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Margot Robert Adamson

1898 -1979

POEMS BIBLIOGRAPHY CRITICISM

Margot Robert Adamson translated early Scots and English poetry from the Bannatyne and other manuscripts into modern English in A Treasury of Middle-English Verse (Dent, 1930).

In her own poetry she touches on Edinburgh and East Lothian, notably in A Northern Holiday (1928). She also wrote novels, and travel literature ‘for those who stay at home’.

Her work was included in Maurice Lindsay‘s Modern Scottish Poetry: An Anthology of the Scottish Renaissance 1920-1945, which helped to establish a number of the poets of the day as part of a flourishing poetic culture.

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Selected Bibliography

A Year of War and other poems, 1920

Up the Hill of Fairlight, Selwyn & Blount, 1925

A Northern Holiday. Poems, Cobden-Sanderson, 1928

Treasury of Middle English Verse, (Translator), Dent, 1930

The Forester’s Wife, Dent, 1931

One Fine Day I Was Walking Along, A Travel Book for those who Stay at Home, Dent, 1933

Chapter and Verse, The Moray Press,1937

The Personal Life of Marie-Antoinette, (Translator), G. Bell & Sons, 1940

A Rope of Sand, A novel about Mary Queen of Scots, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1965

Selected Biography & Criticism

Modern Scottish Women Poets Edited and Introduced by Dorothy McMillan and Michel Byrne, Canongate.

Further Information

http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/348567499.pdf

http://femalewarpoets.blogspot.com/2012/

 

 

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Publications by Margot Robert Adamson

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