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“By the time [Willa Muir] met Edwin at a mutual friend’s house in Glasgow, she was a lecturer in English, psychology and education and vice-principal of Gipsy Hill Teacher Training College in London…”

Robert Crawford Robert Crawford reviews Margery Palmer McCulloch’s Edwin & Willa Muir: A Literary Marriage, & Willa Muir’s The Usurpers, in the London Review of Books

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London Review of Books · Robert Crawford · Peerie Breeks: Willa and Edwin Muir‘I am a better translator than he is,’ Willa Muir complained in a 1953 journal. For several generations the couple...
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“The sociological insights of ‘Mrs Muttoe and the Top Storey’ are sharpened by their relevance to Britain’s pandemic response… Muir’s novel matches what current social scientists describe as ‘role overload’ in the ‘role strain theory’.”

—Re-Evaluating Willa Muir’s ‘Mrs Muttoe & the Top Storey’ in Light of COVID-19 Labour Disparities
Emily Pickard, SCOTTISH LITERRY REVIEW 14/1 (2022)

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muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE - Re-Evaluating Willa Muir’s ‘Mrs Muttoe and the Top Storey’ in Light of COVID-19 Labour Disparities
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“Most of the translation, especially Kafka, has been done by ME. Edwin only helped. And every time Edwin was referred to as THE translator, I was too proud to say anything; […] I am left without a shred of literary reputation”
—Willa Muir

Listen to the Dead Ladies Show podcast on Willa Muir

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The Dead Ladies Show · Podcast #34: Willa MuirIn Episode 34, we’re once more in Muenster as guests of the Burg Hülshoff Centre for Literature, which happens to be named after a Dead Lady poet, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff! This time around, we’…
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“Willa Muir […] is one of these ‘dangerous women’ whose courage, intelligence and imagination helped redefine women’s place in a changing society”
—Margery Palmer McCulloch on Willa Muir, for the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities’ “Dangerous Women” project

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dangerouswomenproject.org/2016

Dangerous Women ProjectWilla Muir - Scottish PEN - Dangerous Women ProjectIn our monthly post from Scottish PEN, Margery Palmer McCulloch shows how Willa Muir was "‘dangerous’ in the best creative and cultural sense of the word".
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“Had a fit of the scunners: heart withered up.”
—Willa Muir (1890–1970) was born #OTD, 13 March. Her translations of Kafka solidified his reputation in English, & then internationally

In this article, Prof Michelle Woods looks at Willa Muir—a Shetland translator in Prague

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thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/wi

The Bottle Imp · Willa Muir: a Shetland Translator in Prague - The Bottle ImpIn her archive at St Andrew’s, Willa Muir stored a clipping from The Scotsman, dated 24 May, 1947. “It was something of a shock, writes a colleague from Prague, to hear a Czech choir singing Ho Ro, mo Nighean Donn Bhoidheach – to say nothing of ‘Ca’ the Yowes tae the Knowes’ and other Scots […]
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Tweebronnen Public Library, Leuven, Belgium.

This library occupies the former Leuven Technical School compound, designed by renowned Modernist architect Henry van de Velde and built between 1937 and 1940. When the school closed in 1984, the building stood vacant until a grassroots campaign managed to save it. Since 2000, it serves both the Leuven city library and the town archives.

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