Women authors, Scottish
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
Archive of illustrators Alison Douglas Tod and Richard Tod
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2029
Scope and Contents
This is an extensive archive of material relating to the children's stories and illustrations produced by this Newport-on-Tay father and daughter duo: Richard, who was active between 1901 and 1917 and who worked both under his own name and as "Uncle Jack", and Alison, who appears to have been busy in the 1940s. The collection comprises draft manuscripts and typescripts, final typescript versions, preliminary sketches on paper and on tracing paper, finished artwork, and a small amount of...
Dates:
c 1900-1940s
Carmichael Stopes Family Archive
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2907
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of around 30 drawings and paintings created by members of the Carmichael Stopes family, compiled by birth control pioneer and sexologist Marie Stopes (1880-1958). The collection is housed in a large portfolio on which she has written "M C Stopes – art", and she has added explanatory annotations to many of the works. The archive includes family portraits, a few prints, landscapes, and architectural and botanical drawings.Below is a list of some of the most...
Dates:
1786-1886
Diaries of Janet Beaton
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2049
Content Description
This collection consists of the diaries written by Janet Beaton between 1934 and 1949, and from 1962 until her death in 2018. The early diaries relate to her experience of wartime (for example, her 1939 diary includes her eye-witness account of a "Humbie Heinkel" over East Lothian. This was the first German aircraft to be brought down over mainland Britain during the Second World War.), and to her days at the University of Edinburgh. Subsequent diaries relate to her family, her many travels...
Dates:
1934-2018
Esther Inglis, "A Treatise of Preparation to the Holy Supper and of our only Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ", 1608 (dated)
Item
Identifier: La.III.75
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a prose religious treatise, copied by Esther Inglis as a gift for Sir David Murray of Gorthy (1567-1629), her friend and companion to the Prince Henry. Sir David Murray was the recipient of three of Inglis’ manuscripts, with this being the first; the others are a Book of Psalms prepared in 1612 (now Wormsley Library, Oxfordshire, BM 1851), and a miniature illuminated manuscript of the "Quatrains of Guy du Faur" (now British Library, MS Harley 4324). The text itself...
Dates:
1608 (dated)
Esther Inglis, "Les Quatrains du Sieur de Pybrac", 1607 (dated)
Item
Identifier: La.III.439
Scope and Contents
This manuscript contains the popular religious and moral Quatrains written by Guy du Faur, Seigneur de Pybrac. This calligraphic copy of the Quatrains was produced by Esther Inglis as a gift for the New Year ("pour ses estrennes"), offered to Robert Cecil (1563-1612), 1st Earl of Salisbury. It is one of Esther Inglis’ floral, illuminated manuscripts, which she produces between 1600 and 1608. Within her corpus of...
Dates:
1607 (dated)
Esther Inglis, "Livret traittant de la grandeur de Dieu et de la cognoissance qu’on peut avoir de luy par ses oeuvres", 1592
Item
Identifier: La.III.440
Scope and Contents
This manuscript is a decorative copy of Pierre Du Val’s De la grandeur de Dieu et de la cognoissance qu’on peut avoir de luy par ses oeuvres, first published at Paris in 1553. Written by Esther Inglis in 1592, when she was around 22 years old, it forms part of a group of manuscripts produced between 1586 and 1592 which show her early experiments calligraphy and print imitation. The other manuscripts in this group are now British Library, MS Sloane 987 (...
Dates:
1592
File containing correspondence and agreements relating to Enigma Variations, 1988-2002
File — Box CLX-A-380: Series Coll-1657/7
Identifier: Coll-1657/7/2/3
Scope and Contents
1 folder: Correspondence, typescript, with Mainstream Publishing, Robert Hale Ltd., and others, concerning the publication of Enigma Variations and other matters arising, November 1988 to September 1999 and undated; and, author's questionnaire from Mainstream, and Agreement with Mainstream in 1989, and with RNIB (Talking Books), 1990. Also includes documents about early royalty payments, 2002.
Dates:
1988-2002
File containing correspondence concerning a second edition of Enigma Variations, along with text and drafts of a 2000 Postscript, 1991-2000
File — Box CLX-A-380: Series Coll-1657/7
Identifier: Coll-1657/7/2/7
Scope and Contents
1 folder: Correspondence 1991-2001 concerning a second edition of Enigma Variations, along with text and drafts of a 2000 Postscript.
Dates:
1991-2000
File containing correspondence received in response to the publication of Enigma Variations, August 1989 - June 1990
File — Box CLX-A-380: Series Coll-1657/7
Identifier: Coll-1657/7/2/4
Scope and Contents
1 folder: Correspondence received in response to the publication of Enigma Variations - August 1989 to June 1990.
Dates:
August 1989 - June 1990
File containing correspondence received in response to the publication of Enigma Variations, July 1990 - September 1991
File — Box CLX-A-380: Series Coll-1657/7
Identifier: Coll-1657/7/2/5
Scope and Contents
1 folder: Correspondence received in response to the publication of Enigma Variations - July 1990 to September 1991.
Dates:
July 1990 - September 1991