”Thou with pencil, I with pen”: James Skene’s Artistic Collaboration with Sir Walter Scott

On Thursday 31st October 2024 we had a talk by Dr. Paul Barnaby on ”Thou with pencil, I with pen”: James Skene’s Artistic Collaboration with Sir Walter Scott. He was introduced by our Chairperson Dr. Lucy Wood

Dr Paul Barnaby, is Modern Literary Collections Curator at the University of Edinburgh. He has written and spoken extensively on a wide range of literature cultures, especially Scottish, including ‘The Young Person’s Sir Walter: Scott and the Nineteenth-Century Child Reader’ and speaking to the recent International Walter Scott Conference. He has also addressed the Club before in 2010 on ‘A Mighty Treasure: The Corson Collection’.

He is however best known for his work on the invaluable [The Walter Scott Digital Archive], the main online source of information on the life and work of Scott. Designed around Edinburgh University Library’s Corson Collection, the Archive has a wealth of details on his life, work and subsequent research and criticism, and is extensively illustrated.”

Recently published – ‘Sir Walter Scott in Translation: Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret and the French Ivanhoe’, in Translation Classics in Context