A Scottish Woman and Her Land - Nan Shepherd’s The Grampian Quartet

Fall (14 hours or more) | This course is completed

10 Hilton Field Road Hanover, NH 03755 United States

Founders Room

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9/25/2017-11/13/2017

11:30 AM-1:30 PM EDT on Mon

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$80.00

8 sessions, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Mondays, September 25 through November 13, 2017
DOC House - Hanover, NH
Course Fee: $80

The Grampian Quartet by Nan Shepherd is one of the great classics of Scottish literature. The three novels and one prose meditation are set in the same North-East land and language as Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scot’s Quair, and share its lyrical, poetic love of place. The Quarry Wood is set in the early years of the 20th Century and follows the life of Martha Ironside as she navigates a woman’s choices through adolescence, education and womanhood. The Weatherhouse chronicles a community of women, their lives and loves, dealings with the Church, fantasy and spirituality. A Pass in the Grampians sets the contrasting lives and choices of two women from rural Aberdeenshire beside each other. The last book, The Living Mountain, is a love-song to the Cairngorm Mountains, a range Nan Shepherd knew intimately, and sought to explore her relationship to, in what is one of the great environmental books of the 20th Century. The writing is rich with the color and music of North-East Scotland’s dialect but is quite accessible with the included glossary and a Scots dictionary.

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Shivas, Anne

Anne Shivas is a Scot, a poet, and a Vermont resident. She grew up in and received her BEd (Hons) in Edinburgh and her MA in Philosophy of Education in London. She lived in Jerusalem, Israel for ten years before coming to the Upper Valley. She completed an MFA in poetry at Drew University in 2011. She has taught many previous Osher classes on Scottish poetry and literature.