Summary
AS THE first biographer of Neil Munro, I read Michael Russell's article, Those vital sparks of life, with mixed feelings, not least because you have yet to review my book, Neil Munro: The Biography (House of Lochar, 2004) .
Several points in Mr Russell's interpretation puzzle me. For instance, he says that Munro was "an active advocate of emigration for the landless poor". But all he did in that line was to write one or two articles describing emigrants leaving Scotland. In one he says: "It seemed incredible that there should be any economic reason for such men and women leaving this country . . . It was positively disquieting to see with what sangfroid the depopulation of Scotland was proceeding" (The Looker-On, 1933).See the full content of this document
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Author of the First Highland Novel by an 'Insider'
Mr Russell quotes Lorn Macintyre pointing out that "a revisionist reading" of the Para ...
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