Scottish Women Writers

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Joanna Baillie, Carol Ann Duffy, Lady Anne Barnard, Annie Shepherd Swan, Naomi Mitchison, Muriel Spark, Janice Hally, Muriel Gray, Elizabeth Haldane, Sheena Blackhall, Agnes and Margaret Smith, Ann Marie Di Mambro, Mona Caird, Eliza Rennie, Rosaline Masson, Ali Smith, Jackie Kay, Wendy Wood, Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Joan Ure, Lucy Bethia Walford, Val McDermid, A. L. Kennedy, Helen Adam, Anne Ross Cousin, Alison Cockburn, Rhona Cameron, Violet Tweedale, D. E. Stevenson, Kathleen Jamie, Anne Bannerman, Janice Galloway, O. Douglas, Zo Strachan, Rona Munro, Janet Hamilton, Elizabeth Melville, Margaret Elphinstone, Shena Mackay, Jean Adam, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Margaret Moyes Black, Marjorie Fleming, Louise Welsh, Alex Gray, Helen Macfarlane, Ena Lamont Stewart, Violet Jacob, Mary Oxlie, Eve Blantyre Simpson, Agnes Owens, Eglantine Wallace, Idilia Dubb, Lucy Clementina Davies, Margaret Tait, Liz Lochhead, Sharon McPherson, Isabel Pagan, Jean Elliot, Jessie Kesson, Betool Khedairi, Nan Shepherd, Marilyn Gillies Carr, Rachel Annand Taylor, Helen Douglas Irvine, Laura Hird, Meg Bateman, Muriel Stuart, Ellen Galford, Agnes Grainger Stewart, Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier, Meta Orred, Christian Milne. Excerpt: Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May 2009. She is the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly bisexual person to hold the position. Her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gen...