Arbuthnott Art and Craft Exhibition: A Review
Works by Katie Hillard, Gaye Thornton-Kemsley, Elizabeth Brown, and Cammy Adam. Stepping into the Arbuthnott Art and Craft Exhibition at the Grassic Gibbon Centre, four large images on the immediate left hand wall claim my attention first. In black, white, and an...
Something to Read in Hard Times
Many of us are familiar with the more explicitly Scottish works by J. Leslie Mitchell, written under his pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Sunset Song has seen many editions and is taught in classrooms across Scotland. Terrance Davies directed a major motion film...
Gibbon’s Modernist Feminism: A “Let” of Her Own
Daisy Ridley as Rey in The Force Awakens: Wikipedia It is impossible to date the beginning of feminism. Every age has had its own ideas about the relationships between the sexes and the roles assigned to different genders.What qualifies something as feminist changes...
Moanin’ on ilka green loanin’: Nature After War
https://www.grassicgibbon.com/product/a-scots-quair-3/ In his work on Howard’s End, scholar Herbert M Schneidau writes that E.M. Forster employs the “mystical method,” dramatizing “an ideology that we can call that of sacred space, or autochthony, that is the belief...
Emma Rose Miller - Blog Author
Emma Rose Miller
Emma authors blog content for the Grassic Gibbon Center. She is currently based in Tucson, Arizona, but will be relocating to Scotland to conduct research as a Bilinski Fellow in 2019. 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 has been teaching Sunset Song to college freshman at the University of Arizona for the last several years and enjoys watching new readers discover the clay fields of Blawearie and the plaintive cry of the peewits.