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Marion Lochhead Materials on Other Scottish Authors

The Marion Lochhead Papers (Coll-809) contain critical and biographical materials on a number of Scottish authors, with particular emphasis on the 19th century.

Authors

Lady Grisell Baillie

  • 'A Domestic Heroine, Poor Girl, Rich Lady: Grizell Baillie', TS draft for The Scots Household in the Eighteenth Century (Gen 2156/1, Folder 3)

J. J. Bell

  • His childhood memories discussed in chapter 18 of TS of Their First Ten Years (Gen 2156/1, Folder 6)

John Buchan

  • His childhood discussed in chapter 18 of TS of Their First Ten Years (Gen 2156/1, Folder 6)

John Francis Campbell

  • 'Four Historians of the Other Country', TS chapter for The Other Country: Legends and Fairy Tales of Scotland (Gen 2156/2, Folder 5)

Robert Chambers

  • 'Four Historians of the Other Country', TS chapter for The Other Country: Legends and Fairy Tales of Scotland (Gen 2156/2, Folder 5)

O. Douglas (Anna Buchan)

  • Her childhood memories discussed in chapter 18 of TS of Their First Ten Years (Gen 2156/1, Folder 6)

Robert Fergusson

  • 'Robert Ferguson', TS draft for The Scots Household in the Eighteenth Century (Gen 2156/1, Folder 3)

Anne Macvicar Grant of Laggan

  • 'Mrs. Grant of Laggan', TS draft for The Scots Household in the Eighteenth Century (Gen 2156/1, Folder 3)

James Hogg

  • 'Four Historians of the Other Country', TS chapter for The Other Country: Legends and Fairy Tales of Scotland (Gen 2156/2, Folder 5)
  • ‘James Hogg’, TS of article published in Blackwood’s Magazine, 303 (1968) (Gen 2156/1, Folder 5)

Grace Kennedy

  • Her Anna Ross discussed in chapter 4 of TS of Their First Ten Years (Gen 2156/1, Folder 6)

Robert Kirk

  • 'Four Historians of the Other Country', TS chapter for The Other Country: Legends and Fairy Tales of Scotland (Gen 2156/2, Folder 5)
  • 'The Other People', TS draft for The Scots Household in the Eighteenth Century (Gen 2156/1, Folder 3)

John Gibson Lockhart

  • TS of John Gibson Lockhart (John Murray, 1954) (Gen 2156/3)
  • ‘John Gibson Lockhart: A Self-Portrait’, TS of radio-play (Gen 2156/1, Folder 5)

George MacDonald

  • Discussed in chapters 1-6 of proof of The Renaissance of Wonder in Children's Literature (Gen 2156/1, Folder 7)

Edwin Muir

  • His childhood memories discussed in chapter 18 of TS of Their First Ten Years (Gen 2156/1, Folder 6)

Neil Munro

  • ‘Neil Munro’, TS of article or radio talk (Gen 2156/1, Folder 2)

Margaret Oliphant

  • Unpublished TS monograph on Oliphant's life and works (Gen 2156/1, Folder 1)
  • ‘Margaret Oliphant’, TS of article for Blackwood's Magazine, 302 (1967) (Gen 2156/1, Folder 1)
  • ‘Mrs. Oliphant on The Opium Eater, MAGA, December 1877’, TS notes for article 'Thomas de Quincey' published in Blackwood's Magazine, 303 (1968) (Gen 2156/1, Folder 2)
  • Her Miss Marjoribanks discussed in chapter 1 of TS of The Victorian Household (Gen 2156/1, Folder 4)

Sir Walter Scott

  • TS of Portrait of the Scott Country (Robert Hale, 1968)

Catherine Sinclair

  • Her Holiday House discussed in chapter 4 of TS of Their First Ten Years (Gen 2156/1, Folder 6)

Robert Louis Stevenson

  • His childhood memories discussed in chapter 6 of TS of Their First Ten Years (Gen 2156/1, Folder 6)

Ann Fraser Tytler

  • Her Leila discussed in chapter 4 of TS of Their First Ten Years (Gen 2156/1, Folder 6)

Other Materials

There are further studies of Edinburgh literary life in the 19th century among materials for an unpublished history of the city in Gen 2156/2, Folders 3-4.

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