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“THE INHERITANCE is, then, a novel concerned with questions of morality and education, but also national identity, the differences between Scottish and English cultures, and the stereotypes within human nature that both divide and unite the two. It is also very funny”

—The Books & Borrowing 1750–1830 Project on Susan Ferrier’s second novel, THE INHERITANCE

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters

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https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/forgotten-best-sellers-susan-ferriers-the-inheritance-1824/

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“Miss Ferrier avowedly made thumb-nail sketches,—as is proved in one of the few surviving letters to or from her,—out of which grew the merciless caricatures that created her fame”

An 1893 article in The Atlantic Magazine, contrasting the careers of Susan Ferrier & Jane Austen

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1893/06/miss-austen-and-miss-ferrier/529989/

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“the foibles of the Scottish characters are usually much less detestable than those of the English”

Untrammelled by Theory: Susan Ferrier’s Polyphonic Vision of Scotland & the Union in MARRIAGE
—Benjamine Toussaint, Scottish Literary Review 8/1, 2016 – on Open Access via Project MUSE

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#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/619276

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We republished Susan Ferrier’s MARRIAGE in 2020—using the text of the acid-sharp 1819 edition rather than the sentimentalised Victorian version of 1842. Read the first chapter free online here:

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters
3/6
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/63106258/marriage-a-novel-by-susan-ferrier-vol-1-ch-1

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“Nothing could be so delightful as the style of living in Scotland; the people were so frank & gay, & the manners so easy & engaging…”

—Susan Ferrier’s MARRIAGE looks at what happens when #romantic notions of the Scottish #Highlands meet cold, damp reality…

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/marriage/

Susan Ferrier (1782–1854) was born #OTD, 7 Sept. Her 3 novels—Marriage, The Inheritance, & Destiny—are vivid & humorous accounts of Scottish society. Often compared to her contemporary #JaneAusten, Ferrier’s satires are much more vicious…

A 🎂 🧵

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#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters

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https://www.scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to-z/susan-ferrier

Harry – Violet Jacob’s only child – died aged just twenty from wounds received at the Battle of the Somme, on 16 July 1916.

“To A.H.J.”, from More Songs of Angus and Others (1918)

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WomenWriters #WW1 #WarPoetry
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Violet Jacob’s family had lived at Dun since the 15th century. The House of Dun is now maintained by the National Trust for Scotland.

This article features letters written by Violet Jacob & her son, Harry, who joined the British Army in 1914 at the outbreak of WW1

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WomenWriters #WW1
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https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/the-jacob-letters-from-the-house-of-dun

John Buchan called FLEMINGTON – Violet Jacob’s novel of the 1745 #Jacobite uprising – “the best Scots romantic novel since The Master of Ballantrae”, & The List magazine chose it as one of their Best 100 Scottish Books of All Time

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#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WomenWriters #romanticism #ReadMoreWomen
3/6

A birthday 🧵 for Violet Jacob (1863–1946) – poet, novelist, short story writer, & key figure in the 20th-century Scottish renaissance & #Scots language revival – born #OTD, 1 September

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters
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https://www.scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to-z/violet-jacob

Forgotten Bestsellers

“We have not met with any thing nearly so good as this since we read the Castle Rackrent, and the Popular Tales of Miss Edgeworth”
—The Edinburgh Review, June 1810

The Books & Borrowing 1750–1830 project blogs about Elizabeth Hamilton’s 1THE COTTAGERS OF GLENBURNIE
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #WomenWriters

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https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/forgotten-best-sellers-elizabeth-hamiltons-the-cottagers-of-glenburnie-1808/

Women writers, would you like to go on retreat with Storyknife? Applications are being accepted for a 2-week or 4-week retreat in Homer, Alaska. Learn more on the website.

https://storyknife.org/how-to-apply/

#retreat #writers #writinglife #writingcommunity #WomenWriters @edibuddies

“I think one of the things about later Chandler is this awful performance of masculinity that feels very wrong. […] I like early Marlowe when he’s comfortable with his flaws and his weaknesses. There’s a much softer Marlowe in there and a much more likable Marlowe.”

—Denise Mina on being the first woman to continue the story of Raymond Chandler’s foundational detective

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#Scottish #literature #WomenWriters #CrimeFiction #DetectiveFiction #RaymondChandler

https://crimereads.com/denise-mina-marlowe-interview/

On the 4th of August join Opal as she and her chatty Maine Coon cat Spook move to a new town full of mystery and music!

#NewBook #WomenWriters #AustralianAuthor #telepathy #mainecoon #mystery #supernatural #over60 #BookLaunch

Very happy with today's impromptu purchases:
#OCaledonia #ElspethBarker AND #TheCountryGirls (3novels) #EdnaOBrien - been eyeing these for a long time - #Literature #Womenwriters #Lovebooks

📢#OutNow in #OA: 'Destins de #femmes: #French #Women #Writers, 1750-1850' by John Claiborne Isbell.

'Destins de femmes' is the first comprehensive overview of #French #women #writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850.

John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact #womenwriters had on #French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of #Romanticart, and rapid technological change.

This anthology fills a significant gap in the secondary literature on this transformative century, which often overlooks #women who were working and active. It invites a further gendered investigation of the impact of revolution and #Romanticism on the content and nature of #French #women’s writing.

It will therefore be appropriate for both general readers, students, and academics analysing #history and #literature through a #feminist lens.

Access this OA title for free or get a hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0346

Book no. 18 of 2023.

#nowreading #literature #womenwriters

“SOLUTION THREE is undeniably polemical: it presents Mitchison’s manifesto for green politics, and for the politics of diversity.”

—Dr Gavin Miller explores Naomi Mitchison’s 1975 #sciencefiction #postapocalypse #novel SOLUTION THREE

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#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #scifi #SciFiFri

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/06/different-strokes-smokes-for-different-folks-naomi-mitchisons-solution-three/

CFP: Borders, Margins, Cartographies: Transnational Modernist Women’s Writing

4–5 Oct 2024, Tartu, Estonia

Presentations invited on minor, forgotten, or little-known #women artists & writers of #modernism – especially from so-called peripheral European places & indigenous populations within Europe, but papers on non-European authors & texts are also welcome

#literature #art #CulturalStudies #womenwriters #womenartists #CFP #CallforPapers

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https://maailmakeeled.ut.ee/en/content/borders-margins-cartographies-transnational-modernist-womens-writing

He had a crush, taboo and distressing, on his aunt Cathy’s ankles in socks. He had a crush on the anonymous shoulders of a shampoo model.

Karen Russell
Bog Girl: A Romance

#literature #books #womenwriters