Edwin Muir

Standard Name: Muir, Edwin

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Dedications Willa Muir
She relied heavily on her journals for this book, which she dedicated to her late husband .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press, 1968.
prelims
Textual Production Willa Muir
Martin Secker published a translation, listed as by both Willa and Edwin Muir , of Lion Feuchtwanger 's novel Jew Süss.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Features Willa Muir
Though this is technically autobiography, she perhaps tells more about her husband than herself; Aileen Christianson , in her entry on WM in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, calls it more rightly a...
Family and Intimate relationships Willa Muir
Willa Anderson married the future poet and critic Edwin Muir within a year of meeting him, at St Pancras Register Office in London. Friends were sceptical, but their happy marriage lasted forty years.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press, 1968.
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Textual Production Willa Muir
Willa and Edwin Muir spent almost this entire year translatingHermann Broch 's The Sleepwalkers: A Trilogy.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press, 1968.
152
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Literary responses 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...
Residence Willa Muir
Willa and Edwin Muir , neither of whom had ever left the British Isles before, moved to Prague.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press, 1968.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Willa Muir
WM and Edwin Muir published the first English translation of Franz Kafka 's unfinished novelThe Castle (Die Schloss), six years after Kafka's death.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
under Kafka
Residence Willa Muir
Willa and Edwin Muir settled in a small cottage at Penn in Buckinghamshire, without eletricity, gas, or a sewage system; they did not stay long.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press, 1968.
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Textual Production Willa Muir
WM and her husband published their third Kafka translation: the unfinished novel The Trial (originally Der Prozess). Kafka had stopped work on it in 1916, but its first publication in German was not until...
Travel Willa Muir
When WM became pregnant again, she and Edwin Muir decided to leave France for England, since a boy born in France would have been liable later for call-up to do national service in the...
Textual Production Willa Muir
Willa and Edwin Muir published their translation of Kafka 's third unfinished novel, America.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
81, under Franz Kafka
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
politics Willa Muir
Willa and Edwin Muir represented the Scottish division of PEN at the International Congress of PEN in Budapest.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press, 1968.
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Textual Production Willa Muir
A translation by both WM and Edwin Muir of Kafka 's ground-breaking, modernist short storyThe Metamorphosis, written in 1912, was reprinted in a volume entitled Metamorphosis and Other Stories.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Residence Willa Muir
Willa and Edwin Muir moved to the Orkney Islands, off the northeast coast of Scotland (Edwin's native place).
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press, 1968.
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