Moira Burgess

Standard Name: Burgess, Moira

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Willa Muir
While living in Prague and Hellerau from 1921 to 1923, WM wrote a number of sketches depicting her experiences in these cities.She sent these to an agent in London, but they were all rejected.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press, 1968.
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Literary responses Sarah Tytler
Recent critics cite Logie Town as ST 's most representative and effective work. The true heart and soul of the novel,, writes the scholar Moira Burgess , is its picture of Logie ....
Reception Catherine Sinclair
Moira Burgess , writing on Scottish women's fiction, found Beatrice's tone and sentiment a startling departure from Sinclair's earlier work, but concluded that in those disturbing mid-century years of industrial revolution and sudden Irish...

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Texts

Burgess, Moira. “Annie S. Swan”. SLAINTE: Information and Libraries Scotland: Scottish Authors.
Burgess, Moira. “Rediscovering Scottish Women’s Fiction in the Nineteenth Century”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, 1997, pp. 196-07.