Sunday 15th March 2020.
Dear Visitor, Due to the current world health situation regarding the COVID-19 virus, we have taken the decision to close the cafe and tourist centre for approximately 21 days, as from Monday 16th March 2020. The wellbeing of our customers and staff is of...
Grand Re-Opening!
The Centre opens at 10 am this Monday, so why not drop by and try out the new menus, delicious cakes, steaming cuppas, and aromatic coffees?
Writing as Female Flight
Albrecht Durer (German 1471-1528), National Galleries of Scotland "Flying is woman's gesture-flying in language and making it fly." In the previous two blogs, I wrote about how Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s texts have a remarkable feminine quality to them that are due, in...
Feminine Writing: Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Gender Fluidity
J. Leslie Mitchell with daughter Rhea, Grassic Gibbon Centre What is feminine writing? What marks a feminine (not to be confused with female which refers to the sex of a writer) text? Though some particularly loud voices in society have not checked their science, we...
Emma Rose Miller - Blog Author
Emma Rose Miller
Emma authors blog content for the Grassic Gibbon Center. In 2019, she relocated from Tucson, Arizona to Arbuthnott to conduct research as a Bilinski Fellow. She holds a BA, MLitt, and MA in English and Scottish Literature, and an MFA in Creative Writing. She is currently finishing her PhD in Literature with a focus on time, language, and magic in the works of Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Sir Walter Scott. Her interest in Gibbon, specifically, began when she read the Scots Quair and discovered that Gibbon had somehow managed to articulate all of her own secret feelings and thoughts that had previously eluded language. She taught Sunset Song to college freshman at the University of Arizona for several years and enjoyed watching new readers discover the clay fields of Blawearie and the plaintive cry of the peewits.