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).

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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).

Additional text

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

Product details

• Authors: Margery McCulloch, Margery Palmer McCulloch, The late Margery McCulloch, the Late Margery (Formerly Honorary Sen Mcculloch, the Late Margery Palmer (Formerly Honor Mcculloch
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2023
• EAN: 9780192858047
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285804-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; 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