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	Paper2
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon remains one of the paradoxes of the Scottish Literary Renaissance.
		Gibbon’s emphasis on a realistic portrait of the countryside reflects a regionalist trend characteristic of western writing in the inter-war period.
		Gibbon appears to have agreed that the industrial worker was as central to Scottish experience as agricultural and smalltown existences.
	www.grassicgibbon.com /paper2.htm (3955 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon is one of Scotland's most famous authors and hails from the Northeast.
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon had a great feeling for the countryside of the north, believing that civilisation was at its peak during the circle-building era of the Bronze Age.
		Although it is impossible to say that Lewis Grassic Gibbon would have gone on to make an enormous impact on twentieth century English literature it seems a terrible shame that like so many talented men he had such a short life.
	www.webscot.co.uk /greatscots/grassicgibbon.htm (396 words)

	BBC - Writing Scotland - Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Works
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon is the more distinctly Scottish alter-ego of James Leslie Mitchell, and although there are many interesting books written under the Mitchell name, the writer’s best and most enduring works were published under the name Gibbon.
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon's most famous work and indeed his greatest achievement is A Scots Quair.
		Gibbon's other most enjoyable work is probably his short story 'Smeddum' which describes the life of the lively Meg and the conflict with her children, and his essay on 'The Land' which helps to describe his love-hate relationship with the land.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/writers/lewis_grassic_gibbon/works.shtml (834 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935), born James Leslie Mitchell was a Scottish writer.
		Although not recognised during the author's lifetime, his trilogy entitled A Scots Quair, and in particular its first book Sunset Song, is considered to be among the defining works of 20th century Scottish Renaissance.
		The Grassic Gibbon Centre was established in Arbuthnott in 1991 to commemorate the author's life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lewis_Grassic_Gibbon (290 words)

	BBC - Writing Scotland - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon was born James Leslie Mitchell at the dawn of the twentieth century in 1901 in Aberdeenshire.
		Spending most of his childhood in Arbuthnott, a farming community in the Mearns, his family and community's tie to the land was to create a love-hate relationship between this area and the writer which lasted until his early death in 1935.
		The most important of this author’s vast output in such a small amount of time is the trilogy of novels, A Scots Quair published under the name Lewis Grassic Gibbon (taken from the author's mother's maiden name).
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/writers/lewis_grassic_gibbon (328 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon
		Grassic Gibbon's was from 1928, when he left the army, till his shockingly early death from peritonitis in February 1935.
		The period in which Grassic Gibbon wrote the trilogy was the aftermath of the betrayal of British Labour by Ramsay MacDonald and the other apostates of the second labour government: 'But sign news came that fair raised a stir--a Labour government thrown out at last.
		Grassic Gibbon himself in a letter to a friend in November 1934, shortly before he died, wrote, 'I'm not an official Communist as they won't let me in'.
	pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /sr258/foot.htm (1826 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Gibbons, like the great apes (gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees, and bonobos), have a humanlike build and no tail, but gibbons seem to lack higher cognitive abilities and self-awareness.
		Gibbon was born at Putney in Surrey, England, on May 8, 1737.
		In 1898 an admiring biographer called Edward Gibbon Wakefield a “builder of the British Commonwealth” because of his efforts at colonizing Australia and New Zealand.The reputation is somewhat overblown: Wakefield, through his propaganda efforts, was responsible for no more than 6 percent of the 2 million migrants who left the British Isles between 1830 and...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9036740 (804 words)

	Paper3
		The only connection Benholm mill had with Lewis Grassic Gibbon was that the BBC filmed the mill scenes there for their television dramatisation of Sunset Song in the early 70’s.
		If the Council were interested in a Grassic Gibbon exhibition then is should be situated in Arbuthnott and no-where else (well perhaps Auchterless could be seen to have a little bit of a claim as well).
		However, despite my personal feelings about Lewis Grassic Gibbon, he is not placed on a pedestal in the Centre; visitors are given information about him and then they make up their own minds.
	www.grassicgibbon.com /paper3.htm (3712 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon lived from 13 February 1901 to 7 February 1935.
		Gibbon also produced two books that can be classified as science fiction, a book inspired by his travels in the Middle East, a biography of Mungo Park, and a variety of other work.
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon died of peritonitis brought on by a perforated ulcer at the beginning of 1935.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /usbiography/biographies/lewisgrassicgibbon.html (522 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For although all the Grassic Gibbon characters are grounded on reality, and based on experience and observation, creative instinct and poetic insight are of paramount importance.
		Chris is the creature of Grassic Gibbon, she is his voice, and also the voice of the Scottish earth.
		Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 224 pp.
	www.geologica.u-net.com /dks-web-pages/gibbon.html (838 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon
		Gibbon was born at Auchterless near Turriff, in 1901, but his family moved to Arbuthnott while he was still a youngster.
		The couple moved to London where their early married life is said to have bean hard with cheap lodgings and city landlords breathing down their necks.
		By the time the Mitchell's had moved to Welwyn Garden City in 1931, Mitchell was an established author, with short stories, novels and essays published widely under both James Leslie Mitchell and Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
	www.mearns.org.uk /stonehaven/grassic.htm (507 words)

	ALSL Conference
		A collection of essays to celebrate both the centenary and the literary achievement of Lewis Grassic Gibbon will be published in June of this year by the Association of Scottish Literary Studies with the support of The Grassic Gibbon Centre at Arbuthnott.
		Grassic Gibbon is probably the best known and most loved of the major writers of the twentieth-century interwar literary revival, with his Sunset Song appearing regularly among listings of the most popular Scottish books.
		So far as Gibbon’s contemporary reputation is concerned, our collection of essays appears to suggest that his major fictional achievement lies with his Scottish work - something that was not so clear, especially to the writer himself, in his own time.
	www.grassicgibbon.com /ASLSConference.htm (547 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon Biography / Profile
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pen name of James Leslie Mitchell, born the youngest of three sons in a farming family in northeast Scotland.
		(Gibbon published under both the pen name and his own name but is best known by the former.) Although “the land” is central to his writings, from his geographical studies to his Scottish fiction, he personally despised the hard labor of the farming life and the stern demands of his father.
		His mother, Lilias Grassic Gibbon, always encouraged his reading interests, which were also supported by the local schoolmaster and parish minister, who loaned...
	www.enotes.com /salem-lit/lewis-grassic-gibbon (126 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Wikipedia
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon (13t Februar 1901 - 7t Februar 1935), born James Leslie Mitchell wis a Scots owthor.
		The leid he wrate in wis Inglis; the dialogue o his characters is meant tae be read as Scots, but is written in an Inglish-like kin o wey for tae mak readin mair eith for Inglish readers.
		The Grassic Gibbon Centre wis estaiblisht in Arbuthnott in 1991 for tae commemorate the author's life.
	sco.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lewis_Grassic_Gibbon (272 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon
		'Lewis Grassic Gibbon' was the pen-name of James Leslie Mitchell.
		Influenced by his military experiences in the Middle East during the 1920s, he originally wrote a number of historical novels under his own name but for his most memorable work, the Scots Quair trilogy, he returned to his native Aberdeenshire for inspiration.
		Grassic Gibbon is often cited as an inspiration by subsequent generations of Scottish writers.
	www.visitscotland.com /library/LewisGrassicGibon (97 words)

	Author
		The people and places, sights, smells and sounds from this time, etched on his memory, were to be recreated with vivid imaginative power many years later in the fiction of Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon - the famous pen name of James Leslie Mitchell - is acclaimed the world over for stories and novels of great power and originality.
		The Grassic Gibbon Centre at Arbuthnott was established in 1991 as a community based and community run charity designed to promote the work of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
	www.grassicgibbon.com /author.htm (675 words)

	Paul Foot: Poet of the Granite City (2001)
		And this was not a coincidence, since Grassic Gibbon was an unreconstructed Shelleyan and had even named one of his novels Stained Radiance, a quote from Adonais, Shelley’s mournful obituary to John Keats.
		In fact it represents Grassic Gibbon’s ability to reflect the ordinary language of ordinary Scottish people that makes the trilogy so much superior to the comparatively flat narrative of his other novels.
		In an essay on MacDonald in 1932, Grassic Gibbon got down to the roots to topple the old poseur, remarking that he ‘never penetrated words with the process of thought’.
	www.marxists.org /archive/foot-paul/2001/12/gibbon.htm (1921 words)

	Sunset Song: Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Sunset Song
		LEWIS GRASSIC GIBBON (James Leslie Mitchell, 1901-35) was born in Auchterless in Aberdeenshire, but spent his childhood largely in the area of Arbuthnott in the Mearns, where his father rented a croft (Bloomfield) and where he and his brothers attended the local school.
		The Grassic Gibbon centre's opening, and the celebrations planned for 2001 to mark the centenary, are some indication that the years of neglect are past.
		They can see the dramatic adaptation, and be drawn to the originals as many were by the televised version.Lewis Grassic Gibbon weaves his own spell on his readers.
	www.ltscotland.org.uk /sunsetsong/book/author.asp (1927 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A Scots Quair: "Sunset Song", "Cloud Howe" and "Grey Granite" (Canongate Classics): Books: Lewis Grassic ...
		It is impossible not to be carried to 'Kinraddie', in the beautiful descriptive language that Gibbon uses to capture the beauty of what could be many areas in Scotland.
		This book has everything, the joy and sorrow of the 3 ages of chris guthrie..from child to young lover and mother, to widowed mother of a young man in a revolutionary new scotland, the terrible loss of the great war, the pain of childbirth and the tale of the land which chris loves.
		Gibbon tells a story that is alive with an affirmation of life.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Scots-Quair-Granite-Canongate-Classics/dp/0862415322 (603 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon's "Sunset Song" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Grassic Gibbons 'Sunset Song' is increasingly recognised as a great novel, and is now used as a 'set book' for Scottish school exams.
		The way Gibbon thought about the modern life in the early 1900's was just amazing.
		Through the structure of the novel the main themes are clealy shown to me, the end of a way of life, Nothing Endures and the love of the land.
	www.armchairfans.co.uk /books/0950262994 (163 words)

	BookkooB: Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
		The last chapter of the book, finally closing the circle of time created by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, is one of hope and although reflective and, at times, emotional, never looks back to lament for those things that have gone.
		Gibbon creates a number of strong memorable characters, Chris, Chae, Long Rob of The Mill who bring the whole thing life, by the end I felt I had known them all personally.
		The coming of the WW1 heralds the end of the way of life that the village had known for generations.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0862411793.htm (1295 words)

	Powell's Books - The Lost Trumpet (Polygon Lewis Grassic Gibbon) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
		In this novel, published for the first time since 1932, the characters are all drawn to the deserts of Egypt, by the legendary Lost Trumpet, which was believed to have blown down the walls of Jericho.
		A lesser-known side to Gibbon's fiction is his passion for writing about the world of history, archaeology, and myth.
		In this novel, the characters are all drawn to the deserts of Egypt, by the legendary Lost Trumpet, which was believed to have blown down the walls of Jericho.
	www.powells.com /biblio?partner_id=719&cgi=product&isbn=0748662952 (182 words)

	Gibbon, Lewis Grassic Arts, Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon: How I Discovered the Connection Article by Dave Smythe, describing his grandfather's friendship with the writer.
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre Located in Arbuthnott, Laurencekirk, Scotland.
		Slainte.org: Lewis Grassic Gibbon Biography and introduction to his works.
	www.indiapolicyinstitute.org /aW5kXzgzNzgxNA==.aspx (79 words)

	CriticalWorks
		The database was originally created in August, 2000 and remains the copyright of The Grassic Gibbon Centre.
		Carruthers, Gerard, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon and the Scottish Enlightenment’, in
		Whittington, Graeme, ‘The Regionalism of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’, in
	www.grassicgibbon.com /criticalworks.htm (4796 words)

	Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Undiscovered Scotland Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first, and usually considered the best, of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's trilogy of books that appeared between 1932 and 1934, which became known as "A Scots Quair", Sunset Song is a superb free-standing novel.
		It is sobering to have it brought home so graphically that the names that appear on war memorials in every Scottish village each represent real people with friends, family and neighbours: people who in some cases you have come to know very well.
		It is written in an artificial language of English with a liberal sprinkling of Scots words: enough to add atmosphere, but not enough to deter an English readership (and there is a glossary at the back).
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /usreviews/books/1841957569.html (393 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon
		Family tree - Gibbon - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
		There is NO tradition of any connection between these Gibbons and the Scottish writer "Lewis Grassic Gibbon", but it is interesting that he descends from Gibbons in the same general area of Scotland:
		the Scottish writer "Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (adopted names of his mother's and grandmother's families),
	humphrysfamilytree.com /Gibbon/grassic.gibbon.html (132 words)

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	www.dustybooks.co.uk /gibbon-lewis-grassic.html (208 words)

	Amazon.com: Sunset Song: Books: Lewis Grassic Gibbon,Ian Campbell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I so much agree with the other Scottish reviewer who said that Gibbon (who lends his name to one of the characters) stretches out simple sentences over 2 paragraphs.
		Gibbon's command of the english language is also shockingly bad.
		Sunset Song, by Lewis Grassic Gibbon is one of the most moving novels I have ever read in my life.
	www.amazon.com /Sunset-Song-Lewis-Grassic-Gibbon/dp/1904598668 (1492 words)

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