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Jenni Calder
(
nee
Daiches
) (born 1941) is a Scottish literary historian, and arts establishment figure.
Edinburgh based, she has been part of the Scottish literary community for many years. Her teaching and writing cover Scottish, English and American literary and historical subjects.
She has written 28 books on literary and historical subjects,
[1]
[2]
including biographies of
Walter Scott
,
Robert Louis Stevenson
,
George Orwell
and
Naomi Mitchison
and books on Scottish history and Scottish emigration. She has a particular research interest in emigration and the Scottish diaspora. She worked at the National Museums of Scotland from 1978 to 2001 and latterly as Head of Museum of Scotland International.
[3]
In 2003 she helped to organise the
National Museums of Scotland
's exhibition called 'Trailblazers - the Scots in Canada'.
[4]
She was president of
Scottish PEN
, a not-for-profit organisation that champions freedom of expression and literature across borders.
[5]
She writes fiction and poetry as Jenni Daiches.
[6]
She was formerly married to
Angus Calder
, and is the daughter of
David Daiches
a prominent Scottish, Jewish, writer, critic and historian. She was born in the US and spent time in Kenya. Her book
Not Nebuchadnezzar
is a partly a biography and a
'chronicle of the consuming search for that elusive concept known as 'identity
''.
[7]
She has spoken out about anti-antisemitism.
[8]
On the question of
Scottish independence
; of 27 Scottish authors whose opinion was sought, Calder was one of only two offering a definite No.
[9]
Some works
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- Calder, Jenni (1968).
Chronicles of Conscience: A Study of George Orwell and Arthur Koestler
.
ISBN
082295205X
.
- There Must Be a Lone Ranger: The myth and reality of the American Wild West
. Hamish Hamilton, 1974
- Huxley Brave New World and Orwell Nineteen Eighty Four
. Edward Arnold, 1976
- Calder, Jenni (1976).
Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction
. Thames & Hudson Ltd.
ISBN
0500520011
.
- Calder, Jenni (1977).
The Victorian Home
. Batsford Ltd.
ISBN
0713408170
.
- Calder, Jenni (1977).
Heroes: From Byron to Guevara
. Haminsh Hamilton.
ISBN
0241895367
.
- Calder, Jenni (1980).
RLS: Life Study Of Robert Louis Stevenson
. Hamish Hamilton.
ISBN
9780241103746
.
- Stevenson and Victorian Scotland
. Edinburgh University Press, 1984
- Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four
. Open University, 1988
- The Wealth of a Nation
. Publications Office, Edinburgh, 1989
- Scotland in Trust: The National Trust for Scotland
, 1990
- Calder, Jenni (2017).
Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
. Luath Press Ltd.
ISBN
9781910021262
.
- Daiches, Jenni (2006).
Letters from the Great Wall
.
ISBN
9781905222513
.
- Calder, Jenni (2013).
Lost in the Backwoods
. Edinburgh University Press.
ISBN
9780748647392
.
- Calder, Jenni (2018).
Essence of Edinburgh
. Luath Press Ltd.
ISBN
9781912147540
.
- Calder, Jenni (2019).
The Burning Glass
. Sandstone Press Ltd.
ISBN
9781912240661
.
- Calder, Jenni (2013).
The Scots in Canada
. Luath Press Ltd.
ISBN
9781908373038
.
- Calder, Jenni (2010).
Frontier Scots
. Luath Press Ltd.
ISBN
9781906307998
.
- Daiches, Jenni (2015).
Forgive
. Luath Press Ltd.
ISBN
9781910021385
.
- The Story of the Scottish Soldier, 1600-1914
. National Museums of Scotland, 1992
- Enterprising Scot: Scottish Adventure and Achievement
. National Museums of Scotland, 1995
- Calder, Jenni (1997).
The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison
. Virago.
ISBN
1853817244
.
- Scots in the USA
. Luath Press, 2006
- Calder, Jenni (2005).
Not Nebuchadnezzar
. Luath Press Ltd.
ISBN
9781842820605
.
Reviews
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- Clunas, Alexander (1982), review of
Stevenson and Victorian Scotland
, in Murray, Glen (ed.),
Cencrastus
No. 8, Spring 1982, pp. 42 & 42,
ISSN
0264-0856
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