This project will feature an online bibliography of Scottish life-writing texts, with an initial focus on works about care experience. Details will be published here in due course…
In the meantime, here are some useful secondary sources:
- Arfuch, L. Memory and Autobiography: Explorations at the Limits trans. Christina MacSweeney (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020 [2013]).
- Ender, E. Architexts of Memory: Literature, Science, and Autobiography (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005).
- Fyfe, J. G., ed. Scottish Diaries and Memoirs, 1746–1843 (Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1942).
- Lamont, C. ‘Haste Ye Back: Dorothy K. Haynes and the importance of childhood memory’, The Bottle Imp (2024). Link.
- Lindsay, Maurice, ed. As I Remember: Ten Scottish Authors Recall How Writing Began for Them (London: Hale, 1979).