Margot Robert Adamson
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’.
Publications about Margot Robert Adamson.
Modern Scottish Women Poets Edited and Introduced by Dorothy McMillan and Michel Byrne, Canongate.
Publications by Margot Robert Adamson
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
Useful Links:
http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/348567499.pdf
http://femalewarpoets.blogspot.com/2012/