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Jessie Kesson - Writing Her Life (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Jessie Kesson - Writing Her Life (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Jessie Kesson is forever associated with her first novel, the
fictionalised autobiography of her early years, The White Bird
Passes. Born illegitimate in a Workhouse and raised in an Elgin
slum, she was removed from her beloved but neglectful mother and
sent to an orphanage in Kirkton of Skene. There she throve and
shone, but was refused any chance of higher education, and ended up
a year in a mental hospital. After marriage, she became a cottar
wife around North East Scotland, before moving to London, where she
combined writing novels and radio plays with jobs from cleaning a
cinema to producing Woman's Hour. The first edition of her
authorised biography won the National Library of Scotland/Saltire
Research Book of the Year in 2000. It revealed an extraordinary
woman making her life and art out of all life threw at her,
overcoming and transforming it all. This second edition at last
reveals the truth about her ever-absent father, here named. Isobel
Murray is Emeritus Professor in Scottish Literature at the
University of Aberdeen, currently working on Kesson, Naomi
Mitchison and Fred Urquhart.
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