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The Twentieth Century Scottish Rennaissance

Introductory Reading

Readers will find good introductory material in the general histories and bibliographies given in the very beginning of the reading lists under Further General Reading (including Aitken, Daiches, Glen, Kinsley, Lindsay, Royle, Scott, Walker, Watson, and Wittig). Particularly useful for the twentieth century is Robert Crawford's Literature in twentieth century Scotland: A Select Bibliography (London: British Council, 1995). It is still the case that the only comprehensive (if subjective) single-volume overview is Alan Bold's Modern Scottish Literature (London: Longman, 1983). For those wishing to sample the poetry and fiction of the modern Scottish Literary Renaissance, there are several anthologies (contemporaneous and recent) available. Particularly focused on the Renaissance, although somewhat limited in its scope, is Maurice Lindsay's 1946 anthology Modern Scottish Poetry (London: Faber, 1946). There are rich modern collections in Douglas Dunn's The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry (London: Faber, 1993), Roderick Watson's huge The Poetry of Scotland (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995) and Robert Crawford and Mick Imlah's The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (London: Allen Lane, 2000). Leslie Wheeler's Ten Northeast Poets (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1985) provides brief (but useful) biographies of the poets he highlights (including Violet Jacob, Helen Cruickshank, and Marion Angus), and includes excerpts from their work. Those who want contemporaneous collections and commentary upon the Scottish Renaissance should consult issues of C.M. Grieve's Northern Numbers and Scottish Chapbook (Foulis, 1920; C.M. Grieve, 1922-1923) or Hugh MacDiarmid's The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry (London: Macmillan, 1940). MacDiarmid's Selected Prose, ed. Alan Riach (Manchester: Carcanet, 1992), includes seminal essays, 'A Theory of Scots Letters' (1923), 'English Ascendency in British Literature' (1931), and 'Scottish Arts and Letters: the Present Position and Post-War Prospects' (1942). See also Albyn (Manchester: Carcanet, 1996), and The Raucle Tongue, vols. 1-3 (Manchester: Carcanet, 1996-1998). For fiction, there are some excellent collections of short stories; some of the best include Scottish Short Stories, ed. J.M. Reid, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963); Modern Scottish Short Stories, eds. Fred Urquhart and Giles Gordon, (London: Faber & Faber, 1978); The New Penguin Book of Scottish Short Stories, ed. Ian Murray, (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983), the bumper collection, The Devil and the Giro: Two Centuries of Scottish Stories, ed. Carl MacDougall, (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1989), and The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories, ed. Douglas Dunn, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). Moira Burgess's collection The Other Voice: Scottish Women's Writing Since 1808 (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1987), introduces women's writing. To capture the vital atmosphere of the Renaissance, in prose and poetry, the reader is recommended to Grieve/MacDiarmid's anthologies (above) and (as C.M. Grieve), Contemporary Scottish Studies (1926; Carcanet, 1995), together with the stimulating colloboration between Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Hugh MacDiarmid in Scottish Scene; or, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Albyn (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1934). MacDiarmid and Gibbon (as Leslie Mitchell) in 1934 planned the provocative Voice of Scotland series (for Routledge); eminent Scottish writers of the day (including Gunn, Linklater, Mackenzie, Power, and the Muirs) wrote on literature, history, culture and religion, as well as food and drink; see the reading lists below, for much fuller material on cultural and social history, such as can be found in the numerous contemporary literary periodicals of the period. An outstanding example is Hugh MacDiarmid: The Raucle Tongue ( hitherto uncolected Prose), vols. 1-3 (Manchester: Carcanet, 1996-1998). Drama is not well-served, but readers are directed towards Cairns Craig and Randall Stevenson's Twentieth Century Scottish Drama: An Anthology (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2001) and Randall Stevenson and Gavin Wallace's Scottish Theatre Since the Seventies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996).

Influential ideas regarding Scottish character which MacDiarmid and others took up came from Gregory Smith's idiosyncratic study Scottish Literature: Character and Influence (London: Macmillan, 1919). For an early critical assessment of the whole movement, Duncan Glen's Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) and the Scottish Renaissance (Edinburgh: Chambers, 1964) is useful, if angled towards poetry; later critics like Francis Russell Hart in The Scottish Novel: A Critical Survey (London: J. Murray, 1978) and Wittig were to restore the place of fiction. Modern criticism takes a balanced view; Edwin Morgan's Crossing the Border: Essays on Scottish Literature (Manchester: Carcanet, 1990) and Essay 1952-1973 (Manchester: Carcanet, 1974), and The History of Scottish Literature Volume IV, Twentieth Century, edited by Cairns Craig, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1987), Marshall Walker's Scottish Literature Since 1707 (London and New York: Longman, 1996), and Angus Calder's Revolving Culture: Notes from the Scottish Republic (London and New York: I.B. Taurus, 1994). For a stimulating discussion of the issues and themes in twentieth century Scottish fiction, see Cairns Craig's The Modern Scottish Novel (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999). Canongate Classics have published over ninety modern fiction titles in their Classics series: these have excellent introductions, and readers are advised to check. Attention is now being paid to cross-national relations - for example in Across the Water: Irishness in Modern Scottish Writing eds. James McGonigal, Daniel O'Rourke and Hamish Whyte (Glendaruel: Argyll, 2000).

Issues of gender have recently been foregounded, particularly in the stimulating essays of Gendering the Nation (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995), edited by Christopher Whyte. Scottish Women's Fiction 1920s to 1960s: Journeys Into Being (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000) edited by Carol Anderson and Aileen Christianson looks at the emergence of women's fiction in the period, and there are many relevant essays in Gifford and McMillan's A History of Scottish Women's Writing (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), and also, (by Carol Anderson, Margaret Elphinstone, and Dorothy McMillan) in Tea and Leg-Irons: New Feminist Readings From Scotland, ed. Caroline Gonda (London: Open Letters, 1992).

For historical and cultural background, see the general histories (Cowan, Findlay, Devine, and Lynch), T.C. Smout's A Century of the Scottish People, 1830-1950 (London: Collins, 1986), Christopher Harvie's No Gods and Precious Few Heroes (London: Edward Arnold, 1981), Scotland: A Concise Cultural History, edited by Paul H Scott (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1993), and George Davie's very influential The Democratic Intellect (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1961) and The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1986). Economic history is well covered in Bruce Lenman's An Economic History of Modern Scotland (London: Batsford, 1977), and R.H. Campbell's Scotland since 1707: The Rise of an Industrial Society (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1986). For a look at Scottish historiography contemporary with the Scottish Renaissance, see G.P. Insh's Scotland and the Modern World (Edinburgh, 1932). For a stimulating discussion of the marginalisation of Scottish culture, see Craig Beveridge and Ronald Turnbull's The Eclipse of Scottish Culture (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1989) and Cairns Craig's Out of History: Narrative Paradigms in Scottish and English Culture (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1996). Language issues are treated in Languages of Scotland (Edinburgh: Chambers, 1979), edited by A. Aitken and T. McArthur.

Background Reading

Aitken, W.R., 'The Scottish Literary Renaissance Movement', SLJ 4(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1977), pp. 58-61.

Blake, George, Barrie and the Kailyard School (London: Barker, 1951).

Bold, Alan, 'After the Renaissance: The Reckoning', Chapman 23-24 (5-6) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1979), pp. 12-21.

Bradbury, Malcolm and Macfarlane, James (eds.), Modernism (London: Penguin, 1976).

Bruce, George and Munro, Ian, Two Essays (Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1971).

Burgess, Moira, Imagine a City: Glasgow in Fiction (Glendaruel: Argyll Publishing, 1998).

Campbell, Ian, Kailyard: A New Assessment (Edinburgh: Ramsay Head, 1981).

Carswell, Catherine, Lying Awake: An Unfinished Autobiography, ed. John Carswell, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1950).

Carswell, John, Lives and letters: A.R. Orage, Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, S.S. Koteliansky, 1906-1957 (London: Faber, 1978).

Cruickshank, Helen, Octobiography (Montrose: The Standard Press, 1976).

D'Arcy, Julian, Scottish Skalds and Sagamen: Old Norse Influence on Modern Scottish Literature (East Linton: Tuckwell, 1996).

Fraser, G.S., The Modern Writer and His World (London: Deutsch, 1964).

Glen, Duncan (ed.), Whither Scotland?: a prejudiced look at the future of a nation (London: Gollancz, 1971). Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance (Edinburgh: Chambers, 1964).

Gunn, Neil M., Whisky and Scotland: A Practical and Spiritual Enquiry (London: Routledge, Voice of Scotland Series, 1935).

Hagemann, Susanne, '"Bidin Naitural": Identity Questions in Scottish Twentieth Century Renaissance Literature', SLJ 21(1) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1994), pp. 44-55. 'Translating Twentieth-Century Scottish Renaissance Literature: The National Element in Cross-National Communication', Nationalism in Literature/Literarischer Nationalismus: Literature, Language, and National Identity, eds. Horst W. Drescher and Hermann Volkel, (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1989), pp. 155-80.

Kincaid, John, 'The Scottish Dilemma', Chapman 23-24 (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1979), pp. 23-31.

Kirk, John M., 'The Heteronomy of Scots with Standard English', The Nuttis Schell: Essays on the Scots Language, ed. Iseabail Macleod, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 166-81.

Lindsay, Maurice, Francis George Scott and the Scottish Renaissance (Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1980).

Linklater, Eric, The Lion and the Unicorn: What England Has Meant to Scotland (London: Routledge, Voice of Scotland Series, 1935).

MacDiarmid, Hugh, At the Sign of the Thistle: A Collection of Essays (London: Stanley Nott, n.d.)

Lucky poet: a self-study in literature and political ideas: being the autobiography of Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) (London: Methuen, 1943; Cape, 1972). The Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid, ed. Alan Bold, (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984). Selected Prose ed. Alan Riach (Manchester: Carcanet, 1992). Albyn: shorter books and monographs (Manchester: Carcanet, 1996). Annals of the five senses and other stories, sketches and plays, eds. Alan Riach and Roderick Watson (Manchester: Carcanet, 1999).

McCulloch, Margery Palmer, 'Women and Love: Some Thoughts on Women's Love Poetry', Chapman 74-75: Women's Forum (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1993), pp. 46-52.

Miller, Karl (ed.), Memoirs of a Modern Scotland (London: Faber, 1970).

Milton, Colin, 'A Sough o' War: The Great War in the Poetry of the North East of Scotland', Northern Visions: The Literary Identity of Northern Scotland in the Twentieth Century, ed.David Hewitt, (East Lothian: Tuckwell Press, 1995), pp. 1-38.

Muir, Edwin, Scottish Journey (London: Heinemann, 1935).

An Autobiography (London: Hogarth, 1954).

Scott and Scotland: The Predicament of the Scottish Writer (London: Routledge, Voice of Scotland Series, 1936).

Muir, Willa, Belonging: A Memoir (London: Hogarth, 1968). Mrs Grundy in Scotland (London: Routledge, Voice of Scotland Series,1936).

Pick, J.B., The Great Shadow House: Essays on the Metaphysical Tradition in Scottish Fiction (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1993).

Power, William, Literature and Oatmeal: What Literature Has Meant to Scotland (London: Routledge, Voice of Scotland Series, 1935).

Royle, Trevor (ed.), In Flanders Fields: Scottish Poetry and Prose of the First World War (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1990).

Skelton, Robin, Poetry of the Thirties (London: Penguin, 1964).

Soutar, William, Diaries of a Dying Man (Edinburgh: Chambers, 1954).

Watson, Roderick, The Literature of Scotland (London: Macmillan, 1984).

Young, Douglas (ed.), Scottish Verse, 1851-1951(London: Thomas Nelson, 1952). The Use of Scots for Prose (Greenock: Scots Philosophical Society, 1949).

Hugh MacDiarmid, Edwin Muir and Poetry in the Inter-War Period

Hugh MacDiarmid / C.M. Grieve

Editions

This list is a selection only; see Aitken, and especially Alan Bold's MacDiarmid:A Critical Biography (London: John Murray, 1988), pp. 466-70, and The Raucle Tongue vol. III, ed. Alan Riach (Manchester: Carcanet, 1996), pp. 642-57 for a fuller bibliography. Under the general editorship of Alan Riach, the Carcanet MacDiarmid 2000 series collects the complete poems and a fully comprehensive selection of MacDiarmid's prose. It is published by Carcanet Press (Manchester) in the following volumes: Selected Poetry, eds. Riach and Grieve (1992); Scottish Eccentrics, ed. Riach (1993); Lucky Poet: The Autobiography, ed. Riach (1994); The Complete Poems 1920-1976, 2 vols., eds. Grieve and Aitken (1978); Contemporary Scottish Studies, ed. Riach (1995), the crucial series of articles which attacked the literary and cultural establishment of the 1920s; Albyn: Shorter Books and Monographs, ed. Riach (1996) including socio-political studies as well as literary and cultural criticism; The Raucle Tongue: Hitherto Uncollected Prose, 3 vols., eds. Calder, Murray and Riach (1996-8) collecting a vast amount of MacDiarmid's political, literary and cultural journalism and critical writing from 1911 to 1978; Annals of the Five Senses: Short Stories, Sketches and Plays, ed. Watson and Riach (1999), which includes MacDiarmid's output of fiction from the 1920s to the 1950s; and New Selected Letters, eds. Grieve, Edwards and Riach (2001), which gives an intimate understanding of the man Christopher Murray Grieve, his life and contacts; a three volume annotated Complete Poems is also underway.

Scottish Chapbook, vol. 2, (Montrose: C. M. Grieve, 1922-1923) [as C.M. Grieve].

Annals of the Five Sense (Montrose: C.M. Grieve, 1923), [as C.M. Grieve].

Sangschaw (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1925).

Penny Wheep (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1926).

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1926), [see also Kenneth Buthlay's fine annotated edition, Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987].

Contemporary Scottish Studies, First Series, (London: Leonard Parsons, 1926).

To Circumjack/Cencrastus, or The Curly Snake (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1930).

First Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems (London: Unicorn Press, 1931).

Scots Unbound, and Other Poems (Stirling: Aeneas Mackay, 1932).

At the Sign of the Thistle: A Collection of Essays (London: Stanley Nott, 1934).

Scottish Scene: Or, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Albyn, [with Lewis Grassic Gibbon], (London: Jarrolds, 1934).

Stony Limits and Other Poems (London: Gollancz, 1934).

Second Hymn to Leninand Other Poems (London: Stanley Nott, 1935).

Scottish Eccentrics (London: Routledge, 1936).

Lucky Poet: A Self-Study in literature and Political Ideas (London: Methuen, 1943).

A Kist of Whistles (Glasgow: Mclellan, 1947).

In Memoriam James Joyce: From A Vision of World Language (Glasgow: Maclellan, 1955).

Three Hymns to Lenin (Edinburgh: Castle Wynd Printers, 1957).

The Battle Continues (Edinburgh: Castle Wynd Printers, 1957).

The Kind of Poetry I Want (Edinburgh: Duval, 1961).

A Lap of Honour (London: McGibbon & Kee, 1967).

The Uncanny Scot: A Selection of Prose, ed. Kenneth Buthlay, (London: McGibbon & Kee, 1967).

The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid: 1920-1976, eds.Michael Grieve and W.R. Aitken, (London: Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1978), [2 vols.].

Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid, ed. Duncan Glen, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969).

The Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid, ed. Alan Bold, (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984).

Selected Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid, eds. Alan Riach and Michael Grieve (London: Penguin, 1994).

Criticism and biography

Akros 12(34-35) (Preston: Akros Publications, 1977), [Special Double Hugh MacDiarmid Issue].

Bell, Robin, 'All That Glitters', Books in Scotland 48 (Edinburgh: Ramsay Head Press, 1994), pp. 21-2.

Bold, Alan, MacDiarmid (London: John Murray, 1988).

Boutelle, Anne Edwards, Thistle and Rose: A Study of Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry (Midlothian: MacDonald Publishers, 1981).

Brown, Dennis, Introduction to The Modernist Self in Twentieth Century English Literature: A Study in Self-Fragmentation (London: Macmillan, 1989), pp. 1-13.

Buthlay, Kenneth, 'The Ablach in the Cold Pavilion', SLJ 16(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1988), pp. 39-57. Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Grieve) (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1964; Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1982). A Note on a Manuscript of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle', SLJ 17(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1990), pp. 36-42.

Chapman 69-70 (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1992), [MacDiarmid Centenary Issue].

Crawford, Robert, 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Waste Land', SLJ 14(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1987), pp. 62-78.

Cribb, T.J., 'The Cheka's Horrors and On a Raised Beach', SSL 20 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1985), pp. 88-100.

Crotty, Patrick, 'From Genesis to Revelation: Patterns and Continuities in Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry in the Early Thirties', SLJ 15(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1988), pp. 5-23.

Davie, George, 'On Hugh MacDiarmid', Cencrastus 25 (Edinburgh: Cencrastus Publications, 1987), pp. 15-20.

Gish, Nancy K. (ed.), Hugh MacDiarmid: Man and Poet (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993).

Glen, Duncan (ed.), Hugh MacDiarmid: a Critical Survey (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1972).

Herbert, W.N., 'MacDiarmid: Mature Art', SLJ 15(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1988), pp. 24-38.

Kerrigan, Catherine, 'MacDiarmid's Early Poetry', The History of Scottish Literature Vol. IV, Twentieth Century, ed. Cairns Craig, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 75-86 'The Ugsome Thistle: Hugh MacDiarmid and the Nationalism of the Modern Literary Revival', Nationalism in Literature: Literarischer Nationalismus: Literature, Language, and National Identity, eds. Horst W. Drescher and Hermann Volkel, (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1989), pp. 181-7. 'Whaur Extremes Meet': The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid, 1920-1934 (Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1983).

(ed.), Hugh MacDiarmid - George Ogilvie Letters (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988).

McCulloch, Margery, 'Modernism and the Scottish Tradition: The Duality of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle', Chapman 25 (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1979), pp, 50-6. 'The Undeservedly Broukit Bairn: Hugh MacDiarmid's "To Circumjack Cencrastus"', SSL 17 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1982), pp. 165-85.

Milton, C., 'Hugh MacDiarmid and North-East Scots', Scottish Language 5 (Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen, 1986), pp. 1-14. 'Modern Poetry in Scots before MacDiarmid', The History of Scottish Literature Vol. IV, Twentieth Century, ed. Cairns Craig, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 11-36.

Montague, John, 'Hugh MacDiarmid: A Parting Gloss', The Celtic Consciousness, ed. Robert O' Driscoll, (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1987), pp. 467-70.

Morgan, Edwin, 'James Joyce and Hugh MacDiarmid', James Joyce and Modern Literature, eds. W.J. McCormack and Alastair Stead, (London: Routledge, 1982), pp. 202-17.

'Jujitsu for the Educated: Reflections on Hugh MacDiarmid's Poem "In Memorium James Joyce"', Twentieth Century 160 (1956), pp. 223-31.

'MacDiarmid Embattled', Essays (Manchester: Carcanet, 1974), pp.194-202.

'Poetry and Knowledge in MacDiarmid's Later Work', Essays (Manchester: Carcanet, 1974), pp. 203-13.

'MacDiarmid at Seventy-Five', Essays (Manchester: Carcanet, 1974), pp. 214-21.

Murphy, Hayden, 'An Irish View of MacDiarmid', Books in Scotland 4 (Edinburgh: Ramsay Head Press, 1979), pp. 9-10.

Oxenhorn, Harvey, Elemental Things: The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1984).

Riach, Alan, Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991).

'The Idea of Order in 'On a Raised Beach'', Terranglian territories: proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation, ed. Suzanne Hagemann (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 613-29.

The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid, Scotnotes (Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1999).

Scott, Paul and Davis, A.C. (eds.), The Age of MacDiarmid (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1980).

Speirs, John, 'The Present and C.M. Grieve', The Scots Literary Tradition: An Essay in Criticism (London: Chatto & Windus, 1940).

Stanforth, Susan M., 'New Light on the Text of MacDiarmid's "The Nature of a Bird's World"', SLJ 22(1) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1995), pp. 92-3.

Watson, Roderick, MacDiarmid (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1985).

Whyte, Christopher, 'The Construction of Meaning in MacDiarmid's Drunk Man', SSL 23 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1988), pp. 199-238.

Whyte, Hamish, 'MacDiarmid and the Beatniks', SLJ 13(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1986), pp. 87-90.

Edwin Muir

Editions

This list is not inclusive; see Aitken, and especially Peter Butter's Edwin Muir: Man and Poet (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1966), pp. 302-8, for a fuller bibliography; see also works listed above in the introduction.

We Moderns: Enigmas and Guesses (London; Allen & Unwin, 1918), [as 'Edward Moore'].

Latitudes: Essays (London: Melrose, 1924).

First Poems (London: Hogarth Press, 1925).

Transitions: Essays on Contemporary Literature (London: Hogarth Press, 1925).

The Structure of the Novel (London: Hogarth Press, 1928).

Variations on a Time Theme (London: Dent, 1934).

Scott and Scotland (London: Routledge, 1936).

Journeys and Places (London: Faber, 1937).

The Story and The Fable (London: Harrap, 1940; revised as An Autobiography (London: Hogarth, 1954; Edinburgh: Canongate, 1993).

The Narrow Place (London: Faber, 1943).

The Voyage and Other Poems (London: Faber, 1946).

The Labyrinth (London: Faber, 1949).

One Foot in Eden (London: Faber, 1956).

The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir, ed. Peter Butter, (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1991).

Criticism and biography

Aitchison, James, The Golden Harvester: The Vision of Edwin Muir (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988).

Butter, Peter, 'The Evolution of Some Late Poems of Edwin Muir', SLJ 24(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1997), pp. 79-84.

Calder, Robert, 'Muir and the Problem of Exclusion', Chapman 9(6) (49) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1987), pp. 15-20.

Daly, MacDonald, 'Scottish Poetry and the Great War', SLJ 21(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1994), pp. 79-96.

Di Piero, Simone, 'On Edwin Muir', Chicago Review 37(1) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), pp. 80-8.

Gilbert, Sandra M., 'Soldier's Heart: Literary Men, Literary Women, and the Great War', Speaking of Gender, ed.Elaine Showalter, (London: Routledge, 1989).

Hearn, Sheila G., 'Edwin Muir: Selected Reading', Books in Scotland 4 (Edinburgh: Ramsay Head Press, 1979), p. 16.

'Edwin Muir: The Man and His Work', Books in Scotland 9 (Edinburgh: Ramsay Head Press, 1981/1982), pp. 6-7.

Huberman, Elizabeth, The Poetry of Edwin Muir: The Field of Good and Ill (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971).

Knight, Robert, Edwin Muir: An Introduction to His Work (London: Longman, 1980).

McCulloch, Margery Palmer, Edwin Muir: Poet, Critic, and Novelist (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993).

Marshall, George, In a Distant Isle: The Orkney Background of Edwin Muir (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988).

Morgan, Edwin, 'Edwin Muir', Essays (Mancherster: Carcanet, 1974), pp. 186-93.

Noble, Andrew (ed.), Edwin Muir: Uncollected Scottish Criticism (London: Vision Press, 1982).

Pittock, Murray G.H., 'Armorial Weed: The Landscape of Edwin Muir', Northern Visions: The Literary Identity of Northern Scotland in the Twentieth Century, ed.David Hewitt, (East Lothian: Tuckwell Press, 1995), pp. 70-81.

"This is the Place": Edwin Muir and Scotland', SLJ 14(1) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1987), pp. 53-72.

Taylor, Nancy Dew, 'Edwin Muir's Penelope Poems', SSL 24 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1989), pp. 212-20.

Wiseman, Christopher, Beyond the Labyrinth: A Study of Edwin Muir's Poetry (Victoria, B.C.: Sono Nis Press, 1978).

Young, James D., 'A Socialist's-Eye View of Edwin Muir', Chapman 9(6) (49) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1987), pp. 21-5.

Opening the Doors: Fiction by Women 1911-1947

Since twentieth-century Scottish fiction is intermittently in and out of print, the bibliographies to this section cite publisher and date of the first British edition of a work. For currently available modern editions, readers should check catalogues of publishers who specialise in Scottish fiction reprints, such as Canongate, B&W Publishing, Mainstream, and House of Lochar.

Background Reading

Anderson, Carol and Christianson, Aileen, Scottish Women's Fiction 1920s to 1960s: Journeys into Being (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000).

Chapman 74-75 (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1993), [Issue dedicated to Scottish women writers].

Christianson, Aileen, 'Imagined Corners to Debatable Land: Passable Boundaries', Scottish

Affairs 17 (Edinburgh: Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland, 1996), pp. 120-34.

Dunn, Douglas, 'The Representation of Women in Scottish Literature', Scotlands 2 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994), pp. 1-23.

Gifford, Douglas, 'Contemporary Fiction I', A History of Scottish Women's Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 577-603.

Gonda, Caroline (ed.), Tea and Leg-Irons: Feminist Readings from Scotland (London: Open Letters, 1992).

Catherine Carswell

Editions

Open the Door! (London: Andrew Melrose, 1920).

The Camomile: an invention (London: Chatto & Windus, 1922).

The Life of Robert Burns (London: Chatto & Windus, 1930).

The Savage Pilgrimage: a narrative of D.H. Lawrence (London: Chatto & Windus, 1932).

A National Gallery: being a collection of English character, [with Daniel George Bunting], (London: Martin Secker, 1933).

The English in Love: a museum of illustrative verse and prose pieces from the 14^th to the 20^th century, [with Daniel George Bunting], (London: Martin Secker, 1934).

The Fays of the Abbey Theatre: an autobiographical record, [with William Fay], (London: Rich & Cowan, 1935).

The Scots Week-end and Caledonian Vade-Mecum, [with Donald Carswell], (London: Routledge, 1936).

The Tranquil Heart: portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1937).

Lying Awake: an unfinished autobiography, and other posthumous papers, ed. John Carswell, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1950).

Criticism and biography

Anderson, Carol, '"Behold I make all things new": Catherine Carswell and the visual arts', Scottish Women's Fiction, 1920s to 1960s: Journeys into Being, eds. Carol Anderson and Aileen Christianson, (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000), pp. 20-31.

(ed.), Opening the Doors: The Achievement of Catherine Carswell (Ramsay Head: Edinburgh, 2001).

McCulloch, Margery Palmer, 'Opening the door: women, Carswell and the Scottish Renaissance', Scottish Studies/Etudes Ecossaises: Proceedings of the Scottishworkshop of the ESSE conference, Bordeaux 1993, eds. Horst W. Drescher and Pierre Morere (Grenoble: Universite Stendhal and Germersheim: Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz, 1994), pp. 93-104.

Norquay, Glenda, 'Catherine Carswell: Open the Door!', A History of Scottish Women's Writing, ed. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 389-99.

Pilditch, Jan, 'Opening the door on Catherine Carswell', Scotlands 2 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994; 1995), pp. 53-65.

See also the Introductionto Open the Door! by John Carswell (Virago, 1986; Canongate, 1996), and to The Camomile by Ianthe Carswell (Virago, 1987).

Willa Muir

Editions

Women: an inquiry (London: Hogarth Press, 1925).

Imagined Corners (London: Martin Secker, 1931).

Mrs Ritchie (London: Martin Secker, 1933).

Mrs Grundy in Scotland (London: Routledge, 1936).

Living with Ballads (London: Hogarth Press, 1965).

Belonging (London: Hogarth Press, 1968).

Imagined Selves: Willa Muir, ed. Kirsty Allen (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1996).

Criticism and biography

Butter, P.H., 'Willa Muir: Writer', Edwin Muir: Centenary Assessments, eds. C.J.M. MacLachlan and D.S. Robb, (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1988), pp. 58-74.

Christiansen, Aileen, 'Dreaming realities: Willa Muir's Imagined Corners', Scottish Women's Fiction, 1920s to 1960s: Journeys into Being, eds. Carol Anderson and Aileen Christiansen, (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000), pp. 84-96.

Dickson, Beth, '"An ordinary little girl": Willa Muir's Mrs Ritchie', ibid., pp. 97-106.

Elphinstone, Margaret, 'Willa Muir: Crossing the Genres', A History of Scottish Women's Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 400-15.

Manning, Susan, '"Belonging with Edwin": Writing the history of Scottish Women Writers', SLJ Supplement 48 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1998), pp. 3-9.

Mudge, Patricia Rowland, 'A Quorum of Willas', Chapman 71 (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1992-3), pp. 1-7.

Murray, Isobel, 'Selves, names and roles: Willa Muir's Imagined Corners offers some inspiration for A Scots Quair', SLJ (21) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1994), pp. 56-64.

Robb, David S., 'The published novels of Willa Muir', Studies in Scottish Fiction: Twentieth Century, eds. Joachim Schwend and Horst W. Drescher, (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1990), pp. 149-61.

Nancy Brysson Morrison

Editions

Breakers (London: John Murray, 1930).

Solitaire (London: John Murray, 1932).

The Gowk Storm (London: Collins, 1933).

The Keeper of Time (Edinburgh: Church of Scotland, 1933).

The Strangers (London: Collins, 1935).

When the Wind Blows (London: Collins, 1937).

These are my Friends (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1946).

The Winnowing Years (London: Hogarth Press, 1949).

The Hidden Fairing (London: Hogarth Press, 1951).

The Following Wind (London: Hogarth Press, 1954).

The Other Traveller (London: Hogarth Press, 1957).

They need no candle: the men who built the Scottish Kirk (London: Epworth Press, 1957).

Mary Queen of Scots (London: Vista Books, 1960).

Thea (London: Robert Hale, 1963).

The Private Life of Henry VII (London: Robert Hale, 1964).

Haworth Harvest: the lives of the Brontes (London: Dent, 1969).

King's Quiver: the last three Tudors (London: Dent, 1972).

True Minds: the marriage of Thomas and Jane Carlyle (London: Dent, 1974).

Also twenty-eight romantic novels under the name of Christine Strathern.

Criticism and biography

Hunter, Stewart, 'The Morrisons', Scots Magazine 59(3) (1953), pp. 187-92.

McCulloch, Margery Palmer, 'Poetic Narrative in Nancy Brysson Morrison's The Gowk Storm', Scottish Women's Fiction, 1920s to 1960s: Journeys into Being, eds. Carol Anderson and Aileen Christiansen, (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000), pp. 109-19.

Nan Shepherd

Editions

The Quarry Wood (London: Constable, 1928).

The Weatherhouse (London: Constable, 1930).

A Pass in the Grampians (London: Constable, 1933).

The Living Mountain: a celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1977).

Criticism and biography

Carter, Gillian, 'Boundaries and transgression in Nan Shepherd's The Quarry Wood', Scottish Women's Fiction, 1920s to 1960s: Journeys into Being, eds. Carol Anderson and Aileen Christianson, (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000), pp. 47-57.

Kesson, Jessie, 'Nan Shepherd: In Recollection', Aberdeen University Review LII, 3(183), (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1990), pp. 187-91.

Lumsden, Alison, '"Journey into Being": Nan Shepherd's The Weatherhouse', Scottish Women's Fiction, 1920s to 1960s: Journeys into Being, eds. Carol Anderson and Aileen Christiansen, (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000), pp. 59-71.

Watson, Roderick, '"to get leave to live": patterns of identity, freedom and defeat in the fiction of Nan Shepherd', Studies in Scottish Fiction: Twentieth Century, eds. Joachim Schwend and Horst W. Drescher, (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1990), pp. 207-18.

'"To know Being": substance and spirit in the work of Nan Shepherd', A History of Scottish Women's Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 416-27.

Violet Jacob

Editions

The Sheep Stealers (London: Heinemann, 1902).

The Interloper (London: Heinemann, 1904).

Irresolute Catherine (London: John Murray, 1908).

The History of Aythan Waring (London: Heinemann, 1908).

Stories Told by the Miller (London: John Murray, 1909).

The Fortune Hunters and other stories (London: John Murray, 1910).

Flemington (London: John Murray, 1911).

Tales of My Own Country (London: John Murray, 1922).

The Lairds of Dun (London: John Murray, 1931).

The Lum Hat and other stories, ed. Ronald Garden, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1982).

Flemington: and Tales from Angus, ed. Carol Anderson, (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1998).

Diaries and Letters from India, ed. Carol Anderson, (Canongate, 1990).

Criticism and biography

Anderson, Carol, 'Debatable land: the prose work of Violet Jacob', Tea and Leg Irons: New Feminist Readings from Scotland, ed. Caroline Gonda, (London: Open Letters, 1992), pp. 31-44.

'Flemington and its portraits', ScotLit 11 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1994), pp. 1-2.

'Tales of her own countries: Violet Jacob', A History of Scottish Women's Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 347-59.

Bing, Sarah, 'Autobiography in the work of Violet Jacob', Chapman 74-5 (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1993), pp. 98-109.

Garden, Ronald, 'Violet Jacob in India', SLJ 13(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1986), pp. 48-64.

Naomi Mitchison

Editions

Publications to 1947. For later titles see the bibliography to section 6.

This listing is necessarily selective. A full bibliography will be found in A History of Scottish Women's Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 702-3.

The Conquered (Cape, 1923).

When the Bough Breaks and other stories (London: Cape, 1924).

Cloud Cuckoo Land (London: Cape, 1925).

Black Sparta: Greek Stories (London: Cape, 1928).

Barbarian Stories (London: Cape, 1929).

The Corn King and the Spring Queen (London: Cape, 1931; Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990).

The Delicate Fire: short stories and poems (London: Cape, 1933).

Vienna Diary (London: Gollancz, 1934).

Beyond This Limit (London: Cape, 1935).

We Have Been Warned (London: Constable, 1935).

The Fourth Pig: stories and verses (London: Constable, 1936).

Blood of the Martyrs (London: Constable, 1939; Edinburgh: Canongate, 1988).

The Bull Calves (London: Cape, 1947; Glasgow: Drew, 1985).

Criticism and biography

Mitchison's autobiographical works are listed in the bibliography to Section 6.

Benton, Jill, Naomi Mitchison: a century of experiment in life and letters (London: Pandora, 1990).

Calder, Jenni, 'Men, women and comrades', Gendering the Nation, ed. Christopher Whyte, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995).

'More than merely ourselves: Naomi Mitchison', A History of Scottish Women's Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 444-55.

The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison (London: Virago, 1997).

Dickson, Beth, 'From personal to global: the fiction of Naomi Mitchison', Chapman 50-51 (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1987), pp. 34-40.

Elphinstone, Margaret, 'The location of magic in Naomi Mitchison's The Corn King and the Spring Queen', Scottish Women's Fiction, 1920s to 1960s: Journeys into Being, eds. Carol Anderson and Aileen Christiansen, (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000), pp. 72-83.

Gifford, Douglas, 'Forgiving the past: Naomi Mitchison's The Bull Calves', Studies in Scottish Fiction: Twentieth Century, eds. Joachim Schwend and Horst Drescher, (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1990), pp. 219-41.

Henegan, Alison, 'Alison Henegan talking with Naomi Mitchison', Writing Lives: conversations between women writers, ed. Mary Chamberlain, (London: Virago, 1988), pp. 170-80.

Murray, Isobel, 'Human relations: an outline of some major themes in Naomi Mitchison's adult fiction', Studies in Scottish Fiction: Twentieth Century, eds. Joachim Schwend and Horst Drescher, (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1990), pp. 243-56.

Smith, Alison, 'The woman from the big house: the autobiographical writings of Naomi Mitchison', Chapman 50-51 (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1987), pp. 10-7.

Lorna Moon

Editions

Doorways in Drumorty (London: Cape, 1926).

Dark Star (London: Gollancz, 1929).

Too Gay! (Lipstick Lady) (Newcastle-under-Lyme: Clifford Lewis, 1945).

Criticism and biography

See the brief Introductions by David Toulmin to Gourdas House (Aberdeen) editions of Dark Star (1980) and Doorways in Drumorty (1981).

The Poetry of William Soutar

Editions

See also Aitken, and Alexander Scott's biography, Still Life: William Soutar (1898-1943) (London and Edinburgh: Chambers, 1958).

Gleanings by an Undergraduate (Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1923).

Conflict (London: Chapman & Hall, 1931).

The Solitary Way (Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1935).

Brief Words: One Hundred Epigrams (Edinburgh: Moray Press, 1935).

Poems in Scots (Edinburgh: Moray, 1935).

A Handful of Earth (Edinburgh: Moray Press, 1936).

Riddles in Scots (Edinburgh: Moray, 1937).

In the Time of Tyrants (Perth: privately printed, 1939).

Seeds in the Wind: Poems in Scots for Children (London: A. Dakers, 1943).

But the Earth Abideth (London: A. Dakers, 1943).

The Solitary Way (London: A. Dakers, 1943).

The Expectant Silence (London: A. Dakers, 1945).

Collected Poems, ed. Hugh MacDiarmid, (London: A. Dakers, 1948), [Incomplete].

Poems of William Soutar: A New Selection, ed.William Aitken, (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1988).

Diaries of a Dying Man, ed. Alexander Scott, (Edinburgh: Chambers, 1988; Edinburgh: Canongate, 1991).

Into a Room: Selected Poems of William Soutar, eds. Carl MacDougall and Douglas Gifford, (Glendaruel: Argyll, 2000).

Criticism and biography

Aitken, W.R., '"I'll Mind Ye in a Sang": William Soutar's Whigmaleeries', Chapman 10(4) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1988), pp. 48-50.

'The Soutar Archives in the National Library of Scotland', Chapman 10(4) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1988), pp. 46-7.

Glen, Duncan, 'William Soutar's Prose Writings', Chapman 10(53) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1989), pp. 2-9.

Goodwin, K.L., 'William Soutar, Adelaide Crapsey, and Imagism', SSL 3 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1965), pp. 96-100.

McGregor, Forbes, 'A Chiel Called Soutar', Chapman 10(4) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1988), pp. 21-6.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Eric Linklater

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Editions

Some of Gibbon's novels were originally published under his real name, James Leslie Mitchell. They are listed accordingly here, but readers should note that the modern editions currently appearing from publishers such as Polygon may be published as by Gibbon, or may bear both names.

As Lewis Grassic Gibbon:

Sunset Song (London: Jarrolds, 1932).

Cloud Howe (London: Jarrolds, 1933).

Grey Granite (London: Jarrolds, 1934).

[These novels published together as A Scots Quair (London: Jarrolds, 1946)].

Scottish Scene [essays; with Hugh MacDiarmid] (London: Jarrolds, 1934).

A Scots Hairst: essays and short stories, ed. Ian S. Munro, (London: Hutchinson, 1967).

The Speak of the Mearns [unfinished novel], ed. Ian Campbell, (Edinburgh: Ramsay Head Press, 1982).

Smeddum: A Lewis Grassic Gibbon Anthology, ed. Valentina Bold (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2001).

As James Leslie Mitchell:

Stained Radiance (London: Jarrolds, 1930).

The Thirteenth Disciple (London: Jarrolds, 1931).

The Calends of Cairo (London: Jarrolds, 1931).

Three Go Back (London: Jarrolds, 1932).

Spartacus (London: Jarrolds, 1933).

Nine against the Unknown (London: Jarrolds, 1934).

Gay Hunter (London: Heinemann, 1934).

Criticism and biography

Campbell, Ian, 'Chris Caledonia: the search for an identity', SLJ 1(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1974), pp. 45-57.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1985).

Lewis Grassic Gibbon and the Mearns', A Sense of Place: Studies in Scottish Local History, ed. Graeme Cruikshank, (Edinburgh: Scotland's Cultural Heritage, 1988), pp.15-26.

Gifford, Douglas, Neil M. Gunn and Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1983).

Malcolm, William, A Blasphemer and Reformer: a study of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1984).

Munro, Ian S., Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1966).

Murray, Isobel, 'Action and narrative stance in A Scots Quair', Literature of the North, eds. David Hewitt and Michael Spiller, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1983), pp. 109-20.

Murray, Isobel and Tait, Bob, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Scots Quair', Ten Modern Scottish Novels (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1984), pp. 10-31.

Tange, Hanne, "Scotland Improper"? How the nationalist landscape failed Grassic Gibbon', Odd Alliances: Scottish Studies in European Contexts, eds. Neil McMillan and Kirsten Stirling (Glasgow: Cruithne Press, 1999).

Young, Douglas F., Beyond the Sunset: a study of James Leslie Mitchell (Aberdeen: Impulse Publications, 1973).

Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'Sunset Song' (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1986).

Eric Linklater

Editions

Publications to 1945. For later titles see the bibliography to section 6.

White Maa's Saga (London: Cape, 1929).

Poet's Pub (London: Cape, 1929).

Juan in America (London: Cape, 1931).

The Men of Ness (London: Cape, 1932).

Magnus Merriman (London: Cape, 1934).

Ripeness is All (London: Cape, 1935).

God Likes them Plain: short stories (London: Cape, 1935).

Juan in China (London: Cape, 1937).

The Sailor's Holiday (London: Cape, 1937).

The Impregnable Women (London: Cape, 1938).

Judas: a novel (London: Cape, 1939).

The Man on my Back: an autobiography (London: Macmillan, 1941).

The Wind on the Moon: a story for children(London: Macmillan, 1944).

Criticism and biography

Linklater's autobiographies are listed above and in the bibliography to Section 6.

Parnell, Michael, Eric Linklater: a critical biography (London: Murray, 1984).

Ruben Valdes Miyares, '"The Returning Sun'': Eric Linklater's metafiction of the Scottish iterary renaissance', Odd Alliances: Scottish Studies in European Contexts, eds. Neil cMillan and Kirsten Stirling (Glasgow: Cruithne Press, 1999).

Rutherford, Andrew, 'Eric Linklater as comic novelist', Literature of the North, eds. David Hewitt and Michael Spiller, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1983), pp. 149-61.

James Bridie and The Scottish Theatre

There is a lack of published drama for this period, which explains why dramatists with many performed plays to their credit seem under-represented here. Some additional listings are placed here, rather than in, 'Widening the Range'. A useful starting point is Twentieth Century Scottish Drama: An Anthology, eds. Cairns Craig and Randall Stevenson (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2001), which contains the following plays; Barrie's Mary Rose, Corrie's In Time o' Strife, McLellan's The Saxt, Bridie's Mr Bolfry, Lamont Stewart's Men Should Weep, McMillan's The Bevellers, Campbell's The Jesuit, Lochhead's Mary Queen of Scots Got her Head Chopped Off, Byrne's Your Cheating Heart, Glover's Bondagers and Hannan's Shining Souls.

Background Reading

Bannister, Winifred, James Bridie and His Theatre: A Study of James Bridie's Personality, His Stage Plays and His Work for the Foundation of a Scottish National Theatre (London: Rockliff, 1955).

Barlow, Priscilla, Wise Enough to Play the Fool: a biography of Duncan Macrae (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1996).

Bennet, Susan, 'Debts and Directions: The Place of Robert McLellan's The Changeling', SLJ 19(1) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1992), pp. 28-34.

Bold, Alan, Modern Scottish Literature (London: Longman, 1983).

Booth, Michael R., and Kaplan, Joel H. (eds.), Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Campbell, Donald, Playing for Scotland: A history of the Scottish stage, 1715-1965 (Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1996).

'A Sense of Community: Robert McLellan: An Appreciation', Chapman 8-9 (43-44) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 35-41.

A Brighter Sunshine: A Hundred Years of the Edinburgh Royal Lyceum (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1983).

Demastes, William and Kelly, Katherine E. (eds.), British Playwrights, 1860-1956: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Westport, C.T.: Greenwood, 1996).

Findlay, Bill (ed.), A History of Scottish Theatre (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998).

Holledge, Julie, Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre (London: Virago, 1981).

Hutchison, David, The Modern Scottish Theatre (Glasgow: Molendinar Press, 1977).

'Scottish drama, 1900-1950', The History of Scottish Literature vol. IV, Twentieth Century, ed. Cairns Craig, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 163-77.

'1900 to 1950', A History of Scottish Theatre, ed. Bill Findlay, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998), pp. 207-52.

Jack, R.D.S., 'Barrie as Journey-Dramatist: A Study of 'Walker London'', SSL 22 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1987), pp. 60-77.

Low, John Thomas, 'Mid Twentieth Century Drama in Lowland Scots', Scotland and the Lowland Tongue: Studies in the Language and Literature of Lowland Scotland (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1983), pp. 170-94.

Michie, James, 'A Question of Success', English 17 (London: Oxford University Press, 1968), pp. 48-52.

Osborn, Margaret, 'The Concept of Imagination in Edwardian Drama', Dissertation Abstracts 28 (1967), p. 1443A.

Smith, Donald, '1950-1995', A History of Scottish Theatre, ed. Bill Findlay, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998), pp. 253-308.

Stevenson, Randall, 'Scottish theatre, 1950-1980', The History of Scottish Literature vol. IV, Twentieth Century, ed. Cairns Craig, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 349-67.

Trewin, J.C., The Edwardian Theatre (Oxford: Blackwell, 1976).

Wilson, A.E., Edwardian Theatre (London: Barker, 1951).

Wright, Allen, 'Kelvinside, Kirriemuir, and the Kailyard', Chapman 11(2-3) (55-56) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1989), pp. 134-7.

Some Individual Playwrights

Since the publication of dramatic works is sporadic, the following listings include a selection of the published work of dramatists additional to those mentioned in the text.

William Archer

Editions

The Green Goddess: A Play in Four Acts (New York: Knopf, 1921).

Three Plays(London: Constable, 1927).

Robert Bain

Editions

James the First of Scotland (Glasgow: Maclehose, Jackson, 1921).

Finela: A Tragedy of the Mearns(Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1940).

George Blake

Editions

The Mother: A Play in Two Scenes (Glasgow: Walter Wilson, 1921).

Clyde Built: A Play in Three Acts (Glasgow: Wilson, 1922).

The Weaker Vessel: A Play in One Act(Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1923).

John H. Bone

Editions

The Crystal Set (London and Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1924).

The Loudspeaker: A Comedy in One Act (London and Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1927).

The Aerial: A Comedy in One Act (Glasgow: Wilson, 1932).

The Wholesale: A Scottish Comedy (Glasgow: Bone & Hulley, 1934).

Gordon Bottomley

Edition

Gruath (1923), in Britain's Daughter: Two Plays (London: Constable, 1925).

John Brandane

Editions

Glenforsa: A Play in One Act, with A.W. Yuill (Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1921).

The Change-House: A Play in One Act (Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1921).

The Glen is Mine and The Lifting: Two Plays of the Hebrides (London: Constable, 1925).

The Treasure Ship, Rory Aforesaid, The Happy War: Three Plays (London: Constable, 1928).

The Inn of Adventure, Heather Gentry: Two Comedies (London: Constable, 1933).

Man of Uz (London: Muller, 1938).

James Bridie

Editions

The list below is a selection from the work of this prolific writer; see Crawford's Literature in twentieth century Scotland for fuller lists, and also fiction lists.

The Sunlight Sonata (London: Constable, 1928)

The Anatomist and Other Plays (London: Constable, 1930).

Jonah and the Whale (London: Constable, 1932).

The Pardoner's Tale, in The Switchback, The Pardoner's Tale, The Sunlight Sonata (London: Constable, 1932).

A Sleeping Clergyman (London: Constable, 1933).

Tobias and the Angel (London: Constable, 1934).

Colonel Wotherspoon and Other Plays (London: Constable, 1934).

Marriage is No Joke (London: Constable, 1934).

The Black Eye (London: Constable, 1935).

Storm in a Tea-Cup (London: Constable, 1936).

The King of Nowhere and Other Plays (London: Constable, 1938).

Susannah and the Elders and Other Plays (London: Constable, 1940).

Mr. Bolfry (London: Constable, 1943).

Plays for Plain People (London: Constable, 1944).

Daphne Laureola (London: Constable, 1949).

John Knox and Other Plays (London: Constable, 1949).

Mr. Gillie (London: Constable, 1950).

Criticism and biography

Cameron, Alasdair, 'Bridie: The Scottish Playwright', Chapman 11(2-3) (55-56) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1989), pp. 124-32.

Greene, Anne, D., 'Bridie's Concept of the Master Experimenter', SSL 2 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1964), pp. 96-110.

Low, John Thomas, Doctors, Devils, Saints and Sinners: A Critical Study of the Major Playsof James Bridie (Edinburgh: Ramsay Head Press, 1991).

Luyben, Helen L., 'Bridie's Last Play', Modern Drama 5 (1963), pp. 400-14.

'The Dramatic Method of James Bridie', Education Theatre Journal 15 (1963), pp. 332-42.

'James Bridie and the Prodigal Son Story', Modern Drama 7 (1964), pp. 35-45.

James Bridie: Clown and Philosopher (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965).

Mavor, Ronald, 'Bridie Revisited', Chapman 11(2-3) (55-56) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1989), pp. 146-51.

Dr. Mavor and Mr. Bridie (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1988).

Morgan, Edwin, 'James Bridie's The Anatomist and John Byrne's The Slab Boys', Crossing the Border: Essays on Scottish Literature (Manchester: Carcanet, 1990).

Paterson, Tony, 'James Bridie: Playwright as Impressario', Chapman 11(2-3) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1989), pp. 139-45.

Donald Colquhoun

Edition

Jean (Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1914).

Stewart Conn

Editions

The Burning (London: Calder & Boyars, 1973).

The Aquarium; The Man in the Green Muffler; I Didn't Always Live Here (London: John Calder, 1976).

Thistlewood(Todmorden: Woodhouse, 1979).

Joe Corrie

Editions

see Crawford's Literature in twentieth century Scotland for fuller lists.

In Time o' Strife (1927).

The Shillin'-a-Week Man: A Domestic Comedy (Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1927).

The Home-Coming: A Play in One Act (London: French, 1931).

The Darkness (Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1932).

Robert Burns: a Play (Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1943).

Plays, Poems and Theatre Writings, ed. Linda MacKenny (Edinburgh: 7:84 Publications, 1985).

Archibald Joseph Cronin

Edition

Jupiter Laughs (Boston: Little, Brown, 1940).

'Gordon Daviot' (Elizabeth Mackintosh)

Editions

Richard of Bordeaux (London: Gollancz, 1933).

Queen of Scots (London: Gollancz, 1934).

The Laughing Woman (London: Gollancz, 1934).

The Stars Bow Down (London: Duckworth, 1939).

Leith Sands, and Other Short Plays (London: Duckworth, 1946).

Plays, 3 vols. (London: Peter Davies, 1953-4).

John Alexander Ferguson

Editions

Campbell of Kilmhor: a Play in One Act (Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1915).

The Scarecrow: A Hallowe'en Fantasy in One Act (London and Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1922).

Morland Graham

Editions

C'est la Guerre: A Play in One Act (Glasgow: Scots Magazine, 1927).

A Maitter o' Money: A Farcical Comedy in One Act (Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1928).

The Hoose wi' the Golden Windies: A Play in One Act (Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1931).

Neil Miller Gunn

Editions

Back Home (Glasgow: Wilson, 1932).

Choosing a Play (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1938).

Old Music (London: Nelson, 1939).

Net Results (Lodnon: Nelson, 1939).

Ian Hay

Editions

A Safety Match (London: French, 1927).

The Happy Ending: A Play in Three Acts (London: French, 1927).

A Blank Cartridge: A Farce (London: French, 1928).

Housemaster: A Comedy in Three Acts (London: French, 1938).

The Fourpenny Box: A Play in One Act (London: French, 1947).

Eric Linklater

Editions

The Devil's in the News (London: Cape, 1934).

Crisis in Heaven: An Elysian Comedy (London: Macmillan, 1944).

Two Comedies (London: Macmillan, 1950).

The Mortimer Touch (London: French, 1952).

Breakspear in Gascony (London: Macmillan, 1958).

Robert McLeish

Edition

The Gorbals Story, ed. Linda MacKenny (Edinburgh: 7:84 Publications, 1985).

Robert McLellan

Editions

Jeddart Justice: A Border Comedy (Glasgow: Bone & Hulley, 1934).

The Changeling: A Border Comedy in One Act (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1938).

Toom Byres: A Comedy of the Scottish Borders in Three Acts (Glasgow: Maclellan, 1947).

The Cailleach: A Play in One Act (Glasgow: Donaldson, 1948).

Torwatletie, or the Apothecary: A Comedy of the Scottish Borders in Three Acts (Glasgow: Maclellan, 1950).

The Hypocrite (London: Calder & Boyars, 1970).

Jamie the Saxt: A Historical Comedy, eds. Ian Campbell and Ronald D.S. Jack (London: Calder & Boyars, 1970).

Collected Plays (London: Calder, 1981).

Criticism and biography

Hutcheson, david, Findlay, William, history of the scottish theatre

Chapman article

George Reston Malloch

Editions

Arabella: A Play in Three Acts (London: Stephen Swift, 1912).

The House of the Queen (Montrose: Scottish Poetry Bookship, 1923).

Thomas the Rhymer (Monstrose: Scottish Poetry Bookship, 1924).

Soutarness Water: A Play in Three Acts (Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1927).

Prologue to Flodden (Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1936).

Ronald Mavor

Edition

Roger-Not So Jolly: A Drama in One Act, with James Bridie (London: French, 1937).

Robins Millar

Editions

The Shawlie: A Play in Three Acts (London & Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1924).

Thunder in the Air: A Play in Three Acts (London: French, 1928).

Colussus: A Play in One Act (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1938).

Naomi Mitchison

Editions

The Price of Freedom, with Lewis E. Gielgud (London: Cape, 1931).

As It Was in the Beginning, with Lewis E. Gielgud (London: Cape, 1939).

Spindrift, with Denis Macintosh (London: French, 1951).
 

Graham Moffat

Edition

Bunty Pulls the Strings (1911).

Left theatres and Glasgow Unity Theatre

Editions

Barke, James, Major Operation: the play of the novel (Glasgow: Maclellan, 1943).

Carroll, Paul Vincent, Three Plays: The White Steed; Things that are Caesar's; The Strings My Lord are False (London: Macmillan, 1944).

Corrie, Joe, Plays, Poems and Theatre Writings, ed. Linda Mackenney, (Edinburgh: 7:84, 1985).

McLeish, Robert, The Gorbals Story, ed. Linda Mackenney, (Edinburgh: 7:84, 1985).

McLellan, Robert, Jamie the Saxt, eds. Ian Campbell and R.D.S. Jack, (London: Calder & Boyers, 1970).

Stewart, Ena Lamont, Men Should Weep, ed. Linda Mackenney, (Edinburgh: 7:84, 1986).

Criticism

Allen, Douglas, 'Culture and the Scottish labour movement', Journal of Scottish Labour History Society 14 (Edinburgh: Scottish Labour Historical Society, 1980), pp. 30-9.

'Glasgow Workers' Theatre Group and the methodology of theatre studies', Theatre Quarterly 7(27) (1980), pp. 45-54.

Caesar, Adrian, Dividing Lines: poetry, class and ideology (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991).

Chambers, Colin, Unity (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1989).

Clark, Jon, et. al. (eds.), Culture and Crisis in Britain in the 1930s (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1979).

Findlay, Bill, '7:84's Scottish popular plays series', Radical Scotland (Edinburgh: Radical Scotland Publications, 1985), pp. 30-1.

'Fun in the Gorbals', Radical Scotland (Edinburgh: Radical Scotland Publications, 1986), p. 31.

Hill, John, 'Towards a Scottish People's Theatre: the rise and fall of Glasgow Unity', Theatre Quarterly 7(27) (1977), pp. 61-70.

'Glasgow Unity Theatre: the search for a "Scottish People's Theatre"', New Edinburgh Review 40 (Edinburgh, 1978), pp. 27-31.

"Scotland doesnae mean much tae Glesca": some notes on The Gorbals Story', Scotch Reels, ed. Colin McArthur, (London: BFI, 1982), pp. 100-11.

Hutchison, David, 'Scottish drama, 1900-1950', The History of Scottish Literature vol. IV, Twentieth Century, ed. Cairns Craig, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1992), pp. 163-77.

Mackenney, Linda, The Activities of Popular Dramatists and Drama Groups in Scotland, 1900-1952 (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000).

Scullion, Adrienne, 'Feminine pleasures and masculine indignities: gender and community in Scottish drama', Gendering the Nation, ed. Christopher Whyte, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995), pp. 169-204.

'Men Should Weep - a production history'; 'Men Should Weep - the social context' and 'Men Should Weep - gender', A Study Guide to Men Should Weep (Glasgow: TAG, 1996).

The Poetry of Sorley Maclean

Editions

Dàin do Eimhir agus Dàin Eile (Glasgow: Maclellan, 1943).

Four Points of a Saltire: The Poetry of Sorley MacLean, George Campbell Hay, William Neill, Stuart MacGregor (Edinburgh: Reprographia, 1970).

Reothairt is Contraigh: Taghadh de Dhàin 1932-72 / Spring Tide and Neap Tide: Selected Poems 1932-72 (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1977).

O Choille gu Bearradh / From Wood to Ridge: Collected Poems in Gaelic and English (Manchester: Carcanet, 1989).

Ris a' Bhruthaich: The Criticism and Prose Writings of Somhairle MacGill-eain, ed. William Gillies,(Stornoway: Acair, 1985).

Criticism and biography

Gillies, William (ed.), Ris a' Bhruthaich: The Criticism and Prose Writings of Somhairle MacGill-eain (Stornoway: Acair, 1985).

Hendry, Joy, 'An Interview with Sorley MacLean', Chapman 66 (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1991), pp. 1-8.

MacLean, Sorley, 'Par Lui Meme', PN Review 16(3) (17) (1989), pp. 15-8.

McCaughey, Terence, 'Somhairle MacGill-eain', The History of Scottish Literature Vol. IV, Twentieth Century, ed. Cairns Craig, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 147-61.

McClure, J. Derrick (ed.), 'Douglas Young and Sorley MacLean', Gaelic and Scots in Harmony (Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 1988), pp. 136-48.

Montague, John, 'A Northern Vision', The Pleasures of Gaelic Poetry, ed.Sean MacReamoinn, (London: Allen Lane (Penguin), 1982), pp. 163-74.

Nicholson, Angus, 'An Interview with Sorley MacLean', SSL 14 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1980), pp. 23-36.

Nicholson, Colin, 'Poetry of Displacement: Sorley MacLean and His Writing', SSL 22 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1987), pp. 1-9.

Ross, R.J. and Hendry, J. (eds.), Sorley MacLean: Critical Essays (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1986).

Stoddart, John, 'Sorley MacLean a'r 'Farddonaieth Aeleg Newydd', Y Traethodydd 133 (1978), pp. 191-203.

Van Eerde, John and Williamson, Robert, 'Sorley MacLean: A Bard and Scottish Gaelic', World Literature Today 52 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978), pp. 229-32.

Anthologies

Black, Ronald I.M. (ed.), An tuil: Anthology of 20th Century Scottish Gaelic Verse (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1999).

Davitt, Michael and MacDhòmhnaill, Iain (eds.), Sruth na Maoile: Modern Gaelic Poetry from Scotland and Ireland (Edinburgh: Canongate; Dublin: Coiscéim, 1993).

MacAulay, Donald (ed.), Nua-bhàrdachd Ghàidhlig / Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems: A Bilingual Anthology (Edinburgh: Southside, 1976).

Macleod, Mary, The Gaelic Songs of Mary MacLeod, ed. J. Carmichael Watson (London: Blackie, 1934; Edinburgh: Scottish Gaelic Texts Society, 1965

MacThòmais, Ruaraidh (ed.), Bàrdachd na Roinn-Eòrpa an Gàidhlig (Glasgow: Gairm, 1990).

Whyte, Christopher (ed.), An Aghaidh na Sìorraidheachd: Ochdnar Bhàrd Gàidhlig / In the Face of Eternity: Eight Gaelic Poets (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1991).

Criticism

Bateman, Meg, 'Women's Writing in Scottish Gaelic Since 1750', A History of Scottish Women's Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 659-76.

Black, Ronald, 'Thunder, Renaissance and Flowers: Gaelic Poetry in the Twentieth Century', The History of Scottish Literature Vol. IV, Twentieth Century, ed. Cairns Craig,(Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 195-215.

Douglas, S., 'Links with Gaelic Tradition Found in the Story Traditions of Perthshire Travelling People', Scottish Language 5 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish LiteraryStudies, 1986), pp. 15-22.

Gow, Carol, 'An Interview with Iain Crichton Smith', SLJ 17(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1990), pp. 43-57.

MacDonald, Kenneth D., 'Glasgow and Gaelic Writing', Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness 57 (1993), pp. 395-428.

MacDonald, Roderick, 'Some Present-Day Trends in Gaelic Writing in Scotland', Scando-Slavica 29 (1996), pp. 85-94.

Mackinnon, K., 'The Scottish Gaelic Speech-Community: Some Social Perspectives', Scottish Language 5 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1986), pp. 65-84.

Smith, Iain Crichton, 'The Internationalism of Twentieth-Century Gaelic Poetry', SLJ 18(1) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1991), pp. 82-6.

'Recent Gaelic Poetry', Scottish Language 8 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1989), pp. 21-33.

Thomson, Derick S., The Companion to Gaelic Scotland (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983).

Gaelic and Scots in Harmony (Glasgow: Glasgow University Press, n.d.).

(ed.), Gaelic in Scotland=Gaidhlig ann an Albainn: A Blueprint for Official and Private Initiatives (Glasgow: Gairm, 1976).

'Gaelic Literary Interactions with Scots and English Work: A Survey', Scottish Language 5 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1986), pp. 1-14.

'The Gaelic Poetry', Iain Crichton Smith: Critical Essays, ed. Colin Nicholson, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992), pp. 1-10.

An Introduction to Gaelic Poetry (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990).

The New Verse in Scottish Gaelic: A Structural Analysis (Dublin: University College, Dublin, 1974).

'Poetry in Scottish Gaelic, 1945-1992', Poetry in the British Isles: Non-Metropolitan Perspectives, eds. Hans-Werner Ludwig and Lothar Fietz, (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1995), pp. 157-72.

'Scottish Gaelic Poetry: A Many-Faceted Tradition', SLJ 18(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1991), pp. 5-26.

Whyte, Christopher, 'The Cohesion of 'Dàin do Eimhir', SLJ 17(1) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1990), pp. 46-70.

Withers, Charles W.J., 'Gaelic in Glasgow, c.1723-1981', Scottish Language 8 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1989), pp.1-20.

Gaelic in Scotland, 1698-1981: The Geographical History of a Language (Edinburgh: J. Donald, 1984).

The Epic Fiction of Neil Gunn

Editions

Publications to 1945. For later titles see the bibliography to section 6.

The Grey Coast (London: Cape, 1926).

Hidden Doors (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1929).

Morning Tide (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1930).

The Lost Glen (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1932).

Sun Circle (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1933).

Butcher's Broom (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1934).

Highland River (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1937).

Wild Geese Overhead (London: Faber, 1939).

Second Sight (London: Faber, 1940).

The Silver Darlings (London: Faber, 1941).

Young Art and Old Hector (London: Faber, 1942).

The Serpent (London: Faber, 1943).

The Green Isle of the Great Deep (London: Faber, 1944).

The Key of the Chest (London: Faber, 1945).

Criticism and biography

Gunn's autobiography and Selected Letters are listed in the bibliography to Section 6.

Burns, J., A Celebration of Light: Zen in the novels of Neil Gunn (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1988).

Gifford, Douglas, Neil M. Gunn and Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1983).

Gunn, Diarmid and Murray, Isobel (eds.), Neil Gunn's country: essays in celebration of Neil Gunn (Edinburgh: Chambers, 1991).

Hart, F.R. and Pick, J.B., Neil M. Gunn: a Highland life (London: John Murray, 1981).

Herbert, W.N. and Price, R. (eds.), The Anarchy of Light: Neil Gunn, a celebration (Dundee: Gairfish, 1991).

McCulloch, Margery, The novels of Neil M. Gunn: a critical study (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987).

Morrison, David (ed.), Essays on Neil M. Gunn (Thurso: Caithness Books, 1971).

Murray, Isobel and Tait, Bob, 'Neil Gunn: The Silver Darlings', Ten Modern Scottish Novels (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1984).

Price, Richard, The Fabulous Matter of Fact: the poetics of Neil M. Gunn (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991).

Scott, Alexander and Gifford, Douglas (eds.), Neil M. Gunn: the man and the writer (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1973).

Stokoe, C.J.L., A bibliography of the works of Neil M. Gunn (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987).

Widening the Range: Fiction

The following lists give only major works by the authors highlighted in the text.

Authors listed elsewhere in the bibliography are indicated.

Dot Allan

Editions

The Syrens (London: Heinemann, 1921).

Makeshift (Andrew Melrose, 1928).

The Deans (London: Jarrolds, 1929).

Deepening River (London: Jarrolds, 1932).

Hunger March (London: Hutchinson, 1934).

Mother of Millions (London: Hale, 1953).

James Barke

Editions

The World his Pillow (London: Collins, 1933).

The Wild Macraes (London: Collins, 1934).

The End of the High Bridge (London: Collins, 1935).

Major Operation (London: Collins, 1936).

The Land of the Leal (London: Collins, 1939).

The Green Hills Far Away [autobiography] (London: Collins, 1940).

Immortal Memory, [five novels on the life of Burns], (London: Collins, 1946-54).

Bonnie Jean (London: Collins, 1959).

J.M. Barrie

(See reading list for, 'Widening the Range', Section 4).

George Blake

Editions

Mince Collop Close (Grant Richards, 1923).

The Wild Men (Grant Richards, 1925).

The Path of Glory (London: Constable, 1929).

The Shipbuilders (London: Faber & Faber, 1935).

Down to the Sea [autobiography] (1937).

The Valiant Heart (London: Collins, 1940).

The Constant Star (London: Collins, 1945).

The Westering Sun (London: Collins, 1946).

And many other novels, most set in Glasgow or Greenock.

John Buchan

Editions

Publications from 1900. For earlier titles, and for criticism, see the bibliography to Section 4.

The Watcher by the Threshold, and other tales (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1902).

A Lodge in the Wilderness (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1906).

Prester John (Nelson, 1910).

The Thirty-Nine Steps (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1915).

The Power-House (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1916).

Greenmantle (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1916).

Mr Standfast (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1919).

Huntingtower (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1922).

Midwinter (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923).

The Three Hostages (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1924).

John Macnab (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1925).

The Dancing Floor (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1926).

Witch Wood (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1927).

The Runagates Club (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1928).

The Courts of the Morning (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1929).

Castle Gay (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930).

The Blanket of the Dark (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1931).

The Gap in the Curtain (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1932).

The Free Fishers (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934).

The House of the Four Winds (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935).

The Island of Sheep (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1936).

Memory Hold the Door [autobiography] (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1940).

Sick Heart River (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941).

John Cockburn

Edition

Tenement: a novel of Glasgow life (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1925).

Robert Craig

Editions

Lucy Flockhart (London: John Murray, 1931).

O People! (London: John Murray, 1932).

Campbell of Duisk(London: John Murray, 1933).

A.J. Cronin

Editions

Hatter's Castle (London: Gollancz, 1931).

Three Loves (London: Gollancz, 1932).

The Stars Look Down (London: Gollancz, 1935).

The Citadel (London: Gollancz, 1937).

The Keys of the Kingdom (1942).

The Green Years (1945).

Shannon's Way (London: Gollancz, 1948).

Adventures in Two Worlds [autobiography] (London: Gollancz, 1952).

A Song of Sixpence (London: Gollancz, 1964).

Criticism and biography

Salwar, D., A.J.Cronin (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985).

Catherine Gavin

Editions

Clyde Valley (Arthur Barker, 1938).

The Hostile Shore (London: Methuen, 1940).

The Black Milestone (London: Methuen, 1941).

The Mountain of Light (London: Methuen, 1944).

Also historical novels, a World War I quartet and a French Resistance trilogy.

Criticism and biography

Alexander, Flora, 'The novels of Catherine Gavin', Northern Visions, ed. David Hewitt, (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1995), pp. 166-79.

R.B. Cunninghame Graham

Editions

Thirteen Stories (London: Heinemann, 1900).

Scottish Stories (London: Duckworth, 1914).

Selected Writings of Cunninghame Graham, ed. C. Watts, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

The Scottish Sketches of Cunninghame Graham, ed. J. Walker, (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1982).

Criticism and biography

MacDiarmid, Hugh, Cunninghame Graham: a centenary study (Glasgow: Caledonian Press, 1952).

Maitland, A., Robert and Gabriela Cunningham Graham (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1983).

Tschiffely, A.F., Don Roberto (London and Toronto: Heinemann, 1937).

Watts, C. and Davies, L., Cunninghame Graham: a critical biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979).

Tom Hanlin

Editions

Once in Every Lifetime (Nicholson & Watson, 1945).

Yesterday Will Return (Nicholson & Watson, 1946).

Miracle at Cardenrigg (London: Gollancz, 1949).

Criticism and biography

Macpherson, Hugh, 'Tom Hanlin', Scottish Book Collector (Edinburgh, 1989), pp. 19-20.

Malzahn, Manfred, 'Pithead metaphysics: Tom Hanlin's Once in Every Lifetime', ScotLit (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1992), pp. 3-4.

John MacDougall Hay

Editions

Gillespie (London: Constable, 1914).

Barnacles (London: Constable, 1916).

Criticism and biography

Spring, Ian, 'Determinism in John MacDougall Hay's Gillespie' , SLJ 6 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1979), pp. 55-68.

Tait, Bob, and Murray, Isobel, 'Introduction' to Gillespie (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1979).

David Lindsay

Editions

A Voyage to Arcturus (London: Methuen, 1920).

The Haunted Woman (London: Methuen, 1922).

Sphinx (John Long, 1923).

Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly (Andrew Melrose, 1926).

Devil's Tor (London: Putnam, 1932).

The Violet Apple and The Witch (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1976).

Criticism and biography

Sellin, Bernard, The Life and Works of David Lindsay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

Wilson, Colin, et. al., The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (London: John Baker, 1970).

'Fionn MacColla' (Tom Macdonald)

Editions

Editions

Publications to 1945. For later titles see bibliography to Section 6.

The Albannach (London: John Heritage, 1932).

And the Cock Crew (Glasgow: William Maclellan, 1945).

Too Long in this Condition (Autobiography) (Thurso: Caithness Books, 1975).

The Ministers (London: Souvenir Press, 1979).

Move Up, John (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1994).

At the Sign of the Clenched Fist (Edinburgh, 1967).

Criticism and biography

Morrison, David (ed.), Essays on Fionn MacColla (Thurso: Caithness Books, 1973).

Murray, Isobel and Tait, Bob, 'Fionn MacColla: And the Cock Crew', Ten Modern Scottish Novels (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1984), pp. 55-77.

Patrick MacGill

Editions

Children of the Dead End (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1914).

The Rat-Pit (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1915).

Compton Mackenzie

Editions

Sinister Street (London: Secker, 1913).

Water on the Brain (London: Cassell, 1933).

The Four Winds of Love, [6 vols.], (London: Rich & Cowan, Chatto & Windus, 1937-45).

The Monarch of the Glen (London: Chatto & Windus, 1941).

Keep the Home Guard Turning (London: Chatto & Windus, 1943).

Whisky Galore (London: Chatto & Windus, 1947).

Hunting the Fairies (London: Chatto & Windus, 1949).

Thin Ice (London: Chatto & Windus, 1956).

My Life and Times, [autobiography; 10 vols.], (London: Chatto & Windus, 1963-71).

Criticism and biography

Linklater, Andro, Compton Mackenzie: a life (London: Chatto & Windus, 1987).

Robertson, L., Compton Mackenzie: an appraisal of his literary work (London: Richards Press, 1954).

John McNeillie

Editions

Publications to 1945. For later titles, written as Ian Niall, see bibliography to Section 6.

The Wigtown Ploughman (1939).

Ian Macpherson

Editions

Shepherd's Calendar (London: Cape, 1931).

Land of our Fathers (London: Cape, 1933).

Pride in the Valley (London: Cape, 1936).

Wild Harbour (London: Methuen, 1936).

Bruce Marshall

Editions

Teacup Terrace (London: Hurst & Blackett, 1926).

Father Malachy's Miracle (London: Heinemann, 1931).

The Uncertain Glory (1935).

Yellow Tapers for Paris (London: Constable, 1943).

All Glorious Within (London: Constable, 1944).

George Brown's Schooldays (London: Constable, 1946).

The Red Danube (London: Constable, 1947).

The Fair Bride (London: Constable, 1953).

The Black Oxen (London: Constable, 1972).

Edwin Muir

Editions

The Marionette (London: Hogarth Press, 1927).

The Three Brothers (London: Heinemann, 1931).

Poor Tom (London: Dent, 1932).

Frederick Niven

Editions

Ellen Adair (Eveleigh Nash, 1913).

The Justice of the Peace (Eveleigh Nash, 1914).

A Tale that is Told (London: Collins, 1920).

The Three Marys (London: Collins, 1930).

Mrs Barry (London: Collins, 1933).

The Flying Years (London: Collins, 1935).

Old Soldier (London: Collins, 1936).

The Staff at Simson's (London: Collins, 1937).

Coloured Spectacles [autobiography] (London: Collins, 1938).

Mine Inheritance (London: Collins, 1940).

The Transplanted (London: Collins, 1944).

Criticism and biography

New, W.H., 'Frederick John Niven', Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 92 (Detroit: Gale, 1990), pp. 271-5.

Walker, John, '"Scotland is a kingdom of the mind": the novels of Frederick Niven', SSL24 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1989), pp. 92-106.

John Macnair Reid

Editions

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Homeward Journey (Porpoise Press, 1934; Edinburgh: Canongate, 1988).

Tobias the Rod (Ilfracombe: Stockwell, 1968).

Judy from Crown Street (Ilfracombe: Stockwell, 1970).

Edward Shiels

Edition

Gael over Glasgow (Sheed & Ward, 1937).

George Woden

Editions

Mungo (London: Hutchinson, 1932).

Othersmith (London: Hutchinson, 1936).

And many other novels, most set in Glasgow.

Other Authors

The following lists give only major works by the authors highlighted in the text.

Authors listed elsewhere in the bibliography are indicated.

Marion Angus

Editions

The Lilt and Other Poems (Aberdeen: Wylie, 1922).

The Tinker's Road and Other Verses (London and Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1924).

Sun and Candlight (Edinburgh: Porpoise, 1927).

The Singing Lass (Edinburgh: Porpoise, 1929).

The Turn of the Day (Edinburgh: Porpoise, 1931).

Lost Country and Other Verses (Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1937).

Selected Poems, ed. Maurice Lindsay (Edinburgh: Serif Books, 1950).

Criticism and biography

Caird, Janet, 'The Poetry of Marion Angus', Cencrastus 25 (Edinburgh : Cencrastus, 1987), pp. 45-7.

Whyte, Christopher, 'Marion Angus and the Boundaries of Self', A History of Scottish Women's Writing (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997).

Helen Burness Cruickshank

Editions

Up the Noran Water and Other Scots Poems (London: Methuen, 1934).

The Ponnage Pool (Edinburgh: M. MacDonald, 1968).

Collected Poems (Edinburgh: Reprographia, 1971).

Octobiography (Montrose: Standard Press, 1976).

More Collected Poems (Edinburgh: Gordon Wright, 1978).

Criticism and biography

Caird, Janet, 'The Poetry of Violet Jacob and Helen B. Cruikshank', Cencrastus 19 (Edinburgh: Cencrastus Publications, 1985), p.32.

Lochhead, Marion, 'Feminine Quartet', Chapman 27/8 (Edinburgh: Macdonald, 1980).

Porter, Dorothy, 'Scotland's Songstresses', Cencrastus 25, 1987.

'Adam Drinan' (Joseph MacLeod)

Editions

The Ecliptic [A Poem] (London, 1930).

Women of the Happy Island (Glasgow: McLellan, 1944).

Alexander Gray

Editions

Any Man's Life (Oxford: Blackwell, 1924).

Poems (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1925).

Gossip (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1928).

Songs from Heine (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1928).

Arrows: A Book of German Ballads and Folk-Songs Attempted in Scots (Edinburgh: Grant & Murray, 1932).

Robert Burns: Man and Poet (Edinburgh: J. Wilson, 1944).

Selected Poems of Alexander Gray, ed. Maurice Lindsay, (Glasgow: Maclellan, 1948).

Four and Forty: A Selection of Danish Ballads Presented in Scots (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1954).

A Timorous Civility: A Scots Miscellany (Glasgow: Collins, 1966).

George Campbell Hay

Editions

Fuaran Sleibh (Glasgow: MacGill' Phaglain, 1947).

The Wind on Loch Fyne (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1948).

O Na Ceithir Airdean (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1952).

Seeker, Reaper (Edinburgh: Saltire Society, 1988).

Collected poems and songs of George Campbell Hay (Deòrsa Mac Iain Dheòrsa), ed. Michael Byrne (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000).

Violet Jacob

Editions

See also fiction lists.

Bonnie Joann and Other Poems (London: John Murray, 1921).

More Songs of Angus (London: Country Life, 1918).

Northern Lights and Other Poems (London: John Murray, 1927).

Songs of Angus (London: John Murray, 1915).

Criticism and biography

Caird, Janet, 'The Poetry of Violet Jacob and Helen B. Cruickshank', Cencrastus 19 (Edinburgh: Cencrastus, 1984), pp. 32-4.

Hendry, Joy, 'Twentieth-Century Women's Writing: The Nest of Singing Birds', The History of Scottish Literature Vol. IV, Twentieth Century, ed. Cairns Craig, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 291-310.

William Jeffrey

Editions

Prometheus Returns, and Other Poems (London: MacDonald, 1921).

The Wise Men Come to Town, and Other Poems (Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1923).

The Nymph (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1924).

The Doom of Atlas (London: Gowans & Gray, 1926).

The Lamb of Lomond (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1926).

Mountain Songs (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1928).

The Golden Stag (Oxford: Blackwell, 1932).

Eagle of Coruisk (Oxford: Blackwell, 1933).

Fantasia Written in an Industrial Town (London: Cranley & Day, 1933).

Sea Glimmer (Glasgow: Maclellan, 1947).

Selected poems of William Jeffrey, ed. Alexander Scott (Edinburgh: Serif, 1951).

Roderick Watson Kerr

Edition

Style of Me: Letters of Eula from the U.S.A. (London: Muller, 1945).

Joseph Lee

Editions

Ballads of Battle (London: J. Murray, 1916).

Work-A-Day Warriors (London: J. Murray, 1917).

Charles Murray

Editions

Hamewith (London: Collins, 1909).

Loch Carron: Sparks from the Peat (London: Murray, 1924).

A Sough o' War (London: Constable, 1917).

Criticism and biography

Milton, Colin, 'Modern Poetry in Scotland Before MacDiarmid', The History of Scottish Literature Vol. IV, Twentieth Century, ed. Cairns Craig, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1992), pp. 1-36.

Will H. Ogilvie

Editions

Fair Girls and Gray Horses (Sydney: The Bulletin Newspaper Co., 1905).

Whaups o' the Rede: A Ballad of the Border Raiders (Dalbeattie: Fraser, 1909).

The Land We Love (Glasgow: Fraser, 1910).

The Overlander, and Other Verses (Glasgow: Fraser & Asher, 1913).

Hearts of Gold and Other Verses (London: Angus & Robertson, 1913).

Gray Horses (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1914).

The Australian, and Other Verses (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1916; second edition).

Galloping Shoes (London: Constable, 1922).

A Clean Wind Blowing: Songs of the Out-of-Doors (New York: Smith, 1930).

The Border Poems of Will H. Ogilvie (Hawick: John Murray Hood, 1959).

Lewis Spence

Editions

Plumes of Time (London: Allen & Unwin, 1926).

Weirds and Vanities (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1927).

Mary Symon

Edition

Deveron Days (Aberdeen: Wyllie, 1933).

Andrew Young

Edition

The Poetical Works of Andrew Young, eds. Edward Lowbury and Alison Young (London: Secker & Warburg, 1985).