A quote from The Grampian Quartet The day came for Mary to go. There was a bustle of departure. 'Next year,' they all shouted. The dogs jumped and barked. Jenny ran to the end of the depa...

Mary Kilgour's return to London, in Nan Shepherd's Scottish Renaissance novel, 'A Pass in the Grampians' (1933):
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Strengthening Scottish Identity in the 1930s - Edinburgh University Press Blog Duncan Sim on the founding of the Claymore magazine by Alastair Dunnett and Seumas Adam, and its impact on Scottish identity

Strengthening Scottish identity in the 1930s | Duncan Sim on 'Claymore', the only weekly for Scottish boys.
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A quote from The Grampian Quartet Dorabel was now as pleased as a half-crown. Everyone knew her. With her scarlet cap and bright yellow dress she had, and her great height, she walked abo...

Dorabel Cassidy, née Bella Cassie, savours the splash she has made and anticipates the impact of her new house on backward Kincardineshire, in Nan Shepherd's novel, 'A Pass in the Grampians' (1933):
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A quote from The Grampian Quartet Alexander Kilgour, in true Scottish style, was educated for the Church. At thirty-five he filled a Chair of Divinity. Two members of his Presbytery, befo...

Nan Shepherd on Alexander Kilgour's successful navigation of Presbyterian controversy, in her Scottish Renaissance novel, 'A Pass in the Grampians' (PIG) (1933):
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A quote from The Weatherhouse Around him he noted that the woods were flaming. A fine flame was playing over the leafless branches, not gaudy like the fires of autumn, but strong and ...

A glimpse of the dryad, from Nan Shepherd's Scottish Renaissance novel, 'The Weatherhouse' (1930):
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A quote from The Weatherhouse Life recommenced. Dogs barked, cocks crew, smoke rose, men shouted, women clattered their milk pails. Soon figures moved upon the empty fields. Somewhere...

A fine spring morning in Aberdeenshire, from Nan Shepherd's Scottish Renaissance novel, 'The Weatherhouse' (1930):
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A quote from The Quarry Wood It's a grand thing to get leave to live.

"It's a grand thing to get leave to live." - from Nan Shepherd's Scottish Renaissance novel, 'The Quarry Wood' (2928):
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A quote from The Quarry Wood The grey Crown, that had soared through so many generations above the surge and excitement of youth, had told her that wisdom is patient and waits for it...

Nan Shepherd on King's College, Aberdeen, and the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, in her novel 'The Quarry Wood' (1928):
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A quote from The Quarry Wood Martha said it over and over to herself: Scotland is bounded on the south by England, on the east by the rising sun, on the north by the Arory-bory-Alic...

The Boundaries of Scotland: From Nan Shepherd's novel 'The Quarry Wood' (1928):
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A quote from The Quarry Wood Martha Ironside was nine years old when she kicked her great-aunt Josephine. At nineteen she loved the old lady, idly perhaps, in her natural humour, as ...

Martha Ironside's evolving relationship with her great-aunt Josephine, from Nan Shepherd's novel 'The Quarry Wood' (1928):
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A quote from The Camomile Don't you agree that there must be something radically wrong with a civilisation, society, theory of life - call it what you like in which a hard-working...

Catherine Carswell on the plight of the hard-working, serious young woman | 'The Camomile' (1922):
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A quote from Tom Scott / Ann Scott-Moncrieff Willy - red and shining, his spectacled bemisted, voice glutinous, alcohol sweating from every pore - had sung what he called an old English madrigal in ...

Social Encounters of the Scottish Renaissance No. 1: Ann Scott-Moncrieff from her short story 'Threesome'...
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