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Willa Muir
1890 - 1970
Willa Muir
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Primary

Imagined Corners (1931)

Mrs Ritchie (1933)

Women: An Inquiry (Hogarth Press: 1925)

Living with Ballads (Hogarth Press: 1965)

Belonging (1968) (Willa Muir’s memoir of Edwin Muir)

“Elizabeth” and “A Portrait of Emily Stobo”, Chapman 71 (1992-93)

“Clock-a-doodle-do”, M. Burgess ed., The Other Voice (1987)

Translation and recent editions

The Trial (Franz Kafka) trans Willa Muir and Edwin Muir, Everyman’s Library, London 1992

America (Franz Kafka) trans Willa Muir and Edwin Muir, Penguin Classics, New York 1970

Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) trans Willa Muir and Edwin Muir, Penguin, London 1990

The Anarchist (Hermann Broch) trans Willa Muir and Edwin Muir, Penguin Modern Classics, London, 2000

The Realist (Hermann Broch) trans Willa Muir and Edwin Muir, Penguin Modern Classics, London 2000

Imagined Selves, Willa Muir – Kirsty Allen ed - Canongate Classics, Edinburgh 1996

Secondary

Patricia R. Mudge, “A Quorum of Willas”,

Catriona Soukup, “Willa in Wartime”,

Lumir Soukup, “Belonging”, - all in Chapman 71 (1992-93)

*George N. Scott, “Peerie Willa: a Voice of Scotland”, Chapman 27/28 (1980)

Butler, P. H. Willa Muir: Writer. In C.J.M. MacLachlan and D.S. Robb, (eds.), Edwin Muir: Centenary Assessments. Aberdeen: ASLS, 1990. pp.58–74

Elphinstone, Margaret. “Willa Muir: Crossing the Genres.” In Gifford and McMillan, Dorothy (eds.), A History of Scottish Women’s Writing pp.400–15

Learning Journeys

Willa Muir
is part of:

The Response To Religion
Women Writers


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