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“knowing the challenges Spark overcame makes me doubly grateful for her”

Writing for the Royal Literary Fund, Lauren J. Joseph reflects on a quality many writers have to develop – the “sheer bloody-mindedness” Spark had in spades

15/18

https://www.rlf.org.uk/posts/the-relentless-brilliance-of-muriel-spark/

#Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #20thCentury #WomenWriters #writing

Royal Literary Fund

The relentless brilliance of Muriel Spark

Lauren J. Joseph on Muriel Spark, who applied to the RLF for a grant in 1950, seven years before the publication of her first novel.

#womenwriters #20thcentury #murielspark #scottish #literature #writing

Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 months ago

“It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.”

—extracts from A GOOD COMB, by Muriel Spark, ed. Penelope Jardine – via @literaryhub

14/18

https://lithub.com/a-few-words-of-indispensible-advice-from-muriel-spark/

#Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #20thCentury #WomenWriters #advice #Paris

Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 months ago

“knowing the challenges Spark overcame makes me doubly grateful for her”

Writing for the Royal Literary Fund, Lauren J. Joseph reflects on a quality many writers have to develop – the “sheer bloody-mindedness” Spark had in spades

15/18

https://www.rlf.org.uk/posts/the-relentless-brilliance-of-muriel-spark/

#Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #20thCentury #WomenWriters #writing

Royal Literary Fund

The relentless brilliance of Muriel Spark

Lauren J. Joseph on Muriel Spark, who applied to the RLF for a grant in 1950, seven years before the publication of her first novel.

Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 months ago

AFTERWORDS: Muriel Spark
“One’s prime is elusive…”

—On BBC Sounds: writers Ian Rankin & Zoë Strachan discuss Muriel Spark’s life & work with National Library of Scotland curator Colin McIlroy, & Spark’s friend & memoirist, Alan Taylor

16/18

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018238

#Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #20thCentury #WomenWriters