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Name: Anna Buchan (O. Douglas)
From: 1877
To: 1948
Biography: Anna Buchan was born in Perth, a minister’s daughter and the younger sister of John Buchan (q.v.). She was educated in Glasgow, but spent most of her life at Bank House in Peebles, which Border town she recreated in her work as Priorsford. Written under the pen-name O. (Olive) Douglas, her fiction is domestic and heart-warming rather than dramatic, but it nevertheless constitutes a fond and well-observed portrait of provincial Scottish life. To the annoyance of some modern critics, she did not tackle feminist issues or articulate the political concerns of women after the First World War
Background Reading: S.A. Scott:‘O. Douglas’: the Story of Anna Buchan, ISBN B0000COJ6M; D. Sly (2001) ‘Pink Sugary Pleasures: Reading the Novels of Anna Buchan’ Journal of Popular Culture 35 (1): 5–19.
Titles: Unforgettable, Unforgotten | Farewell to Priorsford |
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Home | Author detail page
Name: Anna Buchan (O. Douglas)
From: 1877
To: 1948
Biography: Anna Buchan was born in Perth, a minister’s daughter and the younger sister of John Buchan (q.v.). She was educated in Glasgow, but spent most of her life at Bank House in Peebles, which Border town she recreated in her work as Priorsford. Written under the pen-name O. (Olive) Douglas, her fiction is domestic and heart-warming rather than dramatic, but it nevertheless constitutes a fond and well-observed portrait of provincial Scottish life. To the annoyance of some modern critics, she did not tackle feminist issues or articulate the political concerns of women after the First World War
Background Reading: S.A. Scott:‘O. Douglas’: the Story of Anna Buchan, ISBN B0000COJ6M; D. Sly (2001) ‘Pink Sugary Pleasures: Reading the Novels of Anna Buchan’ Journal of Popular Culture 35 (1): 5–19.
Titles: Unforgettable, Unforgotten | Farewell to Priorsford |
SITEMAP | LINKS | TERMS & CONDITIONS | © Edinburgh Film Focus 2009