130 Years
Something to Write Home About: Surprising Stories in Abbotsford Guest Books
On Thursday 8th October 2015 we had a Joint Lecture with the English Literature Dept of Edinburgh University.
Professor Caroline McCracken-Flesher was introduced by our Chairman, Alasdair Hutton.
Professor Caroline McCracken-Flesher is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. She took her MA at Edinburgh and her writing on Scottish literature is published widely. Her books include Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow and The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders. She has just received the Clan Scott Society’s highest award, the Order of the Stag. The award recognizes her “outstanding scholarship and study of Scottish literature, particularly that of Sir Walter Scott.”
Synopsis:
Caroline McCracken-Flesher discusses the many contemporary and later visitors to Scott’s home. What did his house mean to these visitors, and why? And what do the Abbotsford visitor books, maintained by Scott’s descendants, tell us about our own trends and needs as tourists?
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