Description: By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which Scottish women lived and wrote.
Brief description: Glenda Norquay is Professor of Scottish Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Her books include a monograph on Robert Louis Stevenson and Theories of Reading, the edited collection Across the Margins (with Gerry Smyth), and a number of essays and articles on Scottish women writers and on Stevenson. She edited The Collected Works of Lorna Moon, and two collections of women's suffrage fiction and is currently editing St Ives for the New Edinburgh Edition of Stevenson.
Review Quotes: This is a pleasant, readable collection of essays with some lively and surprising perceptions.--Dorothy McMillan, University of Glasgow "Association for Scottish Literary Studies"