Product Description: Joanna Bannerman, capricious, selfish, and warm-hearted, passionately seeks life and "loveliness". The bustling streets of Glasgow at the turn of the century promise much greater excitement than the solid evangelical background she has known hitherto...read more

Product Description: As a fine novelist, critic, and biographer Catherine Carswell led a passionate and various life, full of intellectual commitment and a wide range of social interests. She worked on this original, modest, and yet richly remarkable autobiography over a number of years, coming back to it again and again, almost as an act of meditation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 1930 to an unprecedented storm of protest, Catherine Carswell's The Life of Robert Burns remains the standard work on its subject. Carswell deliberately shakes the image of Burns as a romantic hero, exposing the sexual misdemeanors, drinking bouts, and waywardness, that other, more reverential, biographies choose to overlook...read more

Product Description: Catherine Carswell (1879-1945), the novelist and biographer of Burns, was also a regular reviewer of new fiction in her early career. She became convinced that D. H. Lawrence was a great writer when she reviewed his first books, made his acquaintance, and became a lifelong and faithful friend...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)