Once the revelry of the city’s Hogmanay celebrations has dwindled, the Scottish author Val McDermid has a plan to “resurrect” a forgotten literary heroine – the 19th-century Scottish novelist Susan Edmonstone Ferrier. “As far as I know, there has never been an attempt to tell one story across 12 sites in one city.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Susan Ferrier once earned bigger publisher advances than Jane Austen. “I first came across Ferrier’s work when I was an undergraduate at Oxford,” said McDermid. The mystery of Ferrier’s disappearance from bookshelves, McDermid argues, is as much down to her subject matter as her gender. Susan Ferrier deserves better than this.”

Source: The Guardian December 30, 2017 20:26 UTC