Jenni Calder

Updated on Nov 21, 2023

Edit

Comment

Name Jenni Calder Role Historian		Parents David Daiches Spouse Angus Calder (m. 1963)
Books Women and marriage, Scots in Canada, Scots in the USA, The nine lives of Naomi Mi, Not Nebuchadnezzar Similar People David Daiches, Angus Calder, Peter Ritchie Calder, Robert Louis Stevenson, Margaret Oliphant

Jenni Calder (née Daiches) (born 1941) is a Scottish literary historian, and arts establishment figure. She was formerly married to Angus Calder, and is the daughter of David Daiches. She also once ran the Edinburgh Book Festival.

Calder is opposed to Scottish independence.

Some works

Chronicles of Conscience. A Study of George Orwell and Arthur Koestler. Secker & Warburg, 1968

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. Book Club Associates, 1977

Heroes: From Byron to Guevara. Hamish Hamilton, 1977

RLS: A Life Study of Robert Louis Stevenson. Hamish Hamilton, 1980

Stevenson and Victorian Scotland. Edinburgh University Press, 1984

Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four. Open University, 1988

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

The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison. Virago, 1997

Scots in the USA. Luath Press, 2006

Not Nebuchadnezzar. Luath Press

References

Jenni Calder Wikipedia

(Text) CC BY-SA