Edwin Muir

WM , a twentieth-century Scotswoman, wrote in fiction and non-fiction about gender inequality, patriarchy, and the repressiveness of Calvinism, but never defined herself as a feminist. She was alert to the devaluing of women's work...

After the war Willa and Edwin Muir moved back to Prague (where they had lived briefly in 1921-2) when Edwin was appointed Director of the city's British Institute (funded by the British Council ).

Both WM and her husband suffered from serious cases in 1919 of the famous influenza epidemic which had hit London the previous autumn. Recently arrived in Prague two years later, in a harsher winter than...

Willa and Edwin Muir left Prague after about three years, shortly before the Communist Party , which had overthrown the elected government, closed Czechoslovakia's borders to foreigners or foreign travel.

WM and her husband hosted a Writers' Circle in their flat in Prague. The members of the Circle were young Czech writers, and discussions were often as much about Czech politics as about work-in-progress...

After a year in Italy, Willa and Edwin Muir returned to Scotland, this time to Dalkeith, near Edinburgh where Edwin became warden of Newbattle Abbey College .

After attending the theatre regularly in Prague in 1921-2, WM began planning a play on a biblical theme, to dramatize in modern terms the situation in which Noah and his family found themselves once the...

WM spent an academic year in the USA, where Edwin Muir was Charles Eliot Norton Professor for the year at Harvard University , at the invitation of the poet Archibald MacLeish .

The question of the extent to which the couple collaborated in general is central to scholarship on WM , whose writing and translating career has been overshadowed by her husband 's literary legacy. Translations she...

After their year in the United States, Willa and Edwin Muir returned to England and settled at Priory Cottage, Swaffham Prior, near Cambridge.

Standard reference sources list Edwin Muir as co-translator of this work. The volume was reprinted on its own by the Limited Editions Club in 1987 and with other Muir translations of...

WM 's husband, the poet Edwin Muir , died. She wrote later: I could not believe it possible for me to be alive and for him to be dead. . . . We belonged together...

WM and Edwin Muir finished their translation of the Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka in 1952. Then in 1958, the year before Edwin 's death, they finished another Kafka translation: Parables and Paradoxes...

Eleven years after the death of her husband , WM died of heart failure in hospital at Dunoon on the Isle of Bute.

WM had a Shetlander's particular interest in the Auvergnat language: a local dialect of Occitan (which itself proved to be the historically non-dominant form of French). The owners and operators of the Samson Press were...