Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing

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Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing is written by Glenda Norquay and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0748644458 (ISBN 10) and 9780748644452 (ISBN 13).

Recognises the richness of women's contribution to Scottish literature. By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which women lived and wrote. It places the work of established writers such as Margaret Oliphant, Naomi Mitchison and A.L. Kennedy in new contexts and discusses the writing of critically neglected figures such as Sileas na Ceapaich, Mary Queen of Scots, Anne Grant, Janet Hamilton, Isabella Bird, F. Marion McNeill and Denise Mina. There are chapters on women in Gaelic culture, women's relationship to oral traditions and to key literary periods, women's engagements with nationalism, with space, with genre fiction and with the activity of reading.