'Who were they'? Recovering Jessie Annie Anderson as a case study of the Scottish Women Poets in Hugh MacDiarmid's Northern Numbers (1920–22)
Lauder, Charlotte (2022) 'Who were they'? Recovering Jessie Annie Anderson as a case study of the Scottish Women Poets in Hugh MacDiarmid's Northern Numbers (1920–22). Scottish Literary Review, 14 (1). pp. 85-106. ISSN 1756-5634 (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857656)
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Abstract
Of the fourteen women included in Hugh MacDiarmid’s poetry anthology, Northern Numbers (1920–22), only four are relatively well known in the reading public’s consciousness and academic scholarship. As for the rest, very little information has been gathered. This essay presents a case study of one of the women in Northern Numbers, Jessie Annie Anderson (1861–1931), who was a prodigious and eclectic working-class poet, writer, magazine editor, and cultural revivalist. Although considered on the fringes of the Scottish Literary Revival, Anderson’s career complicates our understanding of revival as a poet who straddled the rise of the popular penny press in Scotland in the 1880s and the emergence of the Scottish Literary Revival in the 1920s. This essay brings together Anderson’s life, letters, and work in conversation for the first time and re-evaluates her as part of the generation of Scottish women writers for whom literature was a source of income in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Item type: Article ID code: 81330 Dates: DateEvent4 July 2022Published23 June 2022Published Online23 April 2022AcceptedSubjects: Language and Literature > English literature Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > English Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 04 Jul 2022 10:25 Last modified: 30 Sep 2024 00:35 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/81330