by Emma Rose Miller | Aug 24, 2019 | Uncategorised
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...
by Emma Rose Miller | Jul 23, 2019 | Uncategorised
A child’s drawing, most likely Rhea’s, in Mitchell’s notebook. Mitchell Literary Estate, NLS. Life, we might say, is universally preoccupied with creating. We reproduce, we build, we write, we paint, we grow. As a species, we have created systems of...
by Emma Rose Miller | Jul 19, 2019 | Uncategorised
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...
by Emma Rose Miller | Jun 14, 2019 | Uncategorised
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...
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...
