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<p>CFP: “Our three-voiced country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing<br>26–28 Jun 2026, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye</p><p>Proposals for papers are invited exploring literary interactions between Gaelic, Scots & English in poetry, drama, the novel, song, media, & education in the 20th century – deadline 2 Feb</p><p>@litstudies </p><p><a href="https://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-bhliadhnail-asl-2026/?lang=en" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-bhliadhnail-asl-2026/?lang=en"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-</span><span class="invisible">bhliadhnail-asl-2026/?lang=en</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/gaelic/" rel="tag">#Gaelic</a> <a href="/tags/gaidhlig/" rel="tag">#Gaidhlig</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scottishlanguage/" rel="tag">#ScottishLanguage</a> <a href="/tags/drama/" rel="tag">#drama</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#novel</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/song/" rel="tag">#song</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/film/" rel="tag">#film</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/mediastudies/" rel="tag">#mediastudies</a></p>

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<p>The First Canadian Novel</p><p>Often considered the first Canadian novel, The History of Emily Montague revealed its author’s true feelings about colonial Quebec.</p><p>By: Emily Zarevich </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/the-first-canadian-novel/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily-10232025" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/the-first-canadian-novel/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily-10232025"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/the-first-cana</span><span class="invisible">dian-novel/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily-10232025</span></a></p><p>Frances Brooke at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6606" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6606"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/6606</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Cover page of The history of Emily Montague
by Brooke, Frances, 1724?-1789; Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. NcD

Publication date 1777
Topics Québec (Québec) -- History -- Fiction
Publisher London : Printed for J. Dodsley

https://archive.org/details/historyofemilymo01broo/page/n7/mode/1up

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<p>O whence the leaves<br>scuttering down Easter Road,<br>sycamore and rowan<br>desperate as refugees,<br>crowding against the wheels of street-side dumpsters<br>– common leaves<br>with two-three crisp packets, like gaudy imposters<br>fleeing by outside the corner-shop<br>convenient for milk and pornography…</p><p>—Kathleen Jamie, “Autumn”<br>published in THE BONNIEST COMPANIE (Picador, 2015)</p><p><a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/the-bonniest-companie/9781509801718" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/the-bonniest-companie/9781509801718"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.panmacmillan.com/authors/k</span><span class="invisible">athleen-jamie/the-bonniest-companie/9781509801718</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/autumn/" rel="tag">#autumn</a> <a href="/tags/edinburgh/" rel="tag">#Edinburgh</a></p>

Autumn
by Kathleen Jamie

O whence the leaves
scuttering down Easter Road,
sycamore and rowan
desperate as refugees,
crowding against the wheels of street-side dumpsters
– common leaves
with two-three crisp packets, like gaudy imposters
fleeing by outside the corner-shop
convenient for milk and pornography …

see the leaves hurry, Shy but Dirty –
past the Chinese nail-bar,
Mr Greg’s Tatoos –
they’re here, look:
blown into your stair
with the pizza delivery leaflets …
O whither the leaves?

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<p>Short Works: The Cottage</p><p>Labouring for your dad in the summer holidays is grim enough without factoring in a ruined cottage where normal rules don't apply …</p><p>Currently on BBC Sounds – a new short work from award-winning writer Callum McSorley</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ks5w" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ks5w"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002k</span><span class="invisible">s5w</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/audio/" rel="tag">#audio</a> <a href="/tags/audiobooks/" rel="tag">#audiobooks</a></p>

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<p>American illustrator, author, youth leader Daniel Carter Beard died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1941.</p><p>In 1905, Beard founded an organization called "The Sons of Daniel Boone," which aimed to teach boys outdoor skills, woodcraft, and self-reliance. This organization was one of the first to emphasize the importance of outdoor education and adventure for youth. The Sons of Daniel Boone was later merged with the Boy Scouts of America.</p><p>Books by Daniel Carter Beard at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8612" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8612"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/8612</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Daniel Carter Beard, American author, illustrator, and youth leader
Underwood & Underwood - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3a02553.

An elderly man proudly dons a military uniform adorned with medals, reflecting his honorable service.

Beard's frontispiece for Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Daniel Carter Beard - Library of Congress[1]
"Knight in armor tilting at man in modern dress in tree onto which a man in modern dress has climbed for refuge", "Published as frontispiece in: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Samuel Clemens. New York : Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889. ", "1 drawing : pen and ink over graphite underdrawing ; sheet 36 x 57.1 cm."

Captain Jinks, Hero, from the 1902 book of the same name by Ernest Crosby, illustrated by Beard
Daniel Carter Beard - The Project Gutenberg EBook of Captain Jinks, Hero, by Ernest Crosby
"Captain Jinks, Hero". "SAM WAS TAKEN STRADDLING A CHAIR" Frontispiece of Captain Jinks, Hero by Ernest Crosby, illustrated by Dan Beard NEW YORK AND LONDON FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY February 1902 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19353

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<p>What do you do when the sun forgets to come out<br>in the longest darkness of winter months?<br>Bueno I go out into the frosted forest<br>all things twinkling with ice like tiny eyes with a lust for life…</p><p>—Juana Adcock, “What do you do…”<br>published in SPLIT (Blue Diode, 2019)</p><p><a href="https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/split-by-juana-adcock" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/split-by-juana-adcock"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bluediode.co.uk/product-pa</span><span class="invisible">ge/split-by-juana-adcock</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/mexico/" rel="tag">#Mexico</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/winter/" rel="tag">#winter</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="/tags/multilingualism/" rel="tag">#multilingualism</a></p>

Poetry Book Society postcard for Joana Adcock’s collection SPLIT, Winter 2019 Choice. Next to an abstract pattern on black cracks is the text of a poem:

What do you do when the sun forgets to come out
in the longest darkness of winter months?
Bueno I go out into the frosted forest
all things twinkling with ice like tiny eyes with a lust for life
and leaves crunching underfoot
glaciers chippit oot her glens
ahint ahint ahí atrás estás
están
las stars
staunin still

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<p>Michel Byrne on poet & translator George Campbell Hay | Deòrsa Mac Iain Dheòrsa (1915–1984) – born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 8 Dec</p><p>Gaelic & Scots: Cultural Connections & Inspirations in the 20th Century (Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland & Ulster webinar, 6 May 2025)</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIesmENZ0Iw" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIesmENZ0Iw"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIesmE</span><span class="invisible">NZ0Iw</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/gaelic/" rel="tag">#Gaelic</a> <a href="/tags/gaidhlig/" rel="tag">#Gaidhlig</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a></p>

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<p>James Macpherson (1736–1796), of “Ossian” fame, was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 27 Oct. The “Ossian” poems were the literary sensation of the 18th century; they inspired the Brothers Grimm to collect German folktales, & Elias Lönnrot to compile Finnish poems into the Kalevala. They are the founding texts of European Romanticism & of modern fantasy literature </p><p>A 🎂🧵 </p><p>@litstudies <br>1/9<br>🖼️: Ingres, Le Songe d’Ossian</p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/romanticism/" rel="tag">#romanticism</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/ossian/" rel="tag">#Ossian</a> <a href="/tags/jamesmacpherson/" rel="tag">#JamesMacpherson</a> <a href="/tags/gaelic/" rel="tag">#Gaelic</a> <a href="/tags/gaidhlig/" rel="tag">#Gaidhlig</a></p>

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Le Songe d’Ossian (1813)

The poet Ossian sleeps and dreams of relatives, warriors and deities, which appear above him. Ossian is seated in the centre foreground, dreaming while leaning on his harp. The poet is accompanied in the rocky landscape by a hound. The figures above Ossian are ghosts of the past and are part of his titular dream. The vision is framed on the right by Ossian's son Oscar bearing a spear and shield and on the left by a seated woman who holds a bow with one hand and extends the other towards Ossian. Behind this female figure is Ossian's father, Fingal, who leads a group of warriors, some of whom are embraced by naked women. In the centre of the dream, four maidens play harps in the clouds before a seated and long-haired Snow King Starno.

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<p>In July 1917</p><p>Siegfried Sassoon issues a "Soldier's Declaration" against prolonging World War I. He is sent by the military (with assistance from Robert Graves) to Edinburgh's Craiglockhart War Hospital, where Wilfred Owen introduces himself on August 18. At Sassoon's urging, Owen writes his two great war poems, "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum est", although like almost all his poetry they remain unpublished until after his death in action next year. </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

A scan of a final draft of Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen, penned by the author.

Wilfred Owen (d. 1918) - This image is taken from The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive, which scanned it from the printed edition of Wilfred Owen: The Complete Poems and Fragments (Jon Stallworthy, 1994) from the Oxford Text Archive.

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<p>The Lessons of Due Process in Julius Caesar</p><p>Shakespeare’s tragedy offers a telling parable about the administration of justice—and rife mishandling thereof—in our day.</p><p>By: Philip Goldfarb Styrt </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/the-lessons-of-due-process-in-julius-caesar/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K87ETKMS0EZD48BZ10CE3FVQ&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/the-lessons-of-due-process-in-julius-caesar/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K87ETKMS0EZD48BZ10CE3FVQ&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/the-lessons-of</span><span class="invisible">-due-process-in-julius-caesar/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K87ETKMS0EZD48BZ10CE3FVQ&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>Julius Caesar at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1522" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1522</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Aftermath of the attack with Caesar's body abandoned in the foreground, La Mort de César by Jean-Léon Gérôme, c. 1859–1867.

In 44CE a group of senators banded together to kill Julius Caesar, who they believed was taking too much power for himself and endangering the Roman Republic. Rather than show the dramatic moment that the conspirators attacked, as artists had often done before him, Gérôme chose to depict the moment immediately following Caesar’s murder. His body is abandoned in the foreground next to a toppled throne, and the senators rush out into the sunlight with their swords held aloft. Only one man is left in the seats to the right, brooding over the scene. The dramatic use Gérôme makes of architecture, lighting, and props is a lesson in scenography. His highly choreographed paintings influenced early filmmakers and continue to resonate in movies and serials set in ancient Roman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Julius_Caesar#/media/File:Jean-L%C3%A9on_G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_-_The_Death_of_Caesar_-_Walters_37884.jpg

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<p>“[Milne’s] cryogenics story, ‘Ten Thousand Years in Ice’, in which a survivor from an ancient advanced civilisation is revived in the present, unintentionally became one of science fiction’s great literary hoaxes”</p><p>Robert Duncan Milne (1844–1899) was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 7 June, in Cupar, Fife. He emigrated to the USA & became America’s first full-time writer of <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> </p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/victorian/" rel="tag">#Victorian</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> </p><p>1/5<br><a href="https://theconversation.com/remembering-the-lost-father-of-american-science-fiction-and-his-scottish-roots-78968" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/remembering-the-lost-father-of-american-science-fiction-and-his-scottish-roots-78968"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/rememberin</span><span class="invisible">g-the-lost-father-of-american-science-fiction-and-his-scottish-roots-78968</span></a></p>

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<p>Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist Giacomo Leopardi died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1837.</p><p>Around 1816, Leopardi experienced what he called his "literary conversion," shifting his focus from philological studies to poetry and philosophical reflection. His early lyrical poems, or "canti," began to reflect his developing philosophical ideas. In 1816 the idylls Le rimembranze and Inno a Nettuno were published.</p><p>Books by Giacomo Leopardi at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8593" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8593"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/8593</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

Domenico Morelli, Portrait of Giacomo Leopardi, 1842, believed by acquaintances to be most faithful to the poet's physical appearance.

Portrait of a man wearing a stylish blue suit in a painting.

Manoscritto autografo de L'infinito. (Visso, Archivio comunale)

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<p>‘The Garb of Old Gaul’: Romanticised Gaelic Highlanders & Intercultural Mobility<br>4 November, online – free</p><p>Prof Silke Stroh discusses the 18th-century song “The Garb of Old Gaul” – an example of the romanticisation of Highland soldiers. She traces the song’s textual history, argues that the English text might be older than is commonly assumed, & sheds new light on the Gaelic translations</p><p><a href="https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/read</span><span class="invisible">ing-scotland/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/highlands/" rel="tag">#Highlands</a> <a href="/tags/romanticism/" rel="tag">#romanticism</a> <a href="/tags/gaelic/" rel="tag">#Gaelic</a> <a href="/tags/gaidhlig/" rel="tag">#Gaidhlig</a></p>

READING SCOTLAND
with Silke Stroh

‘The Garb of Old Gaul’: Romanticised Gaelic Highlanders and Intercultural Mobility

Tuesday 4th November 2025
6:00–7:30 p.m. (German time) on MS Teams

www.scotland.uni-mainz.de

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1893.</p><p>The Shelley Memorial is inaugurated at University College, Oxford, from which the poet was expelled in 1811. It is designed by Basil Champneys, with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford. Although Shelley was expelled from the college, he remains one of its most famous alumni and is now held in high honour there.</p><p>Shelley Memorial all washed up?<br>By Josh Pull via @Cherwell </p><p><a href="https://www.cherwell.org/2005/04/22/shelley-memorial-all-washed-up/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cherwell.org/2005/04/22/shelley-memorial-all-washed-up/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cherwell.org/2005/04/22/sh</span><span class="invisible">elley-memorial-all-washed-up/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Percy Bysshe Shelley, by Alfred Clint (died 1883).

Portrait of a man wearing a black jacket and white shirt, exuding elegance and style.

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<p>"Our national epic has yet to be written."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1904.</p><p>Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday" in honour of the novel's main character Leopold Bloom.</p><p>Happy Bloomsday Day!</p><p>Ulysses is available at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Announcement of the initial publication of Ulysses

Source: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/photoneg/oneITEM.asp?pid=39002036127232&iid=3612723&srchtype=

Sylvia Beach's press release and order form for Ulysses.

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<p>Ovid’s Metamorphoses is all about mothers</p><p>Mothers don’t normally belong in Latin epics, which were meant to be devoted to warriors and warfare.</p><p>by Frances Myatt</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/ovids-metamorphoses-is-all-about-mothers-266383?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%208%202025%20-%203610136859&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%208%202025%20-%203610136859+CID_dd5bfffedf1c121cf798264446dd13b0&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Ovids%20Metamorphoses%20is%20all%20about%20mothers" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/ovids-metamorphoses-is-all-about-mothers-266383?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%208%202025%20-%203610136859&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%208%202025%20-%203610136859+CID_dd5bfffedf1c121cf798264446dd13b0&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Ovids%20Metamorphoses%20is%20all%20about%20mothers"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/ovids-meta</span><span class="invisible">morphoses-is-all-about-mothers-266383?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%208%202025%20-%203610136859&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%208%202025%20-%203610136859+CID_dd5bfffedf1c121cf798264446dd13b0&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Ovids%20Metamorphoses%20is%20all%20about%20mothers</span></a></p><p>Metamorphoses at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21765" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21765</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Page from the edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses published by Lucantonio Giunti in Venice, 1497.

A 1497 Venice printed page from Ovid's Metamorphoses, published by Lucantonio Giunti. Features elaborate Renaissance border decoration with mythological scenes, ornate floral patterns, decorative initial letters, and Italian text in two columns beneath a woodcut illustration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses#/media/File:Ovidius_Naso_-_Metamorphoses,_del_MCCCCLXXXXVII_Adi_X_del_mese_di_aprile_-_1583162_Carta_a1r.jpeg

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<p>French novelist, memoirist and journalist George Sand died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1876.</p><p>Sand's writing combines elements of Romanticism and early Realism, with rich descriptions, strong emotions, and detailed character studies. Her novels often critique societal norms, particularly the limitations placed on women and the injustices faced by the lower classes. </p><p>Books by George Sand at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/851" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/851"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/851</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

George Sand (esquisse) par Eugène Delacroix en 1838. Collection Ordrupgaard museum de Copenhague.

Serene woman depicted in a painting, holding a white handkerchief delicately.

La Mare au diable.
Edmond Rudaux — Bibliothèque nationale de France
Illustrations de La Mare au Diable par Edmond Rudaux, dess. et grav. ; George Sand, aut. du texte

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<p>"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason."<br>The Age of Reason (1794)</p><p>Thomas Paine died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1809.</p><p>He had a great influence on the thoughts and ideas which led to the American Revolution and the United States Declaration of Independence. He wrote three of the most influential and controversial works of the 18th Century: Common Sense, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason.</p><p>Books by Thomas Paine at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/91" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/91"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/91</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Laurent Dabos – Thomas Paine.

Image of older man in formal black suit, emanating a sense of grace and experience.

Title page from the first English edition of Part I

Paine, Thomas. The Age of Reason. Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

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<p>SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/2 (Autumn/Winter 2025)</p><p>The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via Project MUSE (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly! Papers range from medieval poetry, through 18th- & 19th-century literature, to Muriel Spark & the Brontës</p><p>@litstudies </p><p><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55415" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>muse.jhu.edu/issue/55415</a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/medieval/" rel="tag">#medieval</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/jameshogg/" rel="tag">#JamesHogg</a> <a href="/tags/robertburns/" rel="tag">#RobertBurns</a> <a href="/tags/murielspark/" rel="tag">#MurielSpark</a> <a href="/tags/brontes/" rel="tag">#Brontes</a></p>

A dark blue journal cover with white lettering:

SCOTTISH
LITERARY
REVIEW

Autumn | Winter 2025
Journal of the Association for Scottish Literature

The cover illustration shows an open book, lying on its back, with four stylised, twisty thistles growing from between its fanned pages.

Contents page 1

Editorial

Kang-yen Chiu: Resistance to Accommodation: Postcolonial Readings of the Highland Clearances in Iain Crichton Smith’s Consider the Lilies

Megan Coyer: ‘By famine, sword, and pestilence’: James Hogg and Cholera in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country

Alison Denham: William Thom (1798–1848), Weaver Poet: The London Years

Katherine Ferrier: The Literary Gossiping of Susan Ferrier

Mao Guihua and Zheng Ronghua: Animal Subjectivity in the Poetry of Robert Burns Under the Animal Turn

Scott Hames: Tom Nairn as Essayist: Romantic Negativity and Critical Imagination

Sarah Harlan-Haughey: Low Visibility: ‘wickit wedderis’ and the Contest of Knowledge in The Taill of Rauf Coilȝear

Kaiyue He: Muriel Spark and the House of the Brontës: Female Authorship and Autonomy

Contents page 2

Joanna Martin: ‘He in alle thing wele temperite was’: The Emotional Language of The Buik of King Alexander The Conquerour

Ian Cameron Robertson: Green Blades Among the Rubble – Posterity’s Judgement on The Minstrel?

Angus Sutherland: Hogg and the Ettrick Clearances

Annalisa Nicholson: Octonaries upon the Vanitie and Inconstancie of the World, by Esther Inglis; an essay, by Jamie Reid Baxter (review)

Trish Reid: Plays in Scots, Volume 1 and Volume 2, by Michel Tremblay (review)

Honor Rieley: The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation, 1640–1800, edited by Nicholas Brownlees (review)

Désha Osborne: Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons: Romanticism’s Black Geographies, by Katey Castellano (review)

Adam Kozaczka: Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions, edited by Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt (review)

Zsuzsanna Varga: A modern skót irodalom a 19. század végétől napjainkig [Modern Scottish Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day], by Attila Dósa (review)

Contents page 3

Lois Burke: The International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature, edited by Maureen A. Farrell and Robert A. Davis (review)

Scott Lyall: History of a Revoluter: The Life of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon, by William K. Malcolm (review)

Peter Auger: Mary Queen of Scots: The First Biography: With the Life and Times of Its Author, George Con, by Ronald Santangeli (review)

Amy Wilcockson: Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century, by Sarah Sharp (review)

Hilary Clydesdale: Scottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life, by Juliet Shields (review)

Notes on Contributors

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<p>Beyond Winnie-the-Pooh: On A.A. Milne’s Romance Novels</p><p>Gyles Brandreth Explores the Adult Side of an Iconic Children’s Author</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/beyond-winnie-the-pooh-on-a-a-milnes-romance-novels/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/beyond-winnie-the-pooh-on-a-a-milnes-romance-novels/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/beyond-winnie-the-p</span><span class="invisible">ooh-on-a-a-milnes-romance-novels/</span></a></p><p>Milne at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/730</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

A. A. Milne, with his son Christopher Robin and the original Pooh Bear, at Cotchford Farm, their home in Sussex, photographed in the year that Winnie-the-Pooh was first published.

A 1926 sepia photograph by Howard Coster showing A.A. Milne with his young son Christopher Robin and the original Winnie-the-Pooh teddy bear at Cotchford Farm, taken the year Winnie-the-Pooh was published.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Milne#/media/File:A._A._Milne_with_his_son_Christopher_Robin_Milne_and_Pooh_Bear_-_Howard_Coster_-_NPG_P715.jpg

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<p>"Destiny and history are untidy."<br>Nightwood (1936)</p><p>American writer, journalist, and artist Djuna Barnes died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1982.</p><p>"Ryder" was Barnes's first novel, a semi-autobiographical and highly experimental work. "Nightwood" is widely regarded as Barnes's masterpiece. The novel is a dense, poetic exploration of love, identity, and despair, set in the bohemian world of Paris and Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s.</p><p>Books by Djuna Barnes at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/51179" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/51179"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/51179</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Djuna Barnes, c. 1921.

A fashionable woman wearing a polka dot scarf and hat, radiating sophistication and style.

Illustration from The Book of Repulsive Women
Djuna Barnes - Poe's Mother: Selected Drawings of Djuna Barnes, ed. Douglas Messerli, ISBN 1-55713-143-0, p. 95

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<p>“A Conflicted, Imperfect Love.” Jesmyn Ward on William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying</p><p>“I realized he was kin in telling this complicated, complex story that is Mississippi.” (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/a-conflicted-imperfect-love-jesmyn-ward-on-william-faulkners-as-i-lay-dying/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KE5W7XNRXXS2MZDKNH70YJS5&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/a-conflicted-imperfect-love-jesmyn-ward-on-william-faulkners-as-i-lay-dying/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KE5W7XNRXXS2MZDKNH70YJS5&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/a-conflicted-imperf</span><span class="invisible">ect-love-jesmyn-ward-on-william-faulkners-as-i-lay-dying/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KE5W7XNRXXS2MZDKNH70YJS5&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>Mississippi at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=mississippi" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=mississippi"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=mississippi</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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<p>In Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ the Titular Scientist Laments His Nightmarish Creation. But the Real World Can’t Get Enough of His Monster</p><p>by Kayla Randall </p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-mary-shelleys-frankenstein-the-titular-scientist-laments-his-nightmarish-creation-but-the-real-world-cant-get-enough-of-his-monster-180987538/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-mary-shelleys-frankenstein-the-titular-scientist-laments-his-nightmarish-creation-but-the-real-world-cant-get-enough-of-his-monster-180987538/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/history</span><span class="invisible">/in-mary-shelleys-frankenstein-the-titular-scientist-laments-his-nightmarish-creation-but-the-real-world-cant-get-enough-of-his-monster-180987538/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550</span></a></p><p>Frankenstein at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/movies/" rel="tag">#Movies</a></p>

Victor Frankenstein becoming disgusted at his creation. Illustration from the frontispiece of the 1831 edition. Steel engraving (993 x 71mm) to the revised edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, published by Colburn and Bentley, London 1831. The novel was first published in 1818.

It depicts Victor Frankenstein recoiling in horror as his monstrous creation comes to life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein#/media/File:Frontispiece_to_Frankenstein_1831.jpg

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<p>"The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire."<br>A Glastonbury Romance</p><p>English novelist John Cowper Powys died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1963.</p><p>He appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance, Weymouth Sands, and Maiden Castle have been called his Wessex novels.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4710" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4710"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/4710</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Rework of file from a scan photo from After The Victorians.

An elegant man in formal attire seated on a chair.

Cover of Rodmoor: A Romance by John Cowper Powys.

"Rodmoor: A Romance" is a novel by John Cowper Powys, first published in 1916. It is one of Powys's early works, reflecting his characteristic blend of rich psychological insight and a deep connection to nature and place.

"Rodmoor" is considered an important early work in Powys's oeuvre. While it may not be as well-known as some of his later novels like "Wolf Solent" or "A Glastonbury Romance," it is valued for its psychological complexity and its vivid portrayal of the English landscape. The novel has been praised for its deep characterizations and the way it prefigures themes that Powys would continue to explore in his later works.

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<p>"To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."<br>Opening line.</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1872.</p><p>Thomas Hardy's second novel (and the first set in Wessex), Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, is published in London (as "by the author of Desperate Remedies").</p><p>A movie (1929) was made based on this book, directed by Harry Lachman and starring Marguerite Allan, Nigel Barrie and Wilfred Shine.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2662" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/2662</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Title page of Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School.

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