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Category: <span>women writers</span>

Category: women writers

'Celtic', books for boys, fairy tales, myth and legend, poetry, women writers

Jessie Saxby (1842-1940) – Shetland’s first children’s writer

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In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8th, our blog this week is the first in a series on the unmarked contributions of early women writers to the history of Scottish children’s literature. Today it’s the turn of the prolific Jessie Margaret Edmonston Saxby (1842-1940) who transposed the Victorian …

'Celtic', ballads, fairy tales, folktales - Scottish, poetry, Scotland, Scots, women writers

Helen Douglas Adam (1909-93), child-poet of the pixie-pool

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Meet Helen Douglas Adam  –  the ‘infant poetess’ from Glasgow whose uncanny ballad poetry would find a home in the radical San Francisco artistic scene…                        ♦ ‘A little wee elf in coat of green / Dwelt in a tree so gray, / In the tiniest house that ever …

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