Jenni Calder

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Jenni Calder (born in Chicago in 1941 ) is a British literary historian .

Life

Jenni Calder is the daughter of the literary critic David Daiches , who served at the British Embassy in the United States during World War II and returned to Cambridge in 1951, and a Scottish woman. She studied at New Hall , Cambridge , and received an MPhil from Birkbeck , London. She married the historian Angus Calder , son of Peter Ritchie Calder , they have two daughters and a son, the marriage was divorced.

Calder has worked in Scotland as a freelance writer and lecturer since 1971. She stayed in Kenya for three years . Between 1978 and 2001 she held various positions at the National Museum of Scotland . At times she directed the Edinburgh Book Festival .

Her historical and literary critical work focuses on Scottish subjects, such as the emigration of Scots to the New World, the writer RL Stevenson and female authors. She has published several anthologies of poetry. Calder also writes poems, which she publishes under her maiden name Jenni Daiches.

Fonts (selection)

Jenni Calder: The Victorian Home (1977)
  • Chronicles of Conscience. A Study of George Orwell and Arthur Koestler . London: Secker & Warburg, 1968
  • with Angus Calder: Scott . London: Evans, 1969
  • There Must Be a Lone Ranger: The myth and reality of the American Wild West . Hamish Hamilton, 1974
  • Huxley Brave New World and Orwell Nineteen Eighty Four . Edward Arnold, 1976
  • Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction . Thames and Hudson, 1976
  • The Victorian Home . London: Batsford, 1977
  • Heroes: From Byron to Guevara . Hamish Hamilton, 1977
  • RLS: A Life Study of Robert Louis Stevenson . Hamish Hamilton, 1980
  • (Ed.): Stevenson and Victorian Scotland . Edinburgh University Press, 1981
  • The Hero as Lover: Byron and Women , in: Alan Bold (Ed.): Byron: wrath and rhyme . London: Vision, 1983, pp. 103-124
  • Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four . Open University, 1988
  • Ed .: The Wealth of a Nation . Publications Office, Edinburgh, 1989
  • Scotland in Trust: The National Trust for Scotland , 1990
  • The Story of the Scottish Soldier, 1600-1914 . National Museums of Scotland, 1992
  • Enterprising Scot: Scottish Adventure and Achievemt . National Museums of Scotland, 1995
  • Jenni Daiches: Mediterranean . Poems. Scottish Cultural Press, 1995
  • The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison . Biography. Virago, 1997
  • Reading, writing and reverberations . 2003 [about her father]
  • Distress Nebuchadnezzar . Autobiography. Luath Press, 2005
  • Jenni Daiches: Smoke . Poems about the Holocaust. Kettillonia, 2005
  • Scots in the USA . Luath Press, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jenni Calder , at booksfromscotland
personal data
SURNAME Calder, Jenni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daiches, Jenni (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British literary historian and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago