Our recent display celebrating notable Orcadian women (see post for September 4th) was so popular that, when we put up the new B.B.C. display, we decided to move the Orcadian women through to Stromness for a while.
You will be able to see the display at Stromness library from tommorrow (6th October) onwards.
The exhibition features Ann Scott Moncrieff (pictured), an Orcadian writer of poems, short stories and children's books who is thought to have inspired the character Greta in Margaret Tait's film 'Blue Black Permanent'. We have some very moving, unpublished poems of Moncrieff's in the archive; one of which, 'Lines' is included in the display.
Margaret Tait is also represented in the display of brief biographies, letters, poems, photographs, census information and newspaper clippings.
Anyone know where her poems may be found?
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