Jenni Calder (née Daiches) (born 1941) is a Scottish literary historian, and arts establishment figure.
Jenni Calder (née Daiches)
Born
1941
Chicago
Almamater
New Hall, University of Cambridge
Knownfor
Writer, poet
Children
Rachel, Gowan, and Gideon
Edinburgh based, she has been part of the Scottish literary community for many years. Her teaching and writing cover Scottish, English and American literary and historical subjects.
She has written 28 books on literary and historical subjects,[1][2] including biographies of Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Orwell and Naomi Mitchison and books on Scottish history and Scottish emigration. She has a particular research interest in emigration and the Scottish diaspora. She worked at the National Museums of Scotland from 1978 to 2001 and latterly as Head of Museum of Scotland International.[3] In 2003 she helped to organise the National Museums of Scotland's exhibition called 'Trailblazers - the Scots in Canada'.[4] She was president of Scottish PEN, a not-for-profit organisation that champions freedom of expression and literature across borders.[5]
She writes fiction and poetry as Jenni Daiches.[6]
She was formerly married to Angus Calder, and is the daughter of David Daiches a prominent Scottish, Jewish, writer, critic and historian. She was born in the US and spent time in Kenya. Her book Not Nebuchadnezzar is a partly a biography and a 'chronicle of the consuming search for that elusive concept known as 'identity''.[7] She has spoken out about anti-antisemitism[8]
On the question of Scottish independence; of 27 Scottish authors whose opinion was sought, Calder was one of only two offering a definite No.[9]
Jenni Calder at a literary event
Some works
Calder, Jenni (1968). Chronicles of Conscience: A Study of George Orwell and Arthur Koestler. ISBN082295205X.
There Must Be a Lone Ranger: The myth and reality of the American Wild West. Hamish Hamilton, 1974
Huxley Brave New World and Orwell Nineteen Eighty Four. Edward Arnold, 1976
Calder, Jenni (1976). Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction. Thames & Hudson Ltd. ISBN0500520011.
Calder, Jenni (1977). The Victorian Home. Batsford Ltd. ISBN0713408170.
Calder, Jenni (1977). Heroes: From Byron to Guevara. Haminsh Hamilton. ISBN0241895367.
Calder, Jenni (1980). RLS: Life Study Of Robert Louis Stevenson. Hamish Hamilton. ISBN9780241103746.
Stevenson and Victorian Scotland. Edinburgh University Press, 1984
Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four. Open University, 1988
The Wealth of a Nation. Publications Office, Edinburgh, 1989
Scotland in Trust: The National Trust for Scotland, 1990
Calder, Jenni (2017). Sir Walter Scott's Waverley. Luath Press Ltd. ISBN9781910021262.
Daiches, Jenni (2006). Letters from the Great Wall. ISBN9781905222513.
Calder, Jenni (2013). Lost in the Backwoods. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN9780748647392.
Calder, Jenni (2018). Essence of Edinburgh. Luath Press Ltd. ISBN9781912147540.
Calder, Jenni (2019). The Burning Glass. Sandstone Press Ltd. ISBN9781912240661.
Calder, Jenni (2013). The Scots in Canada. Luath Press Ltd. ISBN9781908373038.
"Of the 27, I counted 15 who would give a definite Yes to independence. Only two of the others – Jenni Calder and myself – give a definite No."
"Never knowingly understated".
Ken MacLeod, The Early Days of A Better Nation. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
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