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| JM Barrie |
Many of the best and most enduring children’s classic
novels were written by Scots in the 20th century -
Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Doctor
Jekyll and Mr Hyde)
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| Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Andrew Lang |
RM Ballantyne (Coral Island), Andrew Lang (great populiser of folk
& fairy tales), Kenneth Grahame
(The Wind in the Willows), Catherine
Sinclair ( Holiday House), JM Barrie (Peter Pan), John Buchan, (The Thirty Nine Steps)
Arthur Conan Doyle (1930) Sherlock
Holmes)
George Macdonald (The Princess and the Goblin, At the
Back of the North Wind), Pioneer fantasy literature, mentor Lewis
Carroll, influence on JR Tolkien, Walter De la Mare, E Nesbit.
I am shocked reading of al these great authors that
growing up in Scotland `I leant nothing about them. Well apart from a Disney film
on Treasure Island. Then again I grew up in Edinburgh where many support the
unionist imperialism of a superior race. – that is that one group of people are
better than others. Are we not all considered equal….?
