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On the whole popular fiction in Victorian Scotland is not overwhelmingly backward-looking; it is not obsessed by rural themes; it does not shrink from urbanisation or its problems; it is not idyllic in its approach; it does not treat the common people as comic or quaint. The second half of the nineteenth century is not a period of creative trauma or linguistic decline; it is one of the richest and most vital episodes in the history of Scottish popular culture.
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― Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland: Language, Fiction and the Press
― Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland: Language, Fiction and the Press
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It must have been soon after that when ways and means were much under discussion that Leslie and Ray came to see us in Wokingham. Leslie was working at high pressure on all sorts of subjects but although he was beginning to find his financial worries lessen he still seemed not to have found and in my opinion did not exactly know what he might be able to do best. I suggested that he wrote a great Scots drama or novel. With one voice Leslie and Ray said it would never pay. I protested that it woul
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― Another Song at Sunset: Jean Baxter, Scots poet and friend of Lewis Grassic Gibbon
― Another Song at Sunset: Jean Baxter, Scots poet and friend of Lewis Grassic Gibbon
