From 2024: Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman examines the representation of English & Scottish national stereotypes in the novels of Scottish authors Susan Ferrier, Mary Brunton, & Elizabeth Hamilton

Part of the Reading Scotland programme at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_OKYRVugZs

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“THE INHERITANCE is, then, a novel concerned with questions of morality and education, but also national identity, the differences between Scottish and English cultures… It is also very funny”

—The University of Stirling’s Books & Borrowing, 1750–1830 project on Susan Ferrier’s THE INHERITANCE

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https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/forgotten-best-sellers-susan-ferriers-the-inheritance-1824/

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“Miss Ferrier avowedly made thumb-nail sketches,—as is proved in one of the few surviving letters to or from her,—out of which grew the merciless caricatures that created her fame”

—an 1893 article in The Atlantic, contrasting Ferrier & Austen

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1893/06/miss-austen-and-miss-ferrier/529989/

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“…the foibles of the Scottish characters are usually much less detestable than those of the English…”

Untrammelled by Theory: Susan Ferrier’s Polyphonic Vision of Scotland & the Union in MARRIAGE
—Benjamine Toussaint, SLR 8/1, 2016 – via Project MUSE

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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/619276

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A 1996 BBC radio adaptation of MARRIAGE by Patricia Hannah was repeated earlier this year on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Sadly it’s not currently available but it might come back again. Among the endless churn of Austen dramatisations it would be refreshing to see a version of Ferrier’s MARRIAGE adapted for TV …

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nn0f

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We republished Susan Ferrier’s MARRIAGE in 2020—using the text of the acid-sharp 1819 2nd edition rather than the sentimentalised Victorian 4th edition of 1841. You can read the first chapter online here:

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https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/63106258/marriage-a-novel-by-susan-ferrier-vol-1-ch-1

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“Nothing could be so delightful as the style of living in Scotland; the people were so frank and gay, and the manners so easy and engaging…”

Ferrier’s MARRIAGE looks at what happens when #romantic notions of the Highlands meet cold, damp reality…

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/marriage/

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