell
AF began the diaries which she later sold to the National Library of Scotland , in which she writes about her experience in journalism and with women's groups.
“Inventory. Acc. 12394. Alison Fell”. National Library of Scotland.
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 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...

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

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.