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Her writing is rich with paradox - although  obsessively Scottish in subject and style, she resented Scotland;  although a trenchant champion of feminism, she voluntarily sacrificed  her identity to that of the 'poet's wife'; and although she was a  committed reformer, she never aligned herself with any political or  ideological movement. These passionate dichotomies are intertwined in  her writing, giving a particular power to her fiction and non-fiction  alike. This collection is the first publication to offer a sense of the  diversity of Willa Muir's oeuvre. It makes possible the re-evaluation of  her work and assures her of a deserved place in the Scottish literary  canon.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49571836887313,"sku":"GOR001726658","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49617248977169,"sku":"GOR001906421","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730822504721,"sku":"NGR9780862416058","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50478931771665,"sku":"GOR004240257","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0862416051.jpg?v=1751233793"},{"product_id":"usurpers-book-willa-muir-9781912788279","title":"The Usurpers","description":"The Usurpers, was based on the diaries Willa Muir kept in Prague in the period 1945-1948, when her husband was the Director the British Institute there. 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It has happened before; it will happen again; it happened to us. We belonged together.\" Belonging: A Memoir by Willa Muir, first published in 1968, is a moving and unashamed account of her long and deep relationship with her literary husband Edwin Muir.  Beginning with their first meeting in Glasgow in 1918, Willa Muir then charts the many travels, homes, projects, decisions, joys and hardships of their forty-one years together. Often viewed as being overshadowed by her more acclaimed partner, Belonging asserts the decision of an intellectual and passionate woman to believe that the concept of 'True Love' is the only sustaining philosophy and basis for happiness.Willa Muir's account is however no delusional romantic tale, and her detailed narration of her life with Edwin Muir is balanced and grounded by her perceptive comments of the patriarchal world she existed in and her recognition that her own attempts at literary greatness were constantly shaped by domestic concerns. 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