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Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 128 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; "Macclesfield Museums Trust"--Page 4 of cover. Subjects; Silk industry England Macclesfield History. Silk industry. Silk industry England Macclesfield History ; Pictorial works. Silk industry Macclesfield History. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 128 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; "Macclesfield Museums Trust"--Page 4 of cover. Subjects; Silk industry England Macclesfield History. Silk industry. Silk industry England Macclesfield History ; Pictorial works. Silk industry Macclesfield History. 1 Kg. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Internally in very good condition indeed, cover has some mild wear.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. 135 pages : illustration ; 21 cm ; SIGNED by author on title page ; ISBN 9781912147328, 1912147327 ; OCLC 1020453490 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Poems giving voices to 67 remarkable women of Scotland from thousands of years BC to 21st century women. A diverse range of women are represented through poetic monologues in Scots and English. This powerful, unique, well-researched collection is a new landmark in the fine tradition of Scottish women's writing from a renowned poet and performer. ; Contents: reconstructed head of a young woman -- Quines: Nessie -- Sgathach -- Teneu -- Unn the deep-minded -- Saint Margaret -- The Dwaum / Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan -- Queen o the bean / Mary Fleming -- The abdication of Mary Queen of Scots -- Nine hiaku for Esther Inglis -- A dochter's dreame / Elizabeth Melville -- The killing times / Margaret Wilson -- Columbine Cameron / Jea Cameron -- Hauf-hingit Maggie / Maggie dickson -- A curious herbal muses / Elizabeth Blackwell -- It's aye sang wi me / Caroline Oliphant, Lady Nairne -- Self-control promotes herself / Mary Brunton -- In her ninety-second year / Mary Somerville -- Captain Betsy Miller's fareweel tae Clytus -- Terpsichore reflects on her master / Maud Sulter -- Fanny Wright meditates on Mary Shelley's death -- Demerara / Eliza Junor -- Seeing red / Helen Macfarlane -- Oran Song / Mary MacPherson -- Mary Slessor takes St. Paul to task -- Janie Annan Slessor keeps vigil -- Horsehead Nebula speaks / Williamina Paton Gleming -- Scotland celebrates 3-0 at Easter Road -- My birth in her hands / Margaret Macdonald -- Skull / Mary Garden -- Rest time in the life class / Dorothy Johnstone -- Helen Crawfurd's memoirs in seven chapters -- The scaur / Ethel baxter -- Ma ain country / Violt Jacob -- Elsie Inglis prepares for her last journey -- Justice, persons and peace / Chrystal Macmillan -- The Red Duchess / Katharine Stewart-Murray -- Jain Haining -- ss Bonita praises Victoria Drummond -- The river kens Nancy Riach -- The penny pledge / Ena Lamont Stewart -- At Miss Eardley's / Joan Eardley -- Admiral of the Bering recalls Alaska / Isobel Wylie Hutchison -- The flyting of the red shoes and the blue shoes / Moira Shearer -- Anna buchan's obituary -- Mairi Anndra gives thanks to Margaret Fay Shaw -- I am Jennie Lee's open university -- All it takes / Margaret Blackwood -- The ballad of Craigmillar / Helen Crummy -- What a voice / Lizzie Higgins -- Margaret Tait's Portrait of Ga -- A Megan Boyd fishing fly for Prince Charles, July, 1981 -- Maggie's Centre, edinburgh, tells of its conception and growth / Maggie Keswick Jencks -- Daith salutes Margo MacDonald -- Kantha Sari heirloom / Mina Ray -- Orkney recalls Gunnnie / Gunnie Moberg -- The Living Mountain addresses a five pound banknote / Nan Shepher -- Rose stalks in snow / Christian Small -- And women's coalition danced / Elizabeth Meehan -- Tessa thinks the Scottish Poetry Library / Tessa Ransford - Epilogue: In Memoriam, Catriona White and Great Tapestry of Scotland stitchers -- Glossary (Scots and Gaelic) -- Further reading -- Index of quines ; ; FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book. …