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  1. They returned to Scotland where Gabriela won the admiration of her husband’s society friends – Wilde, Yeats, Engels, & others – with her “slight accent, neither French nor Spanish, but most attractive and charming, as foreign accents sometimes can be, especially with ladies.”

    11/18

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #OscarWilde #WBYeats #Engels

  2. Helped found both the Scottish Labour Party AND the SNP? Was a ferocious critic of imperialism, racism & cruelty to any human or animal? Bought his favourite horse – an Argentine mustang – from the Glasgow Tramway Company and rode it for twenty years?

    3/18

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #politics #LabourParty #ScottishLabour #SNP

  3. In 1912, “Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the world’s most celebrated fictional detective, had turned detective himself in an actual murder case – in the process liberating a man who had spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit”

    10/

    crimereads.com/arthur-conan-do

    #Scottish #literature #Edwardian #Glasgow #Crimewriting #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #truecrime

  4. Although Barrie is remembered today almost exclusively for PETER PAN, he was a prominent 19th-century novelist & the most successful British playwright of the early 20th century.

    GATEWAY TO THE MODERN, edited by Valentina Bold & Andrew Nash, explores Barrie’s multifarious career

    @litstudies

    7/10

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #19thcentury #Victorian #20thcentury #Edwardian #PeterPan #drama #cinema #cinemahistory

  5. Although Barrie is remembered today almost exclusively for PETER PAN, he was a prominent 19th-century novelist & the most successful British playwright of the early 20th century.

    GATEWAY TO THE MODERN, edited by Valentina Bold & Andrew Nash, explores Barrie’s multifarious career

    @litstudies

    7/10

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #19thcentury #Victorian #20thcentury #Edwardian #PeterPan #drama #cinema #cinemahistory

  6. Although Barrie is remembered today almost exclusively for PETER PAN, he was a prominent 19th-century novelist & the most successful British playwright of the early 20th century.

    GATEWAY TO THE MODERN, edited by Valentina Bold & Andrew Nash, explores Barrie’s multifarious career

    @litstudies

    7/10

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #19thcentury #Victorian #20thcentury #Edwardian #PeterPan #drama #cinema #cinemahistory

  7. Although Barrie is remembered today almost exclusively for PETER PAN, he was a prominent 19th-century novelist & the most successful British playwright of the early 20th century.

    GATEWAY TO THE MODERN, edited by Valentina Bold & Andrew Nash, explores Barrie’s multifarious career

    @litstudies

    7/10

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #19thcentury #Victorian #20thcentury #Edwardian #PeterPan #drama #cinema #cinemahistory

  8. Although Barrie is remembered today almost exclusively for PETER PAN, he was a prominent 19th-century novelist & the most successful British playwright of the early 20th century.

    GATEWAY TO THE MODERN, edited by Valentina Bold & Andrew Nash, explores Barrie’s multifarious career

    @litstudies

    7/10

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #19thcentury #Victorian #20thcentury #Edwardian #PeterPan #drama #cinema #cinemahistory

  9. They returned to Scotland where Gabriela won the admiration of her husband’s society friends – Wilde, Yeats, Engels, & others – with her “slight accent, neither French nor Spanish, but most attractive and charming, as foreign accents sometimes can be, especially with ladies.”

    11/18

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #OscarWilde #Yeats #WBYeats #Engels #FredrichEngels