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Alexander Scott c1525-c1585
Makaris Poet
- 1568 - The Bannntyne Manuscript contains 35 of his poems
- "The Justing and Debait up at the Drum betuix William Adamsone and Johine Sym"
- 1562 - "Ane New Yeir Gift to Quene Mary"
Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832
Born in Edinburgh. Died in Abbotsford, Roxburgh
Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Editor, Journalist
Plays
- 1822 - "Halidon Hill"
- 1823 - "Macduff's Cross"
- 1830 - "The Ayrshire Tragedy"
Poetry
- 1802-03 -"Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" - a collection of ballads
- 1805 - "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"
- 1810 - "The Lady of the Lake"
- 1815 - "The Lord of the Isles"
Novels
- 1814 - "Waverley"
- 1815 - "Guy Mannering"
- 1816 - "Old Mortality", "The Antiquary"
- 1818 - "The Heart of Midlothian", "Rob Roy"
- 1819 - "Ivanhoe"
- 1821 - "Kenilworth"
- 1823 - "Quentin Durward"
- 1824 - "Redgauntlet"
- 1828 - "The Fair Maid of Perth"
Other Works
- 1818 - "Essays on Chivalry"
- 1827 - "The Life of Napolean Buonaparte"
- 1829-30 - "History of Scotland"
- 1830 - "Essays on Ballad Poetry"
William Sharp ("Fiona MacLeod") 1855-1905
Born in Paisley. Died in Sicily
Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Biographer
- 1886 - "Sonnets of This Century"
- 1888 - "Sport of Chance"
- 1891 - "Sospiri di Roma" - a collection of poems
- 1894 - "Pharais" - written as "Fiona MacLeod"
Anna (Nan) Shepherd 1893-1981
Born in West Cults, Aberdeenshire. Died in Aberdeen
Novelist, Poet, Editor
- 1928 - "The Quarry Wood"
- 1930 - "The Weatherhouse"
- 1933 - "A Pass In The Grampians"
- 1934 - "In The Cairngorms" - a collection of poems
- 1977 - "The Living Mountain"
Samuel Smiles 1812-1904
Born in Haddington. Died in London
Social Commentator, Journalist, Editor
- 1859 - "Self-Help"
- 1861-62 - "Lives of the Engineers" - 3 volumes
- 1871 - "Character"
- 1874 - "Lives of the Engineers" - enlarged edition to become 5 volumes
- 1875 - "Thrift"
- 1880 - "Duty"
- 1905 - "Autobiography" - published posthumously
Sydney Goodsir Smith 1915-1975
Born in Wellington, New Zealand. Died in Edinburgh
Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Critic
- 1941 - "Skail Wind"
- 1943 - "The Wanderer and Other Poems"
- 1946 - "The Deevil's Waltz"
- 1947 - "Carotid Cornucopius", "Selected Poems"
- 1948 - "Under the Eildon Tree"
- 1951 - "The Aipple and the Hazel", "A Short Introduction to Scottish Literature"
- 1952 - "So Late Into the Night"
- 1953 - "Cokkils"
- 1955 - "Omens", "Orpheus and Eurydice"
- 1959 - "Figs and Thistles"
- 1960 - "The Vision of the Prodigal Son", "The Wallace"
- 1965 - "Kynd Kittock's Land"
- 1966 - "A Choice of Burns's Poems and Songs"
- 1969 - "Fifteen Poems and a Play"
- 1974 - "Gowdspink in Reekie"
- 1975 - "Collected Poems"
Tobias George Smollett 1721-1771
Born in Cardross, Dumbartonshire. Died in Leghorn, Italy
Novelist, Poet, Dramatist, Journalist, Editor
Poetry
- 1746 - "The Tears of Scotland"
- 1773 - "Ode to Independence"
Drama
- 1749 - "The Regicide"
- 1757 - "The Reprisal"
Novels
- 1748 - "The Adventures of Roderick Random" - 2 volumes
- 1751 - "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" - 4 volumes
- 1753 - "The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom" - 2 volumes
- 1762 - "The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves" - 2 volumes
- 1771 - "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" - 3 volumes
Other Works
- 1752 - "An Essay on the External Use of Water"
- 1766 - "Travels Through France and Italy" - 2 volumes
- 1769 - "The History and Adventures of an Atom" - 2 volumes
William Soutar 1898-1943
Born in Perth. Died in Perth
Poet
- 1933 - "Seeds in the Wind"
- 1935 - "Poems in Scots", "Brief Words"
- 1937 - "Riddles in Scots"
- 1944 - "The Expectant Silence"
Muriel (Sarah) Spark 1918-
Born in Edinburgh.
Novelist, Critic, Poet, Playwright, Editor
Critiques
- 1951 - "Child of Light: A Reassessment of Mary Shelley"
- 1953 - "John Masefield"
- 1954 - "The Bronte Letters"
Novels
- 1959 - "Memento Mori"
- 1960 - "The Ballad of Peckham Rye", "The Bachelors"
- 1961 - "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" - made into a film and stage play
- 1963 - "The Girls of Slender Means"
- 1965 - "The Mandelbaum Gate"
- 1970 - "The Driver's Seat"
- 1971 - "Not to Disturb"
Other Works
- 1967 - "Collected Poems", "Collected Stories"
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894
Born in Edinburgh. Died in Samoa
Novelist, Poet, Critic, Travel Writer, Essayist
Poetry
- 1885 - "A Child's Garden of Verses"
- 1887 - "Underwoods"
- 1890 - "Ballads"
- 1896 - "Songs of Travel and Other Verses"
Essays
- 1878 - "An Inland voyage"
- 1879 - "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes"
- 1887 - "Memories and Portraits"
- 1892 - "Across the Plains"
Novels
- 1882 - "New Arabian Nights"
- 1883 - "Treasure Island" - made into a film
- 1885 - "Prince Otto"
- 1886 - "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "Kidnapped" - both made into films
- 1889 - "The Master of Ballantrae" - made into a film
- 1893 - "Catriona"
- 1894 - "Ebb-Tide"
- 1896 - "Weir of Hermiston" - considered to be his best work, unfinished, dramatised on TV
- 1897 - "St Ives" - published posthumously, finished by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Annie Shepherd Swan ("David Lyall"), ("Mrs. Burnett Smith") 1858-1943
Born in Coldingham, Berwickshire. Died in Gullane
Novelist, Story Writer, Journalist
- 1878 - "Ups and Downs"
- 1882 - "Grandmother's Child", "Into the Haven"
- 1883 - "A Year at Coverley", "Aldershyde"
- 1885 - "Adam Hepburn's Vow"
- 1890 - "A Vexed Inheritance"
- 1895 - "The Bonnie Jean"
- 1900 - "An American Woman"
- 1906 - "A Mask of Gold"
- 1910 - "What Shall it Profit?"
- 1915 - "Letters to a War Bride"
- 1920 - "America at Home"
- 1925 - "Across the Path"
- 1930 - "Forerunners"
- 1935 - "The Bondage of Riches"
- 1937 - "The Road to Damascus"
- 1940 - "The Secret of Skye"
- 1941 - "Rebel Hearts"
- 1942 - "Who are the Heathen?"