Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: A History of Scottish Women's Writing ix
4. 1. The Gaelic Tradition up to 1750 1
5. 2. Scottish Women Writers c.l560-c.l650 15
6. 3. Old Singing Women and the Canons of Scottish Balladry and Song 44
7. 4. Women and Song 1750-1850 58
8. 5. Selves and Others: Non~fiction Writing in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 71
9. 6. Bums's Sister 91
10. 7. 'Kept some steps behind him': Women in Scotland 1780-1920 103
11. 8. Some Early Travellers 119
12. 9. From Here to Alterity: The Geography of Femininity in the Poetry of Joanna Baillie 143
13. 10. Some Women of the Nineteenth~century Scottish Theatre: Joanna Baillie, Frances Wright and Helen MacGregor 158
14. 11. The Other Great Unknowns: Women Fiction Writers of the Early Nineteenth Century 179
15. 12. Rediscovering Scottish Women's Fiction in the Nineteenth Century 196
16. 13. Elizabeth Grant 208
17. 14. Viragos of the Periodical Press: Constance Gordon,Cumming, Charlotte Dempster, Margaret Oliphant, Christian Isobel Johnstone 216
18. 15. Jane Welsh Carlyle's Private Writing Career 232
19. 16. Beyond 'The Empire of the Gentle Heart': Scottish Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century 246
20. 17. What a Voice! Women, Repertoire and Loss in the Singing Tradition 262
21. 18. Margaret Oliphant 274
22. 19. Caught Between Worlds: The Fiction of Jane and Mary Findlater 291
23. 20. Scottish Women Writers Abroad: The Canadian Experience 309
24. 21. Women and Nation 316
25. 22. Annie S. Swan and 0. Douglas: Legacies of the Kailyard 329
26. 23. Tales of Her Own Countries: Violet Jacob 347
27. 24. Fictions of Development 1920-1970 360
28. 25. Marion Angus and the Boundaries of Self 373
29. 26. Catherine Carswell: Open the Door! 389
30. 27. Willa Muir: Crossing the Genres 400
31. 28. 'To know Being': Substance and Spirit in the Work of Nan Shepherd 416
32. 29. Twentieth,century Poetry 1: Rachel Annand Taylor to Veronica Forrest, Thomson 428
33. 30. More Than Merely Ourselves: Naomi Mitchison 444
34. 31. The Modem Historical Tradition 456
35. 32. Jane Duncan: The Homecoming of Imagination 468
36. 33. Jessie Kesson 481
37. 34. Scottish Women Dramatists Since 1945 494
38. 35. The Remarkable Fictions of Muriel Spark 514
39. 36. Vision and Space in Elspeth Davie's Fiction 526
40. 37. Designer Kailyard 537
41. 38. Twentieth,century Poetry II: The Last Twenty,five Years 549
42. 39. Contemporary Fiction 1: Tradition and Continuity 579
43. 40. Contemporary Fiction II: Seven Writers in Scotland 604
44. 41. Contemporary Fiction III: The Anglo,Scots 630
45. 42. The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead 641
46. 43. Women's Writing in Scottish Gaelic Since 1750 659
47. Select Bibliographies of Scottish Women Writers 677
48. Notes on Contributors 708
49. Index 710