by Emma Rose Miller | May 25, 2019 | Uncategorised
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...
by Emma Rose Miller | May 5, 2019 | Uncategorised
A Scots Quair Polygon HB 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 that spiritual powers, which...
by Emma Rose Miller | Apr 24, 2019 | Uncategorised
* All quotes are from Smeddum: A Lewis Grassic Gibbon Anthology (2001) edited by Valentina Bold. Calends of Cairo (1931), The Grassic Gibbon Center; The Mitchell Estate As detailed in a previous post, the short story “For Ten’s Sake” was J. Leslie Mitchell’s first...
by Nigel Simpson | Apr 10, 2019 | Grassic Gibbon, Uncategorised
The First Kernel: Despair, Hope and Success Written by: Emma Rose Miller On the third of April 1928, at the age of twenty-seven, J. Leslie Mitchell received a momentous letter from the editor of the Cornhill Magazine. After more than a year of rejections, Huxley’s...
by Emma Rose Miller | Mar 8, 2019 | Uncategorised
The reopening of the Grassic Gibbon Center provides us with the chance to meditate on the meaning of seasons, and spring especially, for Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Gibbon wrote often of the importance of seasonal or meteorological cycles. In his masterpiece Sunset Song,...
by Nigel Simpson | Feb 26, 2019 | Uncategorised
Springtime in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Mearns: Re-openings and Awakenings The month of March traditionally marks the end of long winter hibernation and a return to the busy activities of outdoor life. Despite freezing rains and late snow storms, the meteorological (or...
