Life, letters & low tide in Shetland: Valda and MacDiarmid

“Valda is clearly the more practical of the two. It would become apparent that without her at the helm, they were doomed.”

Shetland offered Hugh MacDiarmid solitude, but it was his wife Valda Trevlyn Grieve who kept life steady. Dr Colin McIlroy of the National Library of Scotland examines the letters of Hugh MacDiarmid & Valda Trevlyn Grieve

https://www.nls.uk/collections/stories/literature-and-poetry/valda-grieve-and-hugh-macdiarmid/

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Life, letters and low tide in Shetland: Valda and MacDiarmid | National Library of Scotland

Letters between Valda Trevlyn Grieve and her husband, poet Hugh MacDiarmid, shine a light on a story of hardship, creativity, and devotion.

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