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Literary Dinner, Dundee

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Overview and Issues

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  • Transcription of a talk given by Dorothy Dunnett to the Federation of University Women, November 9, 1989.
  • WG149

Abstract

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  • Dorothy recounts how the author/publisher relationship changed from when she first began writing and how important it is to find a good agent in order to get published, how relating to the reader is important up to a point, and the perils of researching history.

Author

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References

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People

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  • MacBeth
  • Bob Gottleib, editor of The New Yorker
  • Lois Cole, Dorothy Dunnett's first American editor

Fictional Character

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  • Francis Crawford of Lymond
  • Niccolò

Locations

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  • Dundee, Scotland

Literature

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  • Gone with the Wind

Illustrations

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  • 'Hard work', illustration to Petrach, 'Von der Artzney bayder GlÜck', Augsburg, Germany. Steiner, 1522. B&W.

Historical Events

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  • (None)

Other References

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  • Sir Thomas Beecham
  • Society for Creative Anachronism

Quotes from Dunnett

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