A History of Scottish Women's Writing

by Douglas Gifford (Editor), Dorothy McMillan (Editor), Moira Burgess (Contributor)

This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.

752 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1997

About the author

Douglas Gifford was formerly Chair of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, then Emeritus Professor and Honorary Research Fellow. He wrote extensively on Scottish fiction, including James Hogg (1976), and Neil M. Gunn and Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1983).