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🥳 Happy publication day! 🎉 HASTE YE BACKby Dorothy K. Haynesedited by Craig LamontA gifted writer of #gothic & #supernatural fiction, Dorothy K. Haynes (1918–1987) grew up in Aberlour Orphanage. In this memoir, she brings to life the residents & stories of the institution that shaped her #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #memoir #orphanage https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/haste-ye-back/
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🥳PUBLISHED TODAY🎉The International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literatureed. Maureen A. Farrell & Robert A. DavisExamining Scottish writing for children in English, Gaelic & Scots – from classics by Stevenson & Barrie to the latest works by contemporary writers, & from picturebooks to Young Adult (YA) fiction@litstudies https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic9/#Scottish #literature #childrensLiterature #kidlit #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was born #OTD, 31 March. An extraordinarily prolific anthropologist, writer & literary critic, he is best remembered today for collecting & editing fairy stories from around the worldA 🎂 🧵1/6https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/the-man-of-letters-in-fairyland-andrew-lang/#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #childrensliterature #fairytale #AndrewLang
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“…fairies persist, & become figures of fascination in this period, not because they offer an escape into the past, but because they speak powerfully, if indirectly, about present concerns”—Andrew Teverson on Andrew Lang & the Fairies2/6https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/a-shy-and-fugitive-people-andrew-lang-and-the-fairies/#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #childrensliterature #fairytale #AndrewLang
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“To me, Lang himself is a hero of literature. Besides being the champion of Robert Louis Stevenson & Haggard, he was the first critic to produce a study of Kipling’s work, found a publisher for the young Arthur Conan Doyle’s first major novel… & repeatedly informed the English that Mark Twain was one of the world’s great writers”—Michael Dirda on Andrew Lang, in the Washington Post3/6https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/more-than-a-century-later-the-wonderful-work-of-andrew-lang-holds-up-remarkably-well/2020/08/12/4bff860e-dc07-11ea-809e-b8be57ba616e_story.html#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #fairytale #AndrewLang
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“I have his complete collection of books with me at all times. I have three extra physical sets and I travel with an ebook version of them… These stories started their journey with me when I was very young”—Guillermo del Toro on Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books4/6https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/10/guillermo-del-toro-the-books-tv-film-and-music-that-brought-me-to-crimson-peak#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #childrensliterature #fairytale #AndrewLang #GuillermodelToro
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“The taste of the world, which has veered so often, is constant enough to fairy tales… we are still repeating to the boys and girls of each generation the stories that were old before Homer sang…”—from Andrew Lang’s Introduction to THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK (1889)5/6https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Blue_Fairy_Book#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #childrensliterature #fairytale #AndrewLang
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@gutenberg_org has free ebook editions of Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books, & a linked index to all the stories in all twelve volumes6/6https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30580#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #childrensliterature #fairytale #AndrewLang
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Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne married #OTD, 19 May, 1880. In this article, Prof Penny Fielding explores the dangerous collaboration between RLS & his wife: granting female agency on the page & in life1/3https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a-dangerous-collaboration/#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLS #WomenWriters
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“Without Fanny, there would be no Robert Louis Stevenson as we know him. He probably would not have written Treasure Island or finished Kidnapped, and Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde might well have been a different story from the one the world knows today”—Camille Peri on @literaryhub 2/3https://lithub.com/how-fanny-and-robert-louis-stevenson-defied-victorian-relationship-conventions/#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLS #WomenWriters
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“THE DYNAMITER is a hugely inventive & brilliant book, at once a political thriller, a blackly comic satire, & a female adventure”Download a free ebook of THE DYNAMITER by Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson via @gutenberg_org 3/3https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/647#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLS #WomenWriters
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@bodhipaksa @gutenberg_org He seems to have taken the word from Emily Gerard’s THE LAND BEYOND THE FOREST (1888):“More decidedly evil is the nosferatu, or vampire, in which every Roumanian peasant believes as firmly as he does in heaven or hell…”She did do her research in the field, & hers is the first recorded use of the term, but its origins are obscure.https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57168
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Oidhche san Taigh-tasgaidh | Night at the Museum14 July, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow – £5Bidh Oidhche san Taigh-tasgaidh a’ comharrachadh gu bheil Oilthigh Ghlaschu a’ cumail co-labhairt eadar-nà iseanta na Gà idhlig, Rannsachadh na Gà idhligNight at the Museum marks the University of Glasgow hosting the international conference of Gaelic studies, Rannsachadh na Gà idhlighttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oidhche-san-taigh-tasgaidh-night-at-the-museum-tickets-1992484989239#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #music #song #poetry