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“Nothing could be so delightful as the style of living in Scotland; the people were so frank & gay, & the manners so easy & engaging…”

—Susan Ferrier’s MARRIAGE looks at what happens when notions of the Scottish meet cold, damp reality…


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asls.org.uk/publications/books

asls.org.ukAnnual Volume 47 (2017) – Association for Scottish Literature

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We republished Susan Ferrier’s MARRIAGE in 2020—using the text of the acid-sharp 1819 edition rather than the sentimentalised Victorian version of 1842. Read the first chapter free online here:


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yumpu.com/en/document/read/631

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“the foibles of the Scottish characters are usually much less detestable than those of the English”

Untrammelled by Theory: Susan Ferrier’s Polyphonic Vision of Scotland & the Union in MARRIAGE
—Benjamine Toussaint, Scottish Literary Review 8/1, 2016 – on Open Access via Project MUSE

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muse.jhu.edu/article/619276

Assoc for Scottish Literature

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“Miss Ferrier avowedly made thumb-nail sketches,—as is proved in one of the few surviving letters to or from her,—out of which grew the merciless caricatures that created her fame”

An 1893 article in The Atlantic Magazine, contrasting the careers of Susan Ferrier & Jane Austen

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theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

The Atlantic · Miss Austen and Miss FerrierBy Charles Townsend Copeland

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“THE INHERITANCE is, then, a novel concerned with questions of morality and education, but also national identity, the differences between Scottish and English cultures, and the stereotypes within human nature that both divide and unite the two. It is also very funny”

—The Books & Borrowing 1750–1830 Project on Susan Ferrier’s second novel, THE INHERITANCE

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borrowing.stir.ac.uk/forgotten

borrowing.stir.ac.ukBooks and Borrowing 1750-1830 :: Forgotten Best-Sellers: Susan Ferrier’s The Inheritance (1824)