Imagined selves - Willa Muir

This volume gathers together some of the real and the imagined lives of
Willa Muir, one of the finest and fiercest intellectuals of her
generation.

Her writing is rich with paradox - although
obsessively Scottish in subject and style, she resented Scotland;
although a trenchant champion of feminism, she voluntarily sacrificed
her identity to that of the 'poet's wife'; and although she was a
committed reformer, she never aligned herself with any political or
ideological movement. These passionate dichotomies are intertwined in
her writing, giving a particular power to her fiction and non-fiction
alike. This collection is the first publication to offer a sense of the
diversity of Willa Muir's oeuvre. It makes possible the re-evaluation of
her work and assures her of a deserved place in the Scottish literary
canon.