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ASL is an educational charity, promoting the reading, writing, teaching and study of Scotland's literature and languages, past and present.

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What Scotsman was caught up in a civil war before the age of twenty? Wrote a book that became the inspiration for an Oscar-winning film? Met a runaway teenager in Paris and married her against the wishes of his family? Lost his ranch to raiding Apaches?

Buckle up – it’s going to be a long, wild #Scottish #literature 🧵 …

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Went into Parliament as a Liberal & came out as a Socialist? Assaulted a policeman in defence of free speech & was sent to prison? Travelled in disguise in 🇲🇦 Morocco trying to reach a forbidden city?

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Helped to found both the UK Labour Party & the Scottish National Party? Was a ferocious critic of imperialism, racism & cruelty to any human or animal? Bought his favourite horse—an Argentine mustang—from the Glasgow Tramway Company and rode it for twenty years?

3/18

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Wrote nearly thirty books, including 200 short stories & sketches? Knew nearly all the great writers & artists of his day? Had a funeral attended by the President of a republic & the two most famous horses in the world?

4/18

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Is buried in a grave beside his wife on a small lake-island not far from Glasgow? Has, surprisingly, been almost totally ignored, even almost forgotten, as a personality & politician & writer by recent generations?

5/18

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Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852–1936)—traveller, adventurer, politician, Scottish laird, American rancher, superb horseman, writer of essays, polemic, history, biography, & fiction—was born , 24 May.

🎨 “Don Roberto”, Sir John Lavery (1901)

6/18

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/05/a-world-of-story-rediscovered-r-b-cunninghame-graham-scotlands-forgotten-writer/

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“An impenitent & unashamed dandy”—from Joseph Conrad’s Letters to R.B. Cunninghame Graham, ed. C.T. Watts (Cambridge University Press, 1969), quoting George Bernard Shaw

7/18

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“You ought, Mr Graham, to be the first president of a British Republic.” “I ought, madam, if I had my rights,” he answered sardonically, “to be the king of this country. And what a three weeks that would be!”
—Ford Madox Ford, Return to Yesterday

🎨 “Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham”, Sir John Lavery (1893)

8/18

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Poor Things, Rich Adaptation? Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel & Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2023 film
28 May, 6–7:30pm CEST (5–6:30 BST)
Free online

Dietmar Böhnke will assess what is arguably the highest-profile of a novel since TRAINSPOTTING (1996) – & will touch on Gray’s works & reputation more generally, including a script he wrote for in 1993…

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https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/

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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born #OTD, 22 May, at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh – a 🎂 🧵

Bridget Kendall on BBC Sounds explores the life & work of the doctor & literary superstar who changed #CrimeFiction forever

1/11

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054419v

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Conan Doyle “scrawled lists, considering various combinations of given names and surnames, including Sherrington Hope”

—Michael Sims investigates the creation of the Great Detective – & why today is & not

2/11

https://lithub.com/how-sherlock-holmes-got-his-name/

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According to the Guinness Book of Records, Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen more than any other literary character. Olivia Rutigliano ranks the 100 best, worst, & strangest screen portrayals of the great detective…

3/11

https://crimereads.com/100-sherlock-holmes-ranked/

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“Holmes’s stories […] have a surprisingly grounded view of crime, & one that arguably fits better into the hardboiled tradition of Hammett & Chandler than the cozy tradition of Christie.”

—Alexis Hall on Sherlock Holmes as noir icon

4/11

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #CrimeFiction #Noir

https://crimereads.com/sherlock-holmes-hardboiled-detective/

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Doyle didn’t just write #CrimeFiction … Alan Brown looks at Arthur Conan Doyle’s “vain, volatile, & brilliant” Scottish adventurer-scientist-explorer & dinosaur hunter Professor George Edward Challenger

5/11

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #sciencefiction

https://reactormag.com/dinosaurs-in-the-amazon-the-lost-world-by-arthur-conan-doyle/

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After THE LOST WORLD, Challenger’s other adventures include the novels THE POISON BELT and THE LAND OF MIST, & the short stories “The World Screamed” & “The Disintegration Machine”. Alan Brown digs deeper into Doyle’s #sciencefiction

6/11

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury

https://reactormag.com/the-further-adventures-of-professor-challenger-by-arthur-conan-doyle/

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(Conan Doyle personally preferred Professor Challenger over Sherlock Holmes – even dressing up as the Professor for a photograph of Challenger’s Amazonian expedition)

7/11

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #sciencefiction

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/29/the-photo-is-the-clue-arthur-conan-doyles-love-for-his-lost-world-hero

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When Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, “20,000 people cancelled their subscriptions to the Strand”. Public pressure – & a huge fee – brought Holmes back from the dead; did this fictional immortality influence Doyle’s spiritualism?

8/11

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #spiritualism

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n13/leah-price/one-chapter-more

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In 1912, “Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the world’s most celebrated fictional detective, had turned detective himself in an actual murder case – in the process liberating a man who had spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.”

9/11

https://crimereads.com/arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-scottish-dreyfus-affair/

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In March 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle put together a list of his own top 12 Sherlock Holmes stories, sealed it in an envelope, & left it with the editor of the Strand magazine…

10/11

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #20thcentury #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #CrimeFiction

https://lithub.com/the-12-best-sherlock-holmes-stories-according-to-arthur-conan-doyle/

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Currently available to listen to on BBC Sounds: “The Captain of the Polestar”, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

As a Dundee whaling ship becomes trapped in the Arctic, strange cries sound across the ice at night & a figure is glimpsed on the floes…

11/11

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cb1ts

scotlit, to ShareYourMusic
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“THE DYNAMITER is a hugely inventive & brilliant book, at once a political thriller, a blackly comic satire, & a female adventure”

Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne married , 19 May, 1880. In this article, Prof Penny Fielding explores the dangerous between RLS & his wife: granting female agency on the page & in life

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https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a-dangerous-collaboration/

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@bookstodon You can download a free ebook of THE DYNAMITER by Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson via @gutenberg_org

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #WomenWriters #humour

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/647

scotlit, to martialartsmemes
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CFP: ‘We Are Amused’: Victorian Humour & the Digital
7–8 Nov, Université Caen Normandie

Exploring intersections between #19thcentury #humour & the digital, & investigating the migration of jokes, squibs, spoofs & parodies, verbal & visual, from the pages of #Victorian comic periodicals to 21st-century screens

Submission deadline: 30 June

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https://eribia.unicaen.fr/evenement/cfp-we-are-amused-victorian-humour-and-the-digital/

scotlit, to literature
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—“Mr. Johnson, (said I) I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.”
—“That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.”

May 16 is Biographers Day – marking the 1st meeting of James Boswell & Samuel Johnson in 1763

#Scottish #literature #biography #SamuelJohnson #JamesBoswell #18thCentury
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https://lithub.com/of-course-samuel-johnson-met-james-boswell-in-a-bookstore/

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CFP: Voices from the Edge in Scottish Literature, Theatre, & Film

21–22 Nov, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, France

Exploring #identity constructs, developments & transgressions within #Scottish #literature, #theatre, & #film

Guest speaker: Scottish actor & playwright Matthew Zajac, who will be also performing his critically acclaimed play THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS – the first performance of this play in France

Deadline for submissions: 1 Aug

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http://www.llseti.univ-smb.fr/web/llseti/320-actualites-du-laboratoire.php?item=2696

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