Giving “people like that” a Voice
Agnes Owens was born in Milngavie, near Glasgow, in 1926. After a couple of years of gruelling travel, “marching” around the Highlands of Scotland with husband and baby looking for work, pitching tents in strangers’ gardens and squatting condemned buildings, followed by intermittent jobs as typist,...
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Études écossaises
2009
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| Zusammenfassung: | Agnes Owens was born in Milngavie, near Glasgow, in 1926. After a couple of years of gruelling travel, “marching” around the Highlands of Scotland with husband and baby looking for work, pitching tents in strangers’ gardens and squatting condemned buildings, followed by intermittent jobs as typist, factory worker or cleaner, Agnes Owens began writing fiction in around 1973 when she joined her local creative writing class at the Vale, Alexandria. It was at this writing class – which she says ... |
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