Douglas Gifford & Dorothy McMillan 
History of Scottish Women’s Writing [PDF ebook] 

This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women’s writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers – such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead – as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing – such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.