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"Scotties" are exciting, full colour information books for young
readers. Each title contains a wealth of interesting facts,
stimulating activities, websites and suggestions for places to
visit. An 8pp pull-out black and white section with games, puzzles
and drawings for colouring-in can be used at home or photocopied
for classroom use. In this brand new title find out about: Ghosts
and Graveyards - including the Undead Sailor, and the Weeping
Tombstone; Haunted Houses - such as Haddington House with its
ghostly horse; Witches - good spells and bad spells; Hallowe'en -
guising, and Mischief Night; Fairies - fallen angels, household
helpers, changelings, and more; Glaistigs and Brownies - a glaistig
is a thin woman with a face like 'a grey stone overgrown with
lichen'; and, Merfolk - from golden-haired mermaids to the Blue Men
of the Minch.
This illuminating book traces the development of Scottish women's
writing in English from its genesis in the late eighteenth century
to its flowering in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. Hindered initially by the hostility of the Presbyterian
Church and the self-serving attitude of the male hierarchy which
denied them a proper education, an astonishing number of women
found opportunities, in the midst of domestic obligations, to
write, and often publish - novels, poetry, diaries, journalism,
letters, essays and reportage. Charlotte Waldie and Christina Keith
visited, respectively, Waterloo and Flanders in the immediate
aftermath of battle. Another intrepid writer, Emily Graves, wrote a
memoir of her travels in Transylvania in The Light Beyond the
Forest - from which Bram Stoker directly lifted the most
blood-curdling elements of Dracula. Others remembered include
literary multi-tasker and businesswoman Christian Isabel Johnstone;
playwright Joanna Baillie; working-class poets Marion Bernstein and
Janet Hamilton; novelist Susan Ferrier; memoirist Anne Grant of
Laggan; and writer and scientist Mary Somerville, depicted on the
cover, after whom Somerville College, Oxford is named.
There is no denying Queen Margaret's imaginative hold on
generations of Scots. Born c.1046, she died in 1094 and was
canonised in 1250. She stands on a line between the late
Celtic/Norse and early medieval periods; although she was
contemporaneous with the Vikings, by her time the Roman church was
firmly established in all but the outer reaches of Europe, among
which was Scotland. Margaret, a princess of impeccable lineage who
was reared at the courts of Andrew II of Hungary and Edward the
Confessor, became the representative of both the Roman communion
and French/English culture when she married Malcolm III, King of
Scots, around 1070. Eileen Dunlop re-examines the well-documented
accounts of Queen Margaret and from a modern viewpoint looks at the
contradictions in her life, her marriage, her death and the
differing reactions she has aroused.
'For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door And Leerie
stops to light it, as he lights so many more...' The picture of a
small boy peering from a window at dusk to watch the lamplighter in
the street is one of the enduring images of 19th-century Edinburgh,
and the child probably the most famous ever brought up there.
Robert Louis Stevenson loved to conjure up a dashing, romantic
lineage for himself, dreaming that he was descended from the
colourful outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor. The reality was less flamboyant
but no less remarkable and he would learn that the street lamps of
Edinburgh owed their brilliance to the scientific work of his own
great-grandfather. This welcome addition to the Robert Louis
Stevenson canon gives a concise account of his life - his family
background, childhood and adolescence in a Calvinist, hard-working
household in Scotland, his travels in three continents and his
final years in the South Seas.It examines his relationships with
his parents and his nurse, with English and American friends,
particularly the family into which he married, and with the Samoan
islanders among whom he died at the age of 44. Stevenson's
childhood experiences and Scottish identity fed his fertile
imagination wherever he found himself. His legacy includes travel
writing, essays and poetry, and novels such as "Treasure Island",
"Kidnapped", "The Master of Ballantrae", "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde", "St Ives" and "Weir of Hermiston", still read and
enjoyed more than one hundred years after his death. "Robert Louis
Stevenson: The Travelling Mind" is an insightful introduction to
the life and work of one of the world's best-loved writers.
Set in the aftermath of the 1707 Union of the Parliaments, Sir
Walter Scott's romantic tragedy The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
conveys the anxiety of a fractured Scottish society through the
ill-fated romance of two young lovers, Edgar and Lucy. With its
heady gothic mixture of history, fiction, humour, romance, and the
supernatural, The Bride of Lammermoor is both intriguing and
entertaining, and an ideal text for further study. Eileen Dunlop's
SCOTNOTE explores and explains the historical, social and political
background of this influential novel, and is an ideal study guide
for senior school pupils and students.
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