Robert Chambers of Edinburgh : Victorian polymath and educator / Iris Macfarlane ; with Alan Macfarlane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macfarlane, Iris, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871.

Chambers, Robert.

W. & R. Chambers Ltd--History.

W. & R. Chambers Ltd.

Publishers and publishing--Scotland--Edinburgh--History--19th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Authors, Scottish--19th century--Biography.

Authors, Scottish.

History.

Scotland--Edinburgh.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 334 pages)

polychrome

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Iris Macfarlane, was born in Quetta, India (now Pakistan) in 1922. She was sent home to England and when she was sixteen was taken out to India in 1939. She learnt Assamese and translated Assamese folk-tales which were published as Tales and Legends from India (1965). She also wrote a children's novel about her daughters as The Children of Bird God Hill (1967). She studied Assamese and Indian history, which led to a number of articles in History Today, and the book The Black Hole; The Makingsof a Legend (1975).She moved the Hebridean island of North Uist. There she learnt Gaelic and published a book of translations of folk stories, The Mouth of the Night (1973). She also wrote another children's story, The Summer of the Lame Seagull (1970). She contributed over thirty articles of a 'Hebridean Journal' to the Scotsman recounting life on the croft. These have been published as And We in Dreams; A Hebridean Journal (2017). She wrote a number of short stories which were broadcast on the B.B.C. Later she wrote and an autobiographical history of four generations of her family as Daughters of the Empire: A Memoir of Life and Times in the British Raj (2006; republished 2011). Iris died in Wolverhampton in February 2007. Her selected poems, Love's Legacy, were published in 2017. Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities where he received two Master's degrees and two doctorates. He is the author of over forty books, including The Origins of English Individualism (1978) and Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (2005). He has worked in England, Nepal, Japan and China as both an historian and anthropologist. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986 and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Contents:

1. Preface 2. Childhood in Peebles 3. Early Education 4. The Dark Ages 5. The Early Struggle 6. The Antiquarian and Local Historian 7. The Folklorist 8. The Family Man 10. The Publisher and Social Observer 11. Publisher and Mass Educator 12. The Writing of Vestiges 14. The Reception of Vestiges 14. Biographer and Historian 15. The Whole Man 16. The Written Works of Robert Chambers 17. Selected Further Reading

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 10, 2020).

ISBN:

9781003097655

1003097650

9781000202267

1000202267

Publisher Number:

40030276877

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.