Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing

Glenda Norquay is Professor of Scottish Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Her books include a monograph on Robert Louis Stevenson and Theories of Reading, the edited collection Across the Margins (with Gerry Smyth), and a number of essays and articles on Scottish women writers and on Stevenson. She edited The Collected Works of Lorna Moon, and two collections of women’s suffrage fiction and is currently editing St Ives for the New Edinburgh Edition of Stevenson.

• Acknowledgements; Series Editors’ Preface; Introduction, Glenda Norquay; 1. Spirituality, Sarah Dunnigan; 2. Gaelic Poetry and Song, Anne Frater and Michel Byrne; 3. Orality and the Ballad Tradition, Suzanne Gilbert; 4. Enlightenment Culture, Pam Perkins; 5. Domestic Fiction, Ainsley McIntosh; 6. Janet Hamilton: Working-class Memoirist and Commentator, Florence Boos; 7. Private Writing, Aileen Christianson; 8. Margaret Oliphant and the Periodical Press, Helen Sutherland; 9. Writing the Supernatural, Kirsty A. Macdonald; 10. Interwar Literature, Margery Palmer McCulloch; 11. Writing Spaces, Carol Anderson; 12. Experiment and Nation in the 1960s, Eleanor Bell; 13. Genre Fiction, Glenda Norquay; 14. Twentieth Century Poetry, Rhona Brown; 15. Contemporary Fiction, Monica Germanà; Endnotes; Further reading; Notes on Contributors.

This is a pleasant, readable collection of essays with some lively and surprising perceptions.