Critical Works on James Leslie Mitchell/ Lewis Grassic Gibbon

A Bibliography by William K Malcolm

The Grassic Gibbon Centre regularly updates the following bibliography of writings about James Leslie Mitchell/ Lewis Grassic Gibbon. The Centre is keen to learn of additions or alterations to be made to the database, and would greatly appreciate further details of sources of significant references. The Centre also aims to build up an archive of criticism; photocopies of new or missing items would again be greatly appreciated.

The database was originally created in August, 2000 and remains the copyright of The Grassic Gibbon Centre.

The foundations for the bibliography were laid by a series of articles published in The Bibliotheck, particularly the ground-breaking inventory published by Geoffrey Wagner in 1956.

The articles concerned are :

Wagner, Geoffrey, ‘James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in The Bibliotheck, 1, no.1, 1956, pp.3-21

Aitken, W R, ‘Further Notes on the Bibliography of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in The Bibliotheck, 1, no.2, 1957, pp.34-35

Young, Douglas F, ‘James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Chronological Checklist: Additions I’, in The Bibliotheck, 5, no.5, 1969, pp.169-173

Kidd, James, ‘James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Chronological Checklist: Additions II’, in The Bibliotheck, 5, no.5, 1969, pp.174-7

Malcolm, William K, ‘James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon Checklist: Additions III’, in The Bibliotheck, 11, no.6, 1983, pp.149-156

An up to date collation of primary and secondary references is to be found in : Whyte, Hamish, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon : A Bibliographical Checklist', in A Flame in the Mearns - Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Centenary Celebration, edited by Margery Palmer McCulloch and Sarah M Dunnigan, Association for Scottish Literary Studies Occasional Papers: Number 13, ASLS, Glasgow, 2003, pp.157-75

A Books on Mitchell/Gibbon

Campbell, Ian, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1985

Ehland, Christoph, Picaresque Perspectives – Exiled Identities: A Structural and Methodological Analysis of the Picaresque as a Literary Archetype in the Works of James Leslie Mitchell, Universitatsverlag Winter Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 2003

Geddes, Clarke, Nemesis in the Mearns, Scottish Cultural Press, Edinburgh, 1996 (fictionalisation)

Gifford, Douglas, Neil M Gunn & Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1983

Lyall, Scott, editor, The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2015).

McCulloch, Margery Palmer, and Dunnigan, Sarah M, editors, A Flame in the Mearns Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Centenary Celebration, Association for Scottish Literary Studies Occasional Papers: Number 13, ASLS, Glasgow, 2003

Malcolm, William K, A Blasphemer & Reformer: A Study of James Leslie Mitchell/ Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen, 1984

Malcolm, William K, Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Revolutionary Writer, Capercaillie Books, Edinburgh, 2016

Munro, Ian S, Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1966

Whitfield, Peter, Grassic Gibbon and his World, Aberdeen Journals, Aberdeen, 1994

Young, Douglas F, Beyond the Sunset: A Study of James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Impulse Publications, Aberdeen, 1973

Zagratzki, Uwe, Libertare und Utopische Tendenzen im Erzahlwerk James Leslie Mitchells (Lewis Grassic Gibbons), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 1991

B University Theses

Abrahamsson, June, ‘The Two Chrisses in Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, Goteborg, 2001

Dixon, Keith, ‘Crise et Ideologies dans l’Oeuvre de James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) 1901-1935’, Grenoble, 1983

Ehland, Christoph, ‘A Structural and Methodological Analysis of the Picaresque as an Archetype in Literature: An Enquiry into the Picaresque Element in the Writing of James Leslie Mitchell’, Wuerzburg, 2001

Figueroa, Ricardo A, ‘The Model of Society in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Writings’, Glasgow, 1984

Fothergill, Gillian, ‘The Major Novels of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, Durham, 1980

Glowsky, Marius, ‘Narratives of Twentieth-Century Scotland: Trauma, Change and Reconstruction in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair and James Robertson’s And the Land Lay Still’, Göettingen, 2018

Grader, Daniel, ‘James Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus as a Historical Novel’, Edinburgh, 2004

Hunter, Sandra F M, ‘The Role and Status of Women in the Fiction of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 1995

Idle, Jeremy, ‘Race and Nationality in the Work of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, Edinburgh, 1994

Kerr, Christine, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon/ James Leslie Mitchell: Gender, Sex and Sexualities’, Sussex, 2002

Knoop, Andreas, ‘Die Beziehung Zwischen Mensch und Natur in den Werken von Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) und R.S. Thomas’, Tubingen, 2001

Li, Bing, ‘The languages of a working-class novel: a study of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Grey Granite and M.M. Bakhtin’s genre theory of the novel’, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, 1990

McGrath, Michael J, ‘James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon): A Study in Politics and Ideas in Relation to his Life and Work’, Edinburgh, 1983

Malcolm, William K, ‘The Novels and Stories of James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) in the Light of his Political and Philosophical Thinking’, Aberdeen, 1982

Mewald, Katharina, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair: Elements of the Regional, the National, and the Universal’, Vienna, 2010

Michael, Olivia, ‘Towards a Theory of Working Class Literature: Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s “A Scots Quair” in the context of earlier working class writing’, Leeds, 1992

Roskies, David M E, ‘The Proletarian Novel : A Study in the Application of a Literary Concept, with General Reference to 20th Century English Working-Class Fiction ; and Special Reference to Robert Tressell, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and Alan Sillitoe’, Sussex, 1977

Tange, Hanne, ‘Dichotomy As Principle: The Two Worlds of James Leslie Mitchell/ Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, Odense, 1996

Watt, Gordon A J, ‘Paths to Utopia – A Study of the Fiction of James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon)’, Exeter, 1977

Young, Douglas F, ‘The Relevance of the Non-Fiction Works to the Novels of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, Aberdeen, 1969

C Secondary References

Aitken, W R, Sixty Books on Scotland, School Library Association, London, 1951, pp.6-7 - ‘The Inscriptions in Sunset Song’, in The Bibliotheck, 8, 1976, pp.1-6

Allan, John R, North-East Lowlands of Scotland, Hale, London, 1952, pp.182-4

Allen, Walter, Tradition and Dream, Phoenix House, London, 1964, pp.249-252

Angus, David, ‘Gibbon’s Quair’, in Jabberwock: Edinburgh University Review, 3, no.3, March, 1951, pp.25-28

D’Arcy, Julian Meldon, ‘Chris Guthrie, Ellen Johns and the Two Ewan Tavendales: Significant Parallels in A Scots Quair’, in Scottish Literary Review, 23, no.1, May, 1996, pp.42-49

Baker, Timothy C, ‘The Romantic and the Real: James Leslie Mitchell and the Search for a Middle Way’, in Journal of Modern Literature, 36, no.4, Summer, 2013, pp. 44-61 - ‘A Scots Quair and History’, in The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon, edited by Scott Lyall, Scottish Literature International, Glasgow, 2015, pp.47-59

Barke, James, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in Left Review,2, no.5, February, 1936, pp.220-5

Bell, Ian, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Revolutionary Romanticism’, in Scottish Studies, 10, 1990, pp.257-69

Bell, Ian A, ‘ “Work as if you Live in the Early Days of a Better Nation”: Scottish Fiction and the Experience of Industry’, in British Industrial Fictions, edited by H Gustav Klaus and Stephen Knight, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2000, pp.185-9

Bergonzi, Bernard, Reading the Thirties, Macmillan, London, 1978, pp.9, 124

Bing, Christy, The Lairds of Arbuthnott, (revised edition), Agnate Press, Edzell, p.105

Bold, Alan, Modern Scottish Literature, Longman, London, 1983, pp.111, 123, 123-39, 140, 180, 199, 212, 213, 258 - (edits) The Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1984, pp.536-9, 552, 557, 558, 559-60, 562, 660, 784, 869 - MacDiarmid: A Critical Biography, John Murray, London, 1988, pp.313-15, 329, 330, 331, 415 - Scotland: A Literary Guide, Routledge, London, 1989, pp.22-23, 70, 84, 219

Bold, Valentina, ‘From Exile: The Poetry of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in A Flame in the Mearns Lewis Grassic Gibbon : A Centenary Celebration, op.cit., pp.115-123

Boos, Florence S, ‘William Morris’s Later Writings and the Socialist Modernism of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in Worldwide Pre-Raphaelitism, edited by Thomas J Tobin, State University of New York Press, 2005, pp.145-70

Borthwick, David, ‘From Grey Granite to Urban Grit: A Revolution in Perspectives’, in A Flame in the Mearns Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Centenary Celebration, op.cit., pp.64- 75

Branson, Noreen, and Heinemann, Margot, Britain in the Nineteen Thirties, Panther, St Albans, 1973, p.293

Bridie, James, The Scottish Character As It Was Viewed By Scottish Authors From Galt To Barrie, in Papers of the Greenock Philosophical Society, 1937, p.15

Brown, Ivor, ‘Caledonia Stern and Mild’, in The Observer, 1 August, 1943, p.3 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in Lewis Grassic Gibbon, A Scots Quair, Jarrolds, London, 1946, pp.5-8 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Tragic Loss to Literature’, in The Observer,10 February 1935, p.13 - Summer in Scotland, Collins, London, 1952, pp.130, 132, 147-153 - ‘Man of the Mearns’, in The Observer, 26 June, 1966

Brown, Oliver, ‘Sunset Song, sunset echo’, in New Saltire, December, 1962, pp.26-32

Burns, John, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon and A Scots Quair’, in Chapman 23-24, 5, nos.5-6, Spring, 1979, pp.22-27

Burton, Deirdre, ‘A Feminist Reading of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair’, in The British Working-Class Novel in the Twentieth Century, edited by Jeremy Hawthorn, Edward Arnold, London, pp.35-46

Caird, James B, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon and his Contribution to the Scottish Novel’, in Essays in Literature, edited by John Murray, Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1936, pp.139- 153 - ‘Some Reflections on Scottish Literature: II Prose’, in Scottish Periodical, 1, no.2, Summer, 1948, pp.69, 75 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Neil Gunn: A Comparison’, in Caliban, new series, 17, no.1, 1981, pp.69-77

Calder, Angus, ‘A Mania for Self-Reliance: Grassic Gibbon’s Scots Quair’, in The Uses of Fiction: Essays on the Modern Novel in Honour of Arnold Kettle, edited by Douglas Jefferson and Graham Martin, London, 1982, pp.99-113

Cameron, David Kerr, The Ballad and the Plough: A Portrait of the Life of the Old Scottish Farmtouns, Gollancz, London, 1978, pp.23, 231-32

Campbell, Ian M, ‘The Science Fiction of John Leslie Mitchell’(sic), in Extrapolation, no.16, 1974, pp.53-63 - ‘Chris Caledonia: The Search for an Identity’, in Scottish Literary Journal, 1, no.2, December, 1974, pp.45-57 - ‘James Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus: A Novel of Rebellion’, in Scottish Literary Journal, 5, no.1, May, 1978, pp.53-60 - ‘Gibbon and MacDiarmid in the German Democratic Republic’, in Books in Scotland, no.6, Winter, 1979-80, pp.6-7 - Kailyard: A New Assessment, Ramsay Head Press, Edinburgh, 1981, pp.86-100, 111-12, 122-24 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon/James Leslie Mitchell 91901-1935)’, in A Companion to Scottish Culture, edited by David Daiches, London, 1981, pp.149-50 - ‘Out of the Kailyard and Into the World’, in The Weekend Scotsman, 14 August, 1982, p.1 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in Books in Scotland, no.11, Winter, 1982-3, pp.8-10 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon Correspondence: The Background and a Checklist’, in The Bibliotheck, 12, no.2, 1984, pp.46-57 - ‘A Tribute that Never Was: The Plan for A Lewis Grassic Gibbon Festschrift’, in Studies in Scottish Literature, 20, 1985, pp.219-30 - ‘Gibbon and MacDiarmid at Play: The Evolution of Scottish Scene’, in The Bibliotheck, 13, no.2, 1986, pp.46-55 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon and the Mearns’, in A Sense of Place: Studies in Scottish Local History, edited by Graeme Cruickshank, Scotland’s Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh, 1988, pp.15-26 - ‘The Grassic Gibbon Style’, in Scottish Studies, 10, 1990, pp.271-87 - ‘Son of the Mearns’, in Books in Scotland, no.40, Winter, 1991, pp.5-6 - ‘The Grassic Gibbon Centre’, in Education in the North: New Series, no.1, Winter, 1993, pp.76-84 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Novelist, social historian & critic’, in Discovering Scottish Writers, edited by Alan Reid and Brian D Osborne, Scottish Cultural Press, Edinburgh, 1997, pp.38-39 - ‘Looking Back and Looking Forward: the Schooling of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in North-East Identities and Scottish Schooling, edited by David Northcroft, Elphinstone Institute, Aberdeen, 2005, pp.56-65 - ‘Editing a Twentieth-Century Novelist: Getting Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Back) Into Print,’ Studies in Scottish Literature, 39, no.1, 2013, pp.38-46 - ‘“A thin and tattered veil”: Lewis Grassic Gibbon and the Church of Scotland of his Time”’, in Studies in Scottish Literature, 43, no.1, 2017, pp.115-23

Carruthers, Gerard, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon and the Scottish Enlightenment’, in A Flame in the Mearns Lewis Grassic Gibbon : A Centenary Celebration, op.cit., pp.124-135 - Scottish Literature (Edinburgh Critical Guides), Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2009, pp.64-5, 74, 207-8

Carter, Ian, ‘Kailyard: The Literature of Decline in Nineteenth Century Scotland’, in Scottish Journal of Sociology, no.1, 1977, pp.1-13 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon, A Scots Quair, and the Peasantry’, in History Workshop, part 6, 1978, pp.169-85 - Farm Life in Northeast Scotland, 1840-1914: The Poor Man’s Country, John Donald, Edinburgh, 1979, pp.59, 160 - ‘North East Review: Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in Leopard, April, 1979, pp.31-34

Crickmar, Rohan Berry, ‘Violent Premonitions: Ideas on Violence, War and Rebellion in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song and James Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus’, in Discourses and Representations of War in British Literature and Culture, edited by J Fabiszak and W Klepuszewski, Politechnika Koszalińska, Koszalin, 2009, pp101-10

Clough, R F, ‘A Scots Quair: Ewan’s Rejection of Ellen’, in Scottish Literary Journal, 20, no.2, November, 1993, pp.41-48

Corbett, John, ‘Ecstacy Controlled : The Prose Styles of James Leslie Mitchell and Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in A Flame in the Mearns Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Centenary Celebration, op.cit., pp.89-103

Craig, Cairns, ‘The Body in the Kit Bag: History and the Scottish Novel’, in Cencrastus, no.1, Autumn, 1979, pp.18-22 - ‘Fearful Selves: Character, Community and the Scottish Imagination’, in Cencrastus, no.4, Winter, 1980-1, pp.29-32 - Out of History: Narrative Paradigms in Scottish and British Culture, Polygon, Edinburgh, 1996, pp.22, 23, 34, 36, 48-50, 53-4, 55-6, 59-60 - The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1999, pp.64-69, 93-97, 100, 101, 126, 155, 165, 167-8, 216, 246, 250

Craig, David, Scottish Literature and the Scottish People 1680-1830, Chatto & Windus, London, 1961, pp.87, 231, 236, 280, 291, 292, 293, 309 - ‘A National Literature? Recent Scottish Writing’, in Studies in Scottish Literature, 1, no.3, January, 1964, pp.151-169 - ‘Novels of Peasant Crisis’, in Journal of Peasant Studies, 2, 1974, pp.47-68

Crawford, Thomas, ‘The View from the North: Region and Nation in The Silver Darlings and A Scots Quair’, in The Literature of Region and Nation, edited by R P Draper, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 1988, pp.108-24

Critchley, William, ‘A Scots Quair: Odes to Every Zephyr’, in S.L.A. News, January/February 1963, pp.9-11

Croft, Andy, Red Letter Days: British Fiction in the 1930s, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1990, pp.49, 102, 157, 173-4, 182, 213, 219, 227-8, 240 - ‘Authors Take Sides: Writers and the Communist Party 1920-56’, in Opening the Books: Essays on the Social and Cultural History of the British Communist Party, edited by Geoff Andrews, Nina Fishman and Kevin Morgan, Pluto Press, London, 1995, pp.83-101

Crossland, J Brian, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in The Glasgow Herald, 20 April, 1968

Cruickshank, Helen B, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Memorial Note’, in Montrose Standard, 1 March, 1935, p.8 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Personal Note’, in British Weekly, 14 February, 1935, p.405 - ‘Mearns Memory: A Fellow-countrywoman’s View of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in The Scots Magazine, February, 1939, pp.350-4 - ‘Suggested Public Memorial’, in The Mearns Leader, 28 February, 1935, p.3 - ‘The Country of Grassic Gibbon’, in Scotland’s Magazine, May, 1959, pp.41-2 - Octobiography, The Standard Press, Montrose, 1976, pp.14, 75, 87-92, 94, 125, 151, 153, 156

Cubitt, Richard, ‘Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song’, in English Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism, 2014, pp.82-6

Cunningham, Valentine, British Writers of the Thirties, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988, pp.26, 41-2, 59-60, 91-2, 170, 206, 254, 262, 268, 274, 307-13, 316, 320, - ‘The Age of Anxiety and Influence; or, Tradition and the Thirties Talents’, in Rewriting the Thirties: Modernism and After, edited by Keith Williams and Steven Matthews, Longman, London, 1997, pp.5-22

Daglish, Doris N, ‘Towards A Nationalist Literature’, in The Times Literary Supplement, 30 April, 1938, special section (‘Scottish Literature Today’), p.x

Daiches, David, The Present Age after 1920, Cresset Press, London, 1958

Davie, G E, ‘The End of a Renaissance’, in The Student: Edinburgh University Magazine, 32, no.1, 22 October, 1935, pp.26-27

Devine, T M, The Scottish Nation 1700-2000, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London, 1999, p.320

D F, ‘The Scottish Scene’, in The Scottish Educational Journal, Monthly Book Supplement, 29 June, 1934, p.864

Dixon, Keith, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Scotland and Nationalism’, in Scottish Studies, 8, 1989, pp.201-11 - ‘LGG, Scotland and Nationalism’, in Nationalism in Literature, edited by Horst W Drescher and Hermann Volkel, Frankfurt am Main, 1989 - ‘Nation et Nationalisme dans A Scots Quair’, in Ecosse, 1, pp.129-140 - ‘Grey Granite: didactique politique et echec litteraire’, in Ecosse, 2, pp.151-163 - ‘1934: litterature et politique en Ecosse’, in Ecosse, 3-4, pp.39-51 - ‘Rough Edges: The Feminist Representation of Women in the Writing of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in Studies in Scottish Fiction: Twentieth Century, edited by Joachim Schwend and Horst W Drescher, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 1990, pp.289-301 - ‘Letting the Side Down: some remarks on James Leslie Mitchell’s vision of history’, in Etudes Ecossaises Grenoble, no.1, pp.273-81 - ‘The Gospels According to Saint Bakunin: Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Libertarian Communism’, in A Flame in the Mearns Lewis Grassic Gibbon : A Centenary Celebration, op.cit., pp.136-47

Duncan, Jane, ‘A Flawed Work of Genius’, in The Scots Magazine, August, 1966, pp.421-2

Duncan, Fraser, ‘The Land of Sunset Song’, in Guide to the Glens of Angus and Mearns, Montrose, 1963, pp.55-57

Ehland, Christoph, ‘New Perspective on Mitchell’, in The Speak of the Place, 4, no.2, Spring, 2004, pp.2-4

Everill, Elizabeth, ‘Literary Landscapes’, in The Scottish Field, November, 1998, pp.38-42

Figueroa, Ricardo A, ‘The Other Grassic Gibbon’, in Quarterly Bulletin of the Marx Memorial Library, no96-7, 1981, pp.5-6

Finlay, Ian, Scotland, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1945, p.121 - ‘Funeral of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in Montrose Standard, 1 March, 1935, p.7 - ‘Genius Unfulfilled’, in The Mearns Leader, 14 February, 1935, p.7

Foot, Paul, ‘Way beyond the usual suspects’, in The Guardian, 24 July, 2001, p.18 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Poet of the Granite City’, in Socialist Review no. 258, December, 2001, pp.24-25

Gibson, Colin, ‘Master of the Mearns’, in The Scots Magazine, March, 1964, pp.504-11

Gifford, Douglas, ‘In Search of the Scottish Renaissance’, in Cencrastus, no.9, Summer, 1982, pp.26-30

Gillis, William, Review of Munro, in Studies in Scottish Literature, 6, no.3, January, 1969, p.196

Gindin, James, British Fiction in the 1930s: The Dispiriting Decade, Macmillan, London, 1992, pp.14, 21, 61-2, 66-73, 81

Glen, Duncan, Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance, W& R Chambers, Edinburgh, 1964, pp.106, 117-18, 164, 189, 232, 246, 268 - The Autobiography of a Poet, Ramsay Head Press, Edinburgh, 1986, pp.67-8

Graham, Cuthbert, ‘The Man Who Wrote Cloud Howe: Lewis Grassic Gibbon – An Intimate Sketch’, in Aberdeen Bon-Accord, 2 February, 1934, p.9 - ‘Scotland Mourns Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in The Mearns Leader, 14 February, 1935, p.3 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in The Aberdeen University Review, 29, no.85, Winter, 1941, pp.4-16 - ‘The Land of Sunset Song’, in Aberdeen Press and Journal, 13 November, 1965 - ‘The Man Who Saw the Morning Star’, in The Scots Magazine, August, 1966, pp.417-420 - ‘Leslie Mitchell: Tragedy and Triumph’, in The Press and Journal, 28 May, 1966 - ‘Grassic Gibbon: The Dream and Reality’, in The Press and Journal, 11 November, 1967 - ‘Remembering Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in Deeside Field, 19, 1987, pp.63-67

Graham, Laurence, ‘A Great Scots Novelist’, in The New Shetlander, no.77, 1966, pp.19-21

Gray, Alasdair, A Short Survey of Classic Scottish Writing, Canongate, Edinburgh, 2001, pp.138-42

Gray, Alexander, ‘His School Essays Even Baffled the Rector’, in The People’s Journal, 16 May, 1964, p.13

Grieve, C M, ‘Contemporary Scottish Studies, I: Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in The Free Man, 29 July, 1933, p.7 - ‘Recent Scottish Literature, IV’, in The Free Man, 16 December, 1933, p.8 - ‘Recent Scottish Literature, VI’, in The Free Man, 3 February, 1934, p.4

Gunn, Neil M, ‘Literature: Class or National?’, in Outlook, July, 1936, p.55 - ‘Nationalism in Writing’, in The Scots Magazine, October, 1938, pp.28-35 - ‘Scotland a Nation’, in Left Review, 2 no.14, November, 1936, pp.735-738

Hardy, H Forsyth, ‘The Scots Scene’, in The Scotsman, 2 December, 1967

Harper, Norman, ‘Stellar Gibbon’, in The Press and Journal, 20 August, 1997

Hart, Francis Russell, The Scottish Novel: A Critical Survey, John Murray, London, 1978, pp. 229-41 - and Pick, J B, Neil M Gunn: A Highland Life, John Murray, London, 1981, pp.10, 17, 99, 136-7

Harvie, Christopher, No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Twentieth-Century Scotland, Edward Arnold, London, 1987, pp.34, 129, 131-4

Haywood, Ian, Working-Class Fiction from Chartism to Trainspotting, Northcote House, Plymouth, 1997, pp.48, 79-81

Henderson, Hamish, ‘Flower and Iron of the Truth’, in Our Time, 2, no.2, September, 1948, pp.304-306 - Alias MacAlias: Writings on Songs, Folk and Literature, edited by Alex Finlay, Polygon, Edinburgh, 1992, pp.306-7

Henderson, Philip, The Novel Today: Studies in Contemporary Attitudes, John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1936, pp.271-287

Hewitt, David, ‘Outside view of a native son’, in Evening Express, 27 November, 1987, p.10

Hodges, Jeremy, ‘My father the author, misfit and breaker of taboos’, in the Daily Mail, 19 February, 2001, p.24

Holderness, Graham, ‘Anarchism and fiction’, in The Rise of Socialist Fiction 1880-1914, edited by H Gustav Klaus, Harvester Press, Brighton, 1987, pp.121-50

Hoops, Reinald, ‘Die Schottische Renaissancebewegung’, in Englische Studien (Leipzig), 67, 1932-3, pp.371-390 - ‘In Memoriam L.G.G.’, in The Scottish News Letter, 11 May, 1939, p.4

Howatson, Bill, ‘Son of The Mearns and the grudging earth’, in The Press & Journal, 20 October, 2000, p.16

Idle, Jeremy, ‘The Bowdlerisation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair’, in The Bibliotheck, 17, nos.1-3, 1990-91, pp.63-69 - ‘A Ferocity of Opinions’, in Books in Scotland, no.40, Winter, 1991, pp.6-7 - ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon and the Urgency of the Modern’, in Studies in Scottish Literature, 31, no.1, 1999, pp.258-68

Jay, Robin, ‘Monument in the Mearns’, in The Scottish Field, January, 1939, pp.17-19

Johnson, Roy, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon and A Scots Quair: Politics in the Novel’, in Renaissance and Modern Studies, 20, 1976, pp.39-53

Johnstone, Richard, The Will to Believe, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1982, pp.4, 32

Katin, Louis, ‘Author of Sunset Song’, in The Evening News (Glasgow), 16 February,1933, p.6

Keir, Walter, ‘Scottish History and Scottish Fiction’, in Saltire Review of Arts, Letters and Life, 1, no.1, April, 1954, pp.29-36

Kellas, James G, Modern Scotland, Pall Mall Press, London, 1968

Kettle, Arnold, An Introduction to the English Novel, 2, Hutchinson University Library, London, 1953, p.65

Kidd, J K, ‘The Voice of the Land’, in S.L.A. News, November/December, 1964, pp.15-18 - ‘Thistles With the Grain’, in Library Review, 21, no.5, Spring, 1968, pp.267-269

Klaus, H Gustav, ‘Silhouettes of Revolution: Some Neglected Novels of the Early 1920s’, in The Socialist Novel in Britain, edited by H Gustav Klaus, Harvester Press, Brighton, 1982, pp.89-109 - The Literature of Labour: 200 Years of Working Class Writing, Harvester Press, Brighton, 1985, pp.123, 126 - ‘Introduction’, in Tramps, Workmates and Revolutionaries: Working-class Stories of the 1920s, edited by H Gustav Klaus, Journeyman Press, London, 1993, pp.1-14 - ‘James Barke: A Great-hearted Writer, A Hater of Oppression, A True Scot’, in A Weapon in the Struggle: The Cultural History of the Communist Party of Great Britain, edited by Andy Croft, Pluto Press, London, 1998, pp.7-27

Kocmanova, Jessie, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Pioneer of Socialist Realism’, in The Journal of Brno University, 1955 - ‘A Scots Quair and its Relevance to the Scottosh Proletarian Struggle of the 1930s’, in English Literature and the Working Class , edited by Francisco Garcia Tortosa and Ramon Lopez Ortega, Seville, 1980, pp.77-93

Kreemers, Ralph, ‘Engelsche Letteren: J. Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935)’, in Dietsche Warande en Belfort (Antwerp), no.5, Mei, 1935, pp.368-377

Laplace, Philippe, ‘Freedom and subservience in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song’, in Taking Liberties: Scottish Literature and Expressions of Freedom, Occasional Papers series No. 21, edited by Ian Brown, David Clark and Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez, ASLS, Glasgow, 2016, pp.137-51

Lehmann, John, New Writing in Europe, Penguin Books, London, 1940, pp.130-132

Lindsay, Jack, ‘A Great Scots Novelist: The Cycle of Industrialisation’, in Our Time, 5, no.12, July, 1946, pp.257-8 - After the Thirties: The Novel in Britain and its Future, Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1956, p.48-54

Lindsay, John, ‘J. Leslie Mitchell: An Appreciation’, in The Twentieth Century

Lindsay, Maurice, A Pocket Guide to Scottish Culture, William Maclellan, Glasgow, 1947, p.15 - The Scottish Renaissance, Serif Books, Edinburgh, 1948, p.26 - By Yon Bonnie Banks: A Gallimaufry, Hutchinson, London, 1961 - History of Scottish Literature, Robert Hale, London, 1977, pp.7, 414-16, 424, 427

Lobban, R D, ‘The Real Kinraddie’, in The Scotsman Weekend Supplement, 17 April, 1971, p.1

Low, Catriona M, ‘The Rendering of Community Voices in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Short Stories’, in A Flame in the Mearns Lewis Grassic Gibbon : A Centenary Celebration, op.cit., pp.104-114

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