Critics have associated some of ST
's writings, including Logie Town, with the kailyard school or genre of Scottish fiction known for rustic sentimentalism. Historian E. A. Baker
wrote that STcultivated the Kailyard...
Timeline
1901: The publication of George Douglas Brown's...
Writing climate item
1901
The publication of George Douglas Brown
's novel The House with the Green Shutters marked the first attack on the Scottish school of fiction that was afterwards known as Kailyard.
Campbell, Ian. Kailyard. Ramsay Head, 1981.
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Blake, George. Barrie and the Kailyard School. Arthur Barker, 1951.
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Dickson, Beth. “Annie S. Swan and O. Douglas: Legacies of the Kailyard”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford et al., Edinburgh University Press, 1997, pp. 329-46.
329, 340
Hart, Francis Russell. The Scottish Novel: From Smollett to Spark. Harvard University Press, 1978.
