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Currently available on BBC Sounds: A WORKING MOTHER, by Agnes Owens
Ten years after WW2, our unreliable narrator Betty – arch, witty, clever – is married with children & feels trapped. While her husband, Adam, drinks and complains, Betty plots her escape…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030x96
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters #audiobooks
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“Though her characters struggle, their hardship does not sanctify them. Theirs is not an ennobling suffering. ‘I don’t write about people that are nice people,’ Owens said. ‘They’ve got to be sinners, with a wee touch of goodness here and there, you know.’”
Roxani Krystalli on Agnes Owens, in GUTTER Magazine
https://www.guttermag.co.uk/reviews/a-wee-touch-of-goodness
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters
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“In contemporary reviews she was likened to Muriel Spark and Beryl Bainbridge: her books thrive on the friction between comedy and sadness.”
—John Self on the working-class genius of Agnes Owens (1926–2014)
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-working-class-genius-of-agnes-owens
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters
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Starting 31 Aug, BBC Radio 4: A WORKING MOTHER, by Agnes Owens (1926–2014)
Ten years after WW2, our unreliable narrator Betty – arch, witty, clever – is married with children & feels trapped. While her husband, Adam, drinks and complains, Betty flirts with their best friend Brendan, tries to avoid the roving hands of her new employer, & plots her escape…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030x97
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters #audiobooks
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Acknowledging Agnes Owens: a celebration of her writing & legacy
24 September, Òran Mór, Glasgow – freeLaunch event for the Byres Road Book Festival, in collaboration with the Agnes Owens Archive – with Dani Garavelli, Kirstin Innes, William Letford, & Chitra Ramaswamy
#Scottish #literature #AgnesOwens #20thcentury #womenwriters #Glasgow
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“In A WORKING MOTHER, Owens transforms difficulties from her own life into a glorious work of art in which nothing is quite what it seems”
—Dani Garivelli reviews all Agnes Owens’ books reissued so far
7/7
https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/26076770.author-agnes-owens-deadpan-gothic-style-entirely/
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters
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To celebrate her centenary, Polygon is publishing new editions of Agnes Owens’ books with introductions from contemporary Scottish writers. 4 are released this month: A Working Mother; For the Love of Willie; Like Birds in the Wilderness; & Gentlemen of the West
6/7
https://birlinn.co.uk/contributor/agnes-owens/
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters
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Agnes’ writing was championed by Kelman and Gray but she remained mysteriously un-celebrated. “One publisher said people don’t want that kind of writing… about poor people”
Agnes Owens, through objects from the Glasgow Womens’ Library Collections
5/7
https://womenslibrary.org.uk/exhibition/agnes-owens/
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“I’m writing about strange people, people on the edge, people that society doesn’t like much”: the precariat in the work of Agnes Owens
—Ronald Paul, Moderna Språk 112/2, 2018
4/7
https://publicera.kb.se/mosp/article/view/7675/6520
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters
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“I don’t write about people that are nice people. They’ve got to be sinners, with a wee touch of goodness here and there, you know”
—Jane Gray: ‘Giving “people like that” a voice: a conversation with Agnes Owens (1926–2014)’
3/7
https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises/89?lang=en
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“From time to time art publicists in London notice things are being achieved in Scotland… On one of these occasions an interviewer asked Agnes what made her write that story; she answered, ‘Spite’”
—Alasdair Gray, “Honest Poverty”: Agnes Owens at 70
2/7
https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/2009/10/honest-poverty-and-agnes-owens-at-70/
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters
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Agnes Owens: Out of the Margins
Agnes Owens (1926–2014) was born 100 years ago #OTD, 24 May. This short film presents Owens as a writer shaped by working-class life, whose fiction exposed power, resisted sentimentality, & centred overlooked voices.
A 🎂🧵
1/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkYRPGGto2Q
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters
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To celebrate her centenary, Birlinn is publishing new editions of Agnes Owens’ books with introductions from contemporary Scottish writers. Four are released this month: A Working Mother; For the Love of Willie; Like Birds in the Wilderness; & Gentlemen of the West
https://birlinn.co.uk/contributor/agnes-owens/
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass
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The Agnes Owens Archive – Centenary Talk
24 May, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow – freeOn the 100th birthday of Scottish writer Agnes Owens, Kelvingrove are hosting SGSAH-funded PhD researcher, Laura MacDonald, who has been supporting the development of the new Agnes Owens Archive, housed at the Alasdair Gray Archive
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-agnes-owens-archive-centenary-talk
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #AgnesOwens #workingclass
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To celebrate her century year, Polygon is publishing new editions of Agnes Owens’ books with specially commissioned introductions from contemporary Scottish writers. Four are released this month – including A Working Mother, published yesterday
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/a-working-mother/
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #workingclass #AgnesOwens
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“She’s writing stories about smaller areas in the West Coast, that are not a major city – urban, rural, borderland kind of spaces, and the particular desperations of those lives”
—Novelist Kirstin Innes & artist Hayley-Jane Dawson on the life & work of Agnes Owens
https://www.greatergovanhill.com/latest/in-conversationon-writing-class-scots-and-agnes-owens
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #workingclass #AgnesOwens
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Agnes Owens in the archives
23 April, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free2026 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Agnes Owens, described by Alasdair Gray in 2003 as “the most unfairly neglected of all living Scottish authors.”
Explore the collections left behind by Owens, & learn how her archives are being used to reappraise her legacy & secure her status as a major Scottish literary figure.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agnes-owens-in-the-archives-tickets-1983616132249
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Agnes Owens in the archives
23 April, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketed2026 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Agnes Owens (1926–2014), described by Alasdair Gray in 2003 as "the most unfairly neglected of all living Scottish authors".
Explore how her archives are being used to reappraise her legacy & secure her status as a major Scottish literary figure.
https://www.nls.uk/whats-on/agnes-owens-in-the-archives/
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #AgnesOwens #workingclass #20thcentury #archives
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2026 is Agnes Owens’ centenary year, & Polygon will publish 7 new editions of her novels & short stories in collaboration with the Agnes Owens Archive – also launching this year. These new editions will be introduced by some of Scotland’s finest contemporary writers.
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #workingclass #workingclasswriters #AgnesOwens