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This is the story of a literary marriage. It tells of the partnership between Edwin and Willa Muir, two intellectuals from small town Scottish backgrounds and their discovery of Europe in the years after the first and second world wars. It tells us about the cultural, social, and political issues of those dynamic and difficult years and much else, in intimate detail, about their own personal struggles. Edwin Muir was to become a leading poet in the twentieth century Scottish literary renaissance, but to make a living the couple also worked as translators of modern German literature, including key works by Hermann Broch and, most famously, Franz Kafka. They were intimate with many of the leading writers of their time, both at home and abroad, and these contacts, and their travels in Europe gave them a special and sometimes painful insight into the trials of the twentieth century.
Dr Margery McCulloch's study draws on personal travel and a wealth of new sources from private correspondence, publishers' archives, the recollections of friends, and the diaries, unpublished journals, and autobiographical memoirs of Edwin and Willa themselves. This is the fullest account of the couple's life and times together during a long and loving marriage, not without its difficulties as Willa struggled to find proper acknowledgement of her translation skills, and space for her own creativity as a novelist in the shadow of her own ill health and Edwin's growing status as a major modern poet.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1: Coming Together
ADVENTURING IN EUROPE
2: Prague and a New Czech Republic
3: Elbflorenz
4: 'North and South'
5: Fête du Citron
PUTTING DOWN ROOTS
6: Early Writings
7: Willa and Womanhood
8: Crowborough and Literary Life
THE POLITICAL THIRTIES
9: Changing Worlds and a Hampstead Idyll
10: Scottish Journeys
11: Scotland and Europe
12: Translating for a Living
A SINGLE, DISUNITED WORLD
13: World War Two in St Andrews
14: Edinburgh and New Poetry
15: The Cold War and Prague Again
16: Roman Interlude
17: Newbattle Abbey
A NEW WORLD
18: American Adventure
19: Swaffham Prior
20: Willa Alone
21: Last Years
