Edwin and Willa Muir - A Literary Marriage

A joint biography of the literary marriage between Scottish poet, novelist, and translator Edwin Muir (1887-1959) and Scottish novelist, essayist, and translator Willa Muir (1890-1970).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Foreword


• Introduction


• 1: Coming Together


• ADVENTURING IN EUROPE


• 2: Prague and a New Czech Republic


• 3: Elbflorenz


• 4: 'North and South'


• 5: Fête du Citron


• PUTTING DOWN ROOTS


• 6: Early Writings


• 7: Willa and Womanhood


• 8: Crowborough and Literary Life


• THE POLITICAL THIRTIES


• 9: Changing Worlds and a Hampstead Idyll


• 10: Scottish Journeys


• 11: Scotland and Europe


• 12: Translating for a Living


• A SINGLE, DISUNITED WORLD


• 13: World War Two in St Andrews


• 14: Edinburgh and New Poetry


• 15: The Cold War and Prague Again


• 16: Roman Interlude


• 17: Newbattle Abbey


• A NEW WORLD


• 18: American Adventure


• 19: Swaffham Prior


• 20: Willa Alone


• 21: Last Years

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Margery Palmer McCulloch was an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. She has written on Neil M. Gunn and Edwin Muir and co-edited the Scottish Literary Review from 2005 to 2013. A key collection of source documents Modernism and Nationalism (2004) was followed by a monograph on Scottish Modernism and its Contexts (2009). She co-edited Scottish and International Modernisms and the Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid (2011). She had just completed this long-researched joint biography of Edwin and Willa Muir, when she suffered a stroke in 2019 and died at the age of 83. She is survived by her husband the painter Ian McCulloch and their two sons, Neil and Euan.

Zusammenfassung

A joint biography of the literary marriage between Scottish poet, novelist, and translator Edwin Muir (1887-1959) and Scottish novelist, essayist, and translator Willa Muir (1890-1970).

Zusatztext

Margery Palmer McCulloch, who wrote this perceptive and sympathetic account in her own old age, did not live to see it published.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Margery McCulloch, Margery Palmer McCulloch, The late Margery McCulloch, the Late Margery (Formerly Honorary Sen Mcculloch, the Late Margery Palmer (Formerly Honor Mcculloch
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 23.02.2023
• EAN: 9780192858047
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285804-7
• Seiten: 368
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Kunst, Literatur > Biographien, Autobiographien; Biography: literary, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets