History of Scottish Women's Writing Book

	Introduction
1	The Gaelic Tradition up to 1750	1
2	Scottish Women Writers c.1560-c.1650	15
3	Old Singing Women and the Canons of Scottish Balladry and Song	44
4	Women and Song 1750-1850	58
5	Selves and Others: Non-fiction Writing in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries	71
6	Burns's Sister	91
7	'Kept some steps behind him': Women in Scotland 1780-1920	103
8	Some Early Travellers	119
9	From Here to Alterity: The Geography of Femininity in the Poetry of Joanna Baillie	143
10	Some Women of the Nineteenth-century Scottish Theatre: Joanna Baillie, Frances Wright and Helen MacGregor	158
11	The Other Great Unknowns: Women Fiction Writers of the Early Nineteenth Century	179
12	Rediscovering Scottish Women's Fiction in the Nineteenth Century	196
13	Elizabeth Grant	208
14	Viragos of the Periodical Press: Constance Gordon-Cumming, Charlotte Dempster, Margaret Oliphant, Christian Isobel Johnstone	216
15	Jane Welsh Carlyle's Private Writing Career	232
16	Beyond 'The Empire of the Gentle Heart': Scottish Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century	246
17	What a Voice! Women, Repertoire and Loss in the Singing Tradition	262
18	Margaret Oliphant	274
19	Caught Between Worlds: The Fiction of Jane and Mary Findlater	291
20	Scottish Women Writers Abroad: The Canadian Experience	309
21	Women and Nation	316
22	Annie S. Swan and O. Douglas: Legacies of the Kailyard	329
23	Tales of Her Own Countries: Violet Jacob	347
24	Fictions of Development 1920-1970	360
25	Marion Angus and the Boundaries of Self	373
26	Catherine Carswell: Open the Door!	389
27	Willa Muir: Crossing the Genres	400
28	'To know Being': Substance and Spirit in the Work of Nan Shepherd	416
29	Twentieth-century Poetry I: Rachel Annand Taylor to Veronica Forrest-Thomson	428
30	More Than Merely Ourselves: Naomi Mitchison	444
31	The Modern Historical Tradition	456
32	Jane Duncan: The Homecoming of Imagination	468
33	Jessie Kesson	481
34	Scottish Women Dramatists Since 1945	494
35	The Remarkable Fictions of Muriel Spark	514
36	Vision and Space in Elspeth Davie's Fiction	526
37	Designer Kailyard	537
38	Twentieth-century Poetry II: The Last Twenty-five Years	549
39	Contemporary Fiction I: Tradition and Continuity	579
40	Contemporary Fiction II: Seven Writers in Scotland	604
41	Contemporary Fiction III: The Anglo-Scots	630
42	The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead	641
43	Women's Writing in Scottish Gaelic Since 1750	659
	Select Bibliographies of Scottish Women Writers	677
	Notes on Contributors	708
	Index	710