Reckoning with the unforgettable : taking stock of the 'recovery' of modern Scottish women writers

Burke, Lois and King, Gemma and Lauder, Charlotte (2022) Reckoning with the unforgettable : taking stock of the 'recovery' of modern Scottish women writers. Scottish Literary Review, 14 (1). xi-xv. ISSN 1756-5634 (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857662)

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Abstract

[Twenty-five years ago, in Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan’s landmark edited collection A History of Scottish Women’s Writing (1997), Moira Burgess wrote that Susan Ferrier, Mary Brunton, Margaret Oliphant, and the Findlaters were ‘merely four of the Scottish women fiction writers of the nineteenth century whose work has by and large been forgotten […] Clearly, there is a massive task of reassessment to be undertaken by a future generation of scholars.’1 We argue that this time is now: that the work of Scottish women writers from the late nineteenth century and indeed the early twentieth century is ripe for reassessment.]

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