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Prof Donna Heddle, Director of the University of the Highlands & Islands Institute for Northern Studies (INS), & Dr Paul Malgrati, lecturer at INS, will produce an edited volume titled France & Scotland in Literature: Auld & New Alliances, to be published as part of the SCROLL series by Brill

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https://institutefornorthernstudies.com/2025/02/18/institute-for-northern-studies-team-to-edit-new-volume-exploring-the-rich-ties-between-french-and-scottish-literature/

in 1885.

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published in the US for the 1st time, in New York by Charles L. Webster, illustrated by E. W. Kemble, the 1st impression having been delayed for replacement of an unauthorized obscene alteration to one of the illustrative plates. Its first-person narrative in colloquial language is initially controversial but ultimately influential in the development of realism in American literature.

At PG
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/76

Cover of the book «Adventures of Huckleberry Finn» by Mark Twain, 1884 E. W. Kemble (1861–1933)

in 1895.

The Marquess of Queensberry (father of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover), leaves a calling card at the Albemarle Club in London inscribed: "For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite", i. e. sodomite, inducing Wilde to charge him with criminal libel. In a meeting on March 25 at the Café Royal in London, Frank Harris and George Bernard Shaw fail to dissuade Wilde from proceeding with the action.

Oscar Wilde at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/111

Wilde reclining with Poems, by Napoleon Sarony in New York in 1882. Wilde often liked to appear idle, though in fact he worked hard; by the late 1880s he was a father, an editor and a writer.

in 1923 (dated March).

The first issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales appears in the U.S. It becomes noted for its horror fiction and fantasy.

The first editor, Edwin Baird, printed early work by H. P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, and Clark Ashton Smith, all of whom went on to be popular writers, but within a year, the magazine was in financial trouble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Tales

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1 at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68957

First issue of Weird Tales, dated March 1923. The cover art is by R. R. Epperly. Cover of the pulp magazine Weird Tales (March 1923, vol. 1, no. 1) featuring Ooze by Anthony M. Rud.

Gaelic Songs in Fife & The Herring Gutters
1 March, Anstruther – free, ticketed

Join Meg Hyland & hear about the Scottish women who worked as herring gutters & the Gaelic songs they sang as they worked. Learn about the linguistic & musical exchanges that happened between speakers of Gaelic, Scots & English in the fishing industry

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-gaelic-songs-in-fife-and-the-herring-gutters-tickets-1118804487339