130 Years
2023
Our President for 2023/4 was:
Penny Fielding
She gave the Toast to Sir Walter at our 114th Annual Dinner on 9th May 2024 in the New Club, Edinburgh.
Professor Penny Fielding is Grierson Chair of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She teaches Scottish literature of all periods, but particularly in the nineteenth century. Her books include
Writing and Orality, Scotland and the Fictions of Geography and the
Edinburgh Companion to Robert Louis Stevenson. She edited Scott's The Monastery for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, and she is a General Editor of the New Edinburgh Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson for which she is preparing the first modern edition of
The Dynamiter. Penny is co-director of Edinburgh University's research group
Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century (SWINC) and she is currently writing a book on Fiction and Espionage in Scotland from Scott to Spark.
You may also like:
Professor Penny Fielding: [The Bride of Lammermoor] (Chapter 35) The Ending
2011:
Dr. Penny Fielding - To The Lighthouses: Scott and the Stevensons in Orkney and Shetland
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