Tag "Susan Ferrier"

Scotland's literary heroines edge back into the light

‘I am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever and of finding my own story and my own people all forestalled.’  Jane Austen, 30 April 1811. Its strange to think of Jane Austen doing a disservice to women writers but it seems that the sheer weight of her legacy has been such that some of her female contemporaries – equally of not more successful in their day