A Thistle by any Other Name? The Authorial Personas of J. Leslie Mitchell and Lewis Grassic Gibbon
First Editions, Grassic Gibbon Centre What’s in a name? For writers, names can hold so much meaning. An author must consider how they want to be publicly and professionally known to their readers. They must consider how the author name will look on a book cover and...
The Problem with Power: Reading Authoritarian Revolution in “The Road”
Close, No. 80 High Street, from Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow by Thomas Annan (1868/71), Scottish National Portrait Gallery In the Thirteenth Disciple, Malcolm Maudsley asks “What are we going to do about it? What’s our job to help its beginning again in this...
Introducing Jane Morris
https://www.grassicgibbon.com/lewis-grassic-gibbon/literary-lights-2018/ Please click on the above link to access information about the Grassic Gibbon Centre's Literary Lights Competition and to read Jane Morris' winning short story "Nine Tails". In July of 2019, the...
Seeking ‘The Adventure’: The Quest and J. Leslie Mitchell’s Thirteenth Disciple
The death of James Leslie Mitchell in his early thirties was a major loss to Scottish literature. Hugh MacDiarmid in the the introduction to Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon by Ian S. Munro, vii. Grave at St. Ternan’s Church, Arbuthnott On February 7, 1935, when...
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.