“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
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/10/feminize-your-canon-catherine-carswell/
“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
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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 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
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https://blog.nls.uk/the-camomile-by-catherine-carswell-is-back-in-print/
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
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Assoc for Scottish Literature
