Agnes Owens: dame of darkly comic working-class stories
4 Nov, National Library of Scotland, Glasgow – free
Alasdair Gray called her “the most unfairly neglected of all living Scottish authors”. Owens began her writing career after attending a writer’s class in her middle-age “just to get out of the house”.
Agnes Owens’ archives can secure her status as a major Scottish literary figure.
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Wanted a husband who doesn’t suppose,
That all earthly employments one feminine knows—
That she’ll scrub, do the cleaning, and cooking, and baking,
And plain needlework, hats and caps, and dressmaking…
—“Wanted A Husband”, by Marion Bernstein (1846–1906), born #OTD, 16 September. A 🎂🧵
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Ye’d wonder foo the seasons rin
This side o’ Tweed an’ Tyne;
The hairst’s awa; October-month
Cam’ in a whilie syne…
—Violet Jacob, “The Neep-Fields by the Sea”
published in THE NORTHERN LIGHTS & Other Poems (John Murray, 1927)
Digitised by the National Library of Scotland
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