Oh, Crystal, here I am, a native of southern Indiana, female, but I absolutely
LOVE books about Scotland, especially historical fiction. I truly wish we had more Scottish readers! (I'm part Scottish, so it's a genealogical/family pride thing for me, but it's been a
long time since my ancestor came to America! LOL) I like British historical fiction too. Commercially, I'm not at all suited to those books, but here I can definitely help record them!
In fact, if anyone who's been here much longer than I have can point me to some more Scottish authors (or any authors who wrote about Scotland), I'd be very grateful.

I know about George MacDonald. (Whether or not the readers are Brits or Scots.) I'd love to find some PD authors I haven't discovered yet. It's tough to search for books about Scotland in the catalog. Of course, there are Robert Burns's poems, and some of them are read
beautifully by, for example, paradise.camaflouge (I wish he'd come back!!), & others too, of course.
And, speaking of Burns, a poet named Allan Ramsay actually came before him & brought back (if I understand what I've read correctly), the Scottish "language" (or "vernacular")
before Burns did!

Oh, btw, he's either one of my grandfathers or an uncle.

I just can't get that last piece of information I need to find out *sigh* (he lived from 1658-1786 & was an influence on Burns). If I could read old Scots language (I wouldn't be good at it), I'd record his poem, "Gi'e Me a Lass with a Lump of Land"! The title alone cracks me up! LOL

I have a book about him that's
over 200 years old that includes some of his poems. I also have an old copy of
The Gentle Shepherd, his pastoral comedy.
Oops, I've gone way off topic in this thread. Sorry!
Just call me the Rambling Queen!
Joy

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