Catherine Carswell

Catherine Roxburgh Carswell (née Macfarlane; 27 March 1879 – 18 February 1946) was a Scottish author, biographer and journalist, now known as one of the few women to take part in the Scottish Renaissance. Her biography of the Scottish poet Robert Burns aroused controversy, but two earlier novels of hers, set in Edwardian Glasgow, were little noticed until their republication by the feminist publishing house Virago in 1987.

Quotes

• I have found that men, in all other ways admirable, have insisted upon flattery, upon extreme tact, upon suppression of opinion, in short, upon the sort of extreme and conscious consideration one shows to children or to persons suffering from nervous ailments.
  • Lying Awake: An Unfinished Autobiography and Other Posthumous Papers, ed. John Carswell (1950), ch. 12, "Men and Women".
  • Cf. Marion Reid, "We shall be disposed to acknowledge that woman's influence has been sufficient to obtain her justice, ..."

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Catherine Carswell on Wikipedia