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SCOTTISH HISTORY

SCOTTISH LITERARY TIMELINE

1901 James Leslie Mitchell ["Lewis Grassic Gibbon"] born, Auchterless Doom Castle, Munro From the Hills of Dreams, Sharp The House with the Green Shutters, Brown
1902 George Douglas Brown dies, London William McGonagall dies The Admirable Crichton, Barrie The Hound of the Baskervilles, Doyle The Sheep-Stealers, Jacob
1903 The Rose of Joy, Mary Findlater
1904 Peter Pan, Barrie
1905 George MacDonald dies, Bordigherra, Italy William Sharp dies, Sicily Poems, Jacob
1906 Thomas Douglas Macdonald ["Fionn MacColla"] born, Montrose Sir Nigel, Doyle The Vital Spark, Munro
1907 John Watson dies
1908 Crossrigs, Jane & Mary Findlater The Wind in the Willows, Grahame
1909 Robert Garioch Sutherland born, Edinburgh
1910 Norman MacCaig born, Edinburgh William Stables dies, Berkshire
1911 Sorley MacLean [Somhairle MacGill-Eain] born, Osgaig The Passionate Elopement, Mackenzie Penny Monypenny, Jane & Mary Findlater Peter and Wendy, Barrie
1912 Andrew Lang dies Carnival, Mackenzie The Lost World, Doyle
1913 The Poison Belt, Doyle Sinister Street, Mackenzie
1914 S.R. Crockett dies, Peebles Henrietta Keddies dies, Oxford Gillespie, Hay The New Road, Munro 1915 Sydney Goodsir Smith born, Wellington, New Zealand Songs of Angus, Jacob The Thirty-nine Steps, Buchan
1916 Greenmantle, Buchan
1918 (John) Maurice Lindsay born, Glasgow Tom Scott born, Glasgow Muriel Spark born, Edinburgh We Moderns, Edwin Muir
1919 Hamish Henderson born, Blairgowrie John Macdougall Hay dies, Elderslie
1920 Edwin Morgan born, Glasgow Open the Door!, Carswell Penny Plain, Buchan A Voyage to Arcturus, Lindsay
1921 George Mackay Brown born, Stromness
1923 Annals of the Five Senses, Grieve Beneath the Visiting Moon, Jane & Mary Findlater The Conquered, Mitchison
1925 George MacDonald Fraser born, Carlisle First Poem, Edwin Muir Sangschaw, Grieve
1926 A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, Grieve Grey Coast, Gunn Penny Wheep, Grieve
1927 Albyn, or Scotland and the Future, Grieve The Marionette, Edwin Muir Northern Lights and Other Poems, Jacob
1928 Iain Crichton Smith [Iain Mac a'Ghobhainn] born, Lewis Hanno, or the Future of Exploration, Mitchell 1929 Poet's Pub, Linklater White Maa's Saga, Linklater
1930 Arthur Conan Doyle dies Neil Munro dies, Craigendorran The Life of Robert Burns, Carswell Morning Tide, Gunn Strained Radiance, Mitchell To Circumjack Cencrastus, Grieve
1931 The Corn King and the Spring Queen, Mitchison First Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems, Grieve Hatter's Castle, Cronin Imagined Corners, Willa Muir Juan in America, Linklater
1932 Kenneth Grahame dies The Albannach, Macdonald Second Hymn to Lenin, Grieve Sunset Song, Mitchell
1933 Cloud Howe, Mitchell Mrs. Ritchie, Willa Muir Spartacus, Mitchell Sun Circle, Gunn
1934 Alasdair Gray born, Glasgow At the Sign of the Thistle, Grieve Butcher's Broom, Gunn Grey Granite, Mitchell Up the Noran Water, Cruickshank
1935 James Leslie Mitchell dies, Welwyn Garden City The Shipbuilders, Blake
1936 Mrs. Grundy in Scotland, Willa Muir Scott and Scotland, Edwin Muir
1937 J.M. Barrie dies
1940 John Buchan dies, Canada 17 Poems for 6d, MacLean & Sutherland
1941 James George Frazer dies The Monarch of the Glen, Mackenzie The Silver Darlings, Gunn Skail Wind, Sydney Goodsir Smith
1942 Douglas Dunn born, Inchinnan
1943 Annie S. Swan dies Dain do Eimhir agus Dain Eile, MacLean Far Cry, MacCaig Lucky Poet, Grieve The Narrow Place, Edwin Muir
1944 Tom Leonard born, Glasgow
1945 David Lindsay dies, Brighton And the Cock Crew, Macdonald
1946 Hellen Bannerman dies, Edinburgh Catherine Carswell dies Jane Findlater dies, Comrie Violet Jacob dies The Inward Eye, MacCaig
1947 Liz Lochhead born, Motherwell The Bull Calves, Mitchison Whisky Galore, Mackenzie
1948 Anna Buchan dies Elegies for the Dead in Cyranica, Henderson Under the Eildon Tree, Sydney Goodsir Smith
1949 Chuckis on a Cairn, Sutherland The Labyrinth, Edwin Muir
1952 Dies Irae, Morgan So Late into the Night, Sydney Goodsir Smith The Vision of Cathkin Braes, Morgan
1953 Seevin Poems o Maister Francis Villon, Scott
1954 Iain [M(enzies)] Banks born, Dunfermline Self, Brown
1955 Riding Lights, MacCaig
1959 Edwin Muir dies, Cambridge Robert Crawford born, Bellshill Figs and Thistles, Sydney Goodsir Smith Loaves and Fishes, Brown
1960 Burn is Aran, Iain Crichton Smith The Ballad of Peckham Rye, Spark
1961 George Blake dies The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Spark
1963 Mary Findlater dies, Comrie The Ship and Ither Poems, Scott
1965 Kynd Kittock's Land, Sydney Goodsir Smith
1966 The Company I've Kept, Grieve
1968 Consider the Lilies, Iain Crichton Smith
1969 The Business of Living, Lindsay Flashman, Fraser A Man in My Position, MacCaig Six Glasgow Poems, Leonard Terry Street, Dunn A Time to Keep, Brown
1970 Willa Muir dies
1971 Backwaters, Dunn
1972 Greenvoe, George Mackay Brown Memo for Spring, Lochhead
1973 Neil M. Gunn dies Compton Mackenzie dies, Edinburgh
1974 Eric Linklater dies, Aberdeen
1975 Helen Cruickshank dies, Edinburgh Thomas Douglas Macdonald dies, Edinburgh Sydney Goodsir Smith dies Two Men and a Blanket, Sutherland
1978 Christopher Murray Grieve dies, Biggar
1981 A.J. Cronin dies Robert Garioch Sutherland dies, Edinburgh Lanark, Gray Murdo, Iain Crichton Smith 1982 A Field Full of Folk, Iain Crichton Smith
1983 Unlikely Stories, Mostly, Gray
1984 Janine, Gray Intimate Voices, Leonard The Wasp Factory, Banks
1985 Secret Villages, Dunn
1987 Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Lochhead
1988 Northlight, Dunn
1990 A Scottish Assembly, Crawford Something Leather, Gray
1992 Devolving English Literature, Crawford Poor Things, Gray
1996 George Mackay Brown dies, Kirkwall Norman MacCaig dies, Edinburgh

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