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Title

Fringe of gold : the Fife anthology / edited by Duncan Glen and Tom Hubbard.

Publication

Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Glen, Duncan, 1933-2008
• Hubbard, Tom

Description

xv, 219 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This is the first ever anthology of writing about Fife, a part of Scotland with an immensely rich tradition of history and literature. It gathers together all the great characters of Scottish history who have acted out their dramas within the famous Kingdom of Fife - St Margaret and Alexander I, James VI and the Earl of Moray, Cardinal Beaton and Archbishop Sharp, Mary, Queen of Scots and John Knox. Here too are the many great writers on Fife, from Robert Henryson to Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott to Thomas Carlyle, and right up to Joe Corrie and Ian Rankin." "All walks of life are represented here - the whalers of Kirkcaldy and the miners of Lindsay Colliery; ambulance drivers and Hammermen; witches and magicians; golfers and distillers. The background to their lives, the fine castles and quaint cottages, fishing villages and scenes of rural beauty are celebrated in wonderfully varied prose and poetry. Anyone who knows and loves Fife will find in this book a collection of vivid and entertaining writing that unfolds the full splendour of Scotland's 'fringe of gold'"--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• English literature > Scottish authors
• Scottish literature > Scotland > Fife
• Fife (Scotland) > Literary collections

Genre/Form

Literary collections

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-219).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Bridges, Ferries, Coaches, and the Railway: Bridging the Forth Estuary / Sheila Mackay -- The Forth Brig / T. S. Law -- Hey-Days of Stage Coaching / Peter and Carol Dean -- From a Railway Carriage Window. From Burntisland to the Tay in the 1890s / John R. Russell -- The Kingdom of Fife as seen in 1923 / John Geddie -- Specifics / Duncan Glen -- The Annuity / George Outram
• Kincardine to Culross and to Rosyth: Kincardine / John Geddie -- The Hammermen of Culross / Anonymous -- Inscription on a Headstone in Culross / Anonymous -- The Palace Lying in the Sandhaven of Culross / Peter Davidson -- Fife's Bridges Westwards from Dunfermline / Robin Smith -- High Valleyfield / William Hershaw -- Limekilns: Sunday May 9th, 1999 / A. M. Forster -- Admiral Beatty at Rosyth and Aberdour, 1914-18 / Charles Beatty -- The Surrendered German Fleet in the Firth of Forth 1918 / Charles Beatty
• Dunfermline: Saint Margaret, Queen of Scots / Stewart M. MacPherson -- Abbot House / Anonymous -- Inscription on lintel at the entrance to Abbot House / Anonymous -- Dunfermline Abbey / V. Gordon Childe and W. Douglas Simpson -- From The Testament of Cresseid / Robert Henryson -- The Retour o Troilus / Tom Hubbard -- The Bink / T. S. Law -- Odd Goings-on in Dunfermline Toun / George Bruce -- Begging Peacock, Dunfermline / Sally Evans -- From Moby Dick: For The Whale / Herman Melville -- City Development: Dunfermline as Town and City, 1904 ̃ / Patrick Geddes -- Dunfermline in my boyhood / Andrew Carnegie -- The Auld Grey Toun: A Story of Urban Decline / Ian Jack
• Inverkeithing to Kinghorn: Inverkeithing, 1963 / Lesley Scott-Moncrieff -- The Bonny Earl of Moray / Eric Simpson -- The Bonny Earl of Moray / Anonymous ballad -- Fordell, July 1856 / Anonymous -- St Bridget's Seventeenth-Century Kirk / Eric Simpson -- Sir Patrick Spens / Anonymous ballad -- A Cat in Aberdour / Charles Henry Ross -- St Fillan's Kirk, Aberdour / Glen L. Pride -- Inchcolm Abbey / V. Gordon Childe and W. Douglas Simpson -- Inchcolm / Alexander Hutchison -- Boswell and Dr. Johnson on Inchkeith / James Boswell -- Inchkeith: An Island of Dereliction, 1984 / Hamish Brown -- Pierre de Chastelard and Mary, Queen of Scots / Duncan Glen -- From A Letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons / Oliver Cromwell -- Mary fae Burntisland / Andrew McNeil -- Quhen Alexander our kynge was dede / Anonymous -- Kinghorn: Death of a King / Theo Lang -- From An Elegy on Patie Birnie / Allan Ramsay
• West Fife's Towns and Proudest Industry :From Licht Attoore the Face / T. S. Law -- The Culture of Fife Miners / Dan Imrie -- A Lakota Sioux in Cowdenbeath High Street, 23rd August 1904 / William Hershaw -- 6 Cowdenbeath Koipu / Ian W. King -- The Old Arcade / Jennie Lee -- The Kelty Clippie / John Watt -- A Piper of Lochgelly, 1812 / John Simpkins -- Hill of Benarty / Anonymous -- From Gagarin Way / Gregory Burke -- The Image o'God / Joe Corrie -- Scottish Pride / Joe Corrie -- For Joe Corrie / William Hershaw -- From Rebus's Scotland: Court and Spark / Ian Rankin
• Auchtertool to Kirkcaldy, Dysart, Wemyss, Methil, Buckhaven and Leven: St. Andrew in the Window / Andy Shanks and Jim Russell -- Letters from Auchtertool and Edinburgh / Jane Welsh Carlyle -- School in Linktown, Kirkcaldy / Anonymous -- From Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile / Herman Melville -- Kirkcaldy of Grange / Robert Lyndsay of Pitscottie -- At Seafield, Fife (1984) / Tom Hubbard -- Kirkcaldy Vennel / Maureen Sangster -- Michael Scot (or Scott) / Ronnie Wood -- Mephistophelean Ballant-Scherzo on Ane Fife Legend / Tom Hubbard -- Some says the Deil's daid / Anonymous -- From Reminiscences / Thomas Carlyle -- Marjorie Fleming: The Wonder Child / Mark Twain -- From Marjory's Book / Marjory Fleming -- Invitation to the Voyage: Fife Child in the Fifties / Tom Hubbard -- By the Sea / Duncan Glen -- Kunst = Kapital, Art = Wealth / Richard Demarco -- From The Wealth of Nations / Adam Smith -- Whaling: The Maritime History of Kirkcaldy District / Anonymous -- The Boy in the Train / M. C. Smith -- Melvilles of Kirkcaldy and Raith / D. P. Thomson -- The St Clairs of Ravenscraig Castle and Roslin Chapel / A. H. Millar -- At Ravenscraig Castle / Hans Christian Andersen -- Rosabelle from The Lay of the Last Minstrel / Walter Scott -- Val McDermid / Lillian King -- Dysart for coal and saut / Anonymous -- Dysart. From A Lost Lady of Old Years / John Buchan -- Deserta / George Buchanan and Tom Hubbard -- The Man in the Rock / Elise McKay -- Hey Ca' Thro' / Robert Burns -- Letter to General Wemyss / Alex Campbell -- From Joseph Knight / James Robertson -- Origin of Wemyss Caves / John Simpson -- Methil Herbure, 1664; and Invasion, 1667, at Burntisland and Buckhaven / David and Second Earl of Wemyss -- The Barbar o Methil / John Brewster -- Letter to Mrs Sitwell / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Ambulance Driver with the Fife Voluntary Aid Detachment of the Red Cross / Elizabeth Kendzia -- Last Chance / Eleanor Livingstone
• By the Rivers Leven, Ore and Eden: Leven and Ore Valleys / Glen L. Pride -- The Cut on the River Leven / G. P. Bennett -- From At Chrystis Kirk on the Grene / Anonymous -- Leslie / Anonymous -- Markinch / Theo Lang -- From Walkin in Fife / Duncan Glen -- Lairds in the Markinch District of Fife / Anonymous -- Kirkforthar / Ian Nimmo White -- The Maidenbore Rock / Alan Bold -- The Haig Distilleries / James Laver -- By Balgriebank and Bighty, above Baintown / A. M. Findlay -- Archbishop Sharp's Journey from Kennoway to Magus Muir / Duncan Glen -- An Account of the Murder of Archbishop Sharp / James Russell -- The Murderers at Magus Muir / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Murder of David, Duke of Rothesay / Walter Scott -- Nae Bield in Falkland / Lillias Scott Forbes -- From The Dreme: To King James V / David Lyndsay of the Mount -- The Last Days of King James V / Robert Lyndsay of Pitscottie -- Och, awa to Freuchie and fry mice / Anonymous -- Lomond Hills / Theo Lang --^
• Jenny Nettles / Anonymous -- From A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle / Hugh MacDiarmid -- From Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner / James Hogg -- The Wee Cooper of Fife / Anonymous -- Jimmy [Shand] in a Nutshell / Kenneth Roy -- MacDuff's Cross / Walter Scott -- Lindores Loch / Anonymous -- Two Rural Ruined Churches: St Magridin's (Old Parish) Church, Abdie, and Monimail Old Parish Church / Duncan Glen -- Ye loadin pilgrims ... / Inscription -- My dear Brother, with courage beare the crosse / Elizabeth Melville and Lady Culross -- Collessie and Monimail to Cupar / T. G. Snoddy -- "Proclamatioun" on Castle Hill, Cupar / David Lyndsay of the Mount -- From Marmion / Walter Scott -- (Henrietta Keddie): Cupar. From Logie Town / Sarah Tytler -- Encounter / Duncan Glen -- Cults Kirk, near Pitlessie, and Sir David Wilkie / Karen Garland -- Scotstarvit Tower / John Deacon -- Truly Ceres / Duncan Glen -- Ceres, Scotland / T. S. Law --^
• From The Historie of Ane Nobil and Vailyeand Squyer William Meldrum / David Lyndsay of the Mount -- The Walled Garden of Kellie Castle / Kathleen Sayer -- From A Letter to Sir Walter Scott / Anne Lindsay Barnard -- Auld Robin Gray / Anne Lindsay Barnard -- Newburn Old Parish Church / Duncan Glen
• The East Neuk: Little Towns of the East Neuk / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Beachcomber / Gordon Meade -- East Neuk / Tom Watson -- The Staunan Stanes / Sydney Goodsir Smith -- The Coast of Fife / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Alexander Selkirk, of Lower Largo / Spence Oliphant -- Largo / Sydney Goodsir Smith -- The Boatie Row / Anonymous -- The Messenger an' Me / Tom Watson -- Ruminant / Tom Watson -- A Ferry Crossing from North Berwick to Elie, 1586 / James Melville -- St Monans and Swine / Duncan Glen -- St Monans / John Brewster -- Homer Country / Duncan Glen -- A Witch of Pittenweem / Anonymous -- Pittenweem Beach / Anna Crowe -- The Porteous Riots / Duncan Glen -- The Spaniards of the Armada at Anstruther, 1588 / James Melville -- High Jinks in Anstruther / Forbes MacGregor -- Maggie Lauder / Francis Sempill -- From Anster Fair / William Tennant -- Anstruther: Mr. Thomson, the 'curat' / Robert Louis Stevenson -- From Back-Green Odyssey / Alastair Mackie -- On Cementing Level the Stable Floor at the Old Manse, Wester Anstruther, St Swithin's Day, 1963 / Forbes MacGregor -- From Dark-Age East Fife to Mediaeval Kilrenny / Harry D. Watson -- Shipwright's Spehl / Christopher Rush -- Reflections in Crail / Margaret Gillies Brown -- The Coves of Crail / William Sharp -- A Wish / Mikhail Lermontov and Tom Hubbard -- Fulmars at Crail / Gordon Jarvie -- The Arrival of Mary of Guise-Lorraii Second Wife of King James V, at Fifeness, in June 1538 / Robert Lyndsay of Pitscottie
• Across Country to Leuchars and the Tay -- Dunino: The Den, Pagan and Early Christian Worship / D. and L. McGilp -- From Dunino / Stephen Scobie -- God's Own Scholar / David Grant -- Thinkin and Daein Inscription from the painted ceiling of the long gallery of Earlshall, near Leuchars / Harvey Holton -- Earlshall Garden / Robert Lorimer -- Northwards from St Andrews / John Geddie
• St Andrews: Northern Roses / Lajos Aprily, Tom Hubbard and Attila Dosa -- Scottish Muid / Lajos Aprily, Tom Hubbard and Attila Dosa -- The Fife Laird / Carolina Oliphant and Lady Nairne -- The Inheritance of the Fife Laird / Anonymous -- In St Andrews / Samuel Johnson -- From A Monk of Fife / Andrew Lang -- From The Library Window / Margaret Oliphant -- Brand the Builder / Tom Scott -- Golfing at St Andrews / Cockburñ -- Among the St Andrews Golfers in 1874 / Jonathan Oldbuck -- Jo Grimond's St Andrews / Jo Grimond -- Willa and Edwin Muir in St Andrews in the 1930s / Willa Muir -- St Andrews, June 1946 / George Bruce -- At School / Tessa Ransford -- Bob Dylan's Honorary Doctorate / Shirley McKay -- Elegy, On the Death of Mr. David Gregory, Late Professor of Mathematics in the University of St Andrews / Robert Fergusson -- On the Murder of Cardinal Beaton in St Andrews / John Knox -- John Knox in St Andrews, 1571 and 1574 / James Melville -- From Papistry Storm'd / William Tennant -- Last Lauch / Douglas Young -- From An Eclogue. To the Memory of Dr. William Wilkie / Robert Fergusson -- Gateway to the Sea (1) / George Bruce.

ISBN

• 9781841587042 (pbk.)
• 1841587044 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008399061

OCLC

• 190967793
• SCSB-12881855

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library