Jenni Calder was born in Chicago, educated in the United States and England, and has lived in or near Edinburgh since 1971. After several years of part-time teaching and freelance writing, including three years in Kenya, she worked at the National Museums of Scotland from 1978 to 2001 successively as education officer, Head of Publications, script editor for the Museum of Scotland, and latterly as Head of Museum of Scotland International. In the latter capacity her main interest was in emigration and the Scottish diaspora. She has written and lectured widely on Scottish, English and American literary and historical subjects, and writes fiction and poetry as Jenni Daiches.
12 كتب إلكترونية بواسطة Jenni Calder
Jenni Calder: Scots in Canada
In Canada there are nearly as many descendants of Scots as there are people living in Scotland; almost 5 million Canadians ticked the ‘Scottish origin’ box in the most recent Canadian Census. Many Sc …
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Jenni Calder: Scots in the USA
The map of the United States is peppered with Scottish place-names and America’s telephone directories are filled with surnames illustrating Scottish ancestry. Increasingly, Americans of Scottish ext …
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Jenni Calder: Lost in the Backwoods
How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its emigre experience with wilderness and the extreme? Drawing on journals, …
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Jenni Calder: Lost in the Backwoods
How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its emigre experience with wilderness and the extreme? Drawing on journals, …
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Jenni Calder & Robert Louis Stevenson: Stevenson: Everyman’s Poetry
Poems for children, ballards for his friends in the South Seas, poetic tales of Scotland – a selection of the poetry Stevenson wrote all his life. …
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Jenni Calder: Essence of Edinburgh
‘This book is a personal journey – an eccentric odyssey – exploring aspects of past and present, people and places. It is an evocation rather than a history.’ A city of fascinating unpredictability i …
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Jenni Calder: Frontier Scots
Today there are up to 25 million Americans who claim to have Scottish heritage. Many of these people are the descendants of Scots who journeyed to America in the 19th Century, and became true pioneer …
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Zeno Vernyik: Arthur Koestler’s Fiction and the Genre of the Novel
Featuring a selection of brand new essays by a group of accomplished scholars, Arthur Koestlers Fiction and the Genre of the Novel covers all of Koestlers novels published in his lifetime, the first …
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William Mylne: Travels in the Colonies in 1773–1775 Described in the Letters of William Mylne
Travels in the Colonies in 1773–1775 Described in the Letters of William Mylne contains a narrative of the two years that Scottish architect and engineer William Mylne spent in the American colonies. …
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Tales of the South Seas
Driven to the South Seas by ill health, Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the ‘stirabout of epochs and races, barbarisms and civilisations, virtues and crimes’. Setting …
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Robert Louis Stevenson: The Scottish Novels
Introduced by Jenni Calder and Roderick Watson.Kidnapped – Catriona – The Master of Ballantrae – Weir of Hermiston These four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson’s imaginative and b …
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Island Landfalls
Selected and introduced by Jenni Calder.Ill health drove Robert Louis Stevenson from Scotland; the urge for new and adventurous places drew him to the Pacific. There were those at home who would have …
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