![]() ![]() ![]() The first edition of 1,500 copies sold out within six months at a guinea a time, although at first many readers believed it had been written by Scott. Her first work, Marriage, was written in 1810 but was published eight years later anonymously by the Edinburgh publisher William Blackwood. “We were studying the early development of the novel, and I was interested in finding out if there were any Scottish writers working in that form then.”įerrier’s work was “wildly popular in her lifetime”, according to McDermid. ![]() “I first came across Ferrier’s work when I was an undergraduate at Oxford,” said McDermid. McDermid, who promises her story will also offer a few of her characteristically gruesome themes, said she was determined to re-establish Ferrier’s reputation so that one day she might stand alongside the male literary giants who have lived and worked in the city, such as Scott, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas De Quincey, and as a worthy predecessor to Edinburgh’s acclaimed female novelists Muriel Spark and JK Rowling. Photograph: Paul Fearn / Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Stock Photo Susan Ferrier once earned bigger publisher advances than Jane Austen. ![]()
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