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Belonging (Paperback)
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Belonging (Paperback)
Series: Scottish Life Writing
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"But any story about human beings is bound to have an end, like
this story about us, a pair of ingenuous people who fell in love
and went journeying together through life, blundering by good luck
in the right directions so that we came to a lasting wholeness and
joy in each other. It has happened before; it will happen again; it
happened to us. We belonged together." Belonging: A Memoir by Willa
Muir, first published in 1968, is a moving and unashamed account of
her long and deep relationship with her literary husband Edwin
Muir. Beginning with their first meeting in Glasgow in 1918, Willa
Muir then charts the many travels, homes, projects, decisions, joys
and hardships of their forty-one years together. Often viewed as
being overshadowed by her more acclaimed partner, Belonging asserts
the decision of an intellectual and passionate woman to believe
that the concept of 'True Love' is the only sustaining philosophy
and basis for happiness. Willa Muir's account is however no
delusional romantic tale, and her detailed narration of her life
with Edwin Muir is balanced and grounded by her perceptive comments
of the patriarchal world she existed in and her recognition that
her own attempts at literary greatness were constantly shaped by
domestic concerns. Belonging serves therefore as a nuanced
contribution to the genre of female authored life-writing as
constructed by one of Scotland's foremost literary women. Aileen
Christianson is a Senior Lecturer in Scottish Literature at the
University of Edinburgh. Her interest in letters and journals'
relationship to published writings, as well as critical analyses of
a neglected Scottish modernist writer, has been explored in her
monograph, Moving in Circles: Willa Muir's Writings. She has also
worked in the area of gender and nation mainly in relation to
twentieth century Scottish women writers
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