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“Had a fit of the scunners: heart withered up.”

—Willa Muir (1890–1970) was born #OTD, 13 March, 1890. Her translations of Kafka solidified his reputation in English, & then internationally.

Prof Michelle Woods looks at Willa Muir – a Shetland translator in Prague

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/willa-muir-a-shetland-translator-in-prague/

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Willa Muir: a Shetland Translator in Prague - The Bottle Imp

In her archive at St Andrew’s, Willa Muir stored a clipping from The Scotsman, dated 24 May, 1947. “It was something of a shock, writes a colleague from Prague, to hear a Czech choir singing Ho Ro, mo Nighean Donn Bhoidheach – to say nothing of ‘Ca’ the Yowes tae the Knowes’ and other Scots […]

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“Willa Muir […] is one of these ‘dangerous women’ whose courage, intelligence and imagination helped redefine women’s place in a changing society”

—Margery Palmer McCulloch on Willa Muir, for the Dangerous Women project

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https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/10/30/willa-muir/

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Willa Muir - Scottish PEN - Dangerous Women Project

In our monthly post from Scottish PEN, Margery Palmer McCulloch shows how Willa Muir was "‘dangerous’ in the best creative and cultural sense of the word".

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“Most of the translation, especially Kafka, has been done by ME. Edwin only helped. And every time Edwin was referred to as THE translator, I was too proud to say anything…”
—Willa Muir

Listen to the Dead Ladies’ Show podcast on Willa Muir

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https://deadladiesshow.com/2020/06/17/podcast-34-willa-muir/

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Podcast #34: Willa Muir

In Episode 34, we’re once more in Muenster as guests of the Burg Hülshoff Centre for Literature, which happens to be named after a Dead Lady poet, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff! This time around, we’…

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“Muir’s novel matches what current social scientists describe as ‘role overload’ in the ‘role strain theory’.”

—Re-Evaluating Willa Muir’s ‘Mrs Muttoe & the Top Storey’ in Light of COVID-19 Labour Disparities

Emily Pickard, SLR 14/1 2022, on Project MUSE

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https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/857661

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Peerie Breeks

“Throughout their long, sometimes difficult marriage, however, the Muirs had a gift for falling on their feet”

—Robert Crawford reviews Margery Palmer McCulloch’s EDWIN & WILLA MUIR: A Literary Marriage, & Willa Muir’s novel THE USURPERS, for the London Review of Books

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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n18/robert-crawford/peerie-breeks

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Robert Crawford · Peerie Breeks: Willa and Edwin Muir

‘I am a better translator than he is,’ Willa Muir complained in a 1953 journal. For several generations the couple...

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