“Certain individuals live delusionally, thinking they’re perfect, and so The Delusions was me asking, ‘What if everyone had to face who they really are?’, even if it doesn’t happen in this life but in the next. The only real value you have is your soul.”
—SNACK Magazine interviews Jenni Fagan about her new novel, THE DELUSIONS
https://snackmag.co.uk/jenni-fagan-the-delusions-souls-complicity-and-instinct-interview
I wad ha’e gi’en him my lips tae kiss,
Had I been his, had I been his…
—“Mary’s Song”, by Marion Angus (1865–1946) – born #OTD, 27 March
published in THE TINKER’S ROAD and Other Verses (1924)
“She has an authentic voice straight out of the ballad tradition, an eerie shimmer to her best poems”
—Kathleen Jamie
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #womenwriters #Scots #Scotslanguage
The Camomile: An Invention
Catherine Carswell
Published by the British Library Women Writers series in 2024: Catherine Carswell’s 1922 novel of a woman’s struggle for a fully realised, independent, creative life – a Scottish forerunner to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
4/4
“the novel we made the strongest case for was THE CAMOMILE by Catherine Carswell … mainly because of the energy, humour and sheer readability”
—The National Library of Scotland blog on making recommendations to the British Library’s Women Writers series
3/4
https://blog.nls.uk/the-camomile-by-catherine-carswell-is-back-in-print/
“Military moustache, boxer’s broken nose, narrowed stare, that glint of menace some women find irresistible. I was face-to-face with Herbert Jackson”
—Ajay Close on WHAT WE DID IN THE DARK: her novel of Catherine Carswell’s disastrous first marriage
2/4
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/opening-doors-how-i-wrote-what-we-did-in-the-dark/
For me, writing is a trade, like plumbing or joinery. Doubtless some writers are extraordinary human beings living extraordinary lives, most are not. However fanatical I may feel about the work of certain writers, I don’t need to know who they slept with. As for novels about writers, I actively avoid them. But, reader, I […]
“The life & career of the gifted Glaswegian writer Catherine Carswell was marked by such alarming & recurrent notoriety that her present obscurity is baffling”
—Emma Garman in the Paris Review on the life & work of Catherine Carswell (1879–1946)—born #OTD, 27 March
1/4
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/10/feminize-your-canon-catherine-carswell/
Part 2:
https://rss.com/podcasts/the-scottish-food-history-podcast/1932954/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #folklore #foodhistory #podcast
In this special part 2 episode, Dr Lindsay Middleton and Peter Gilchrist dive back into the legacy of Florence Marian McNeill. With the help of Dr Gina Lyle, this episode examines how Florence changed Scotland and we hear, in her own words, where it all started.
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit/116295049247030578
There are 2 episodes of the Scottish Food History Podcast on the life and legacy of Florence Marian McNeill. Presented by Dr Lindsay Middleton and Peter Gilchrist, with guests Jeremy Lee and Dr Gina Lyle.
Part 1:
https://rss.com/podcasts/the-scottish-food-history-podcast/1922679/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #folklore #foodhistory #podcast
“This is a perfect, hearty, oat-y bread with a lovely ginger flavor. It’s delicious and moist when fresh, but still excellent toasted and buttered the next day”
The History in the Making website shares F. Marian McNeill’s recipe for Broonie, a traditional oatmeal gingerbread from Orkney
4/4
https://history-in-the-making.com/2021/02/21/broonie/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #folklore #foodhistory #Orkney #recipes
In 2025, Birlinn published a new edition of F. Marian McNeill’s A SCOTS KITCHEN, edited & introduced by Catherine Brown & illustrated by Iain McIntosh
3/4
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-scots-kitchen-2/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #folklore #foodhistory #cookbooks
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