72-589: The Dorothy Dunnett Society is a charity set up by Dorothy Dunnett in 2001. It was originally called the Dorothy Dunnett Readers' Association . It is a Charity regulated under Scottish law and has the following aims: In furtherance of these aims, the Society undertakes activities in the following area: Gives literary prizes and bursaries to encourage study and research into the periods about which Dorothy Dunnett wrote - most notably In 2006,
144-599: A baronetcy , and in June 1924 he became Sir Alexander Grant of Forres. In 1928 he donated a further £100,000 – making his combined donations the equivalent of around £6 million today – for a new library building to be constructed on George IV Bridge , replacing the Victorian-period Sheriff Court, which moved to the Royal Mile . Government funding was secured which matched Grant's donation. Work on
216-717: A Highland landscape, a croft house, a poppy-covered war memorial, and a Native American Tipi. The physical set is made from cardboard, however it has been digitised in 3D by the NLS, meaning it can be viewed online via the Cheviot 3D section on the NLS website while it is on loan. The library holds various items of early modern and restoration English drama, mainly within the Bute Collection. Notable items that can be found here include early editions of William Shakespeare's plays, namely A Midsummer Night's Dream , The Taming of
288-702: A board member of the Edinburgh International Book Festival , a trustee of the Scottish National War Memorial , and a non-executive director of Scottish Television. In 1992 she was awarded an OBE for her services to literature. Writing in The Times Literary Supplement , Alexander Fiske-Harrison reviewed her final novel in 2000, Gemini , and through that her entire oeuvre of historical fiction: "Although Dunnett’s writing style
360-663: A comprehensive collection of the publications of the UK Parliament from the 19th century to the present day. The Library holds copies of the House of Lords Journal, which dates from 1509 to the present day and is the Library's oldest currently published periodical. The journal records the proceedings of the House of Lords. The Library, in partnership with ProQuest and the House of Lords digitised 3,000 volumes of material related to
432-419: A display which explored Scotland's contribution to the progress of Enlightenment, and 'The International Style of Muriel Spark ' (8 December 2017 – 13 May 2018), a celebration of her life and literary achievements. As the library is a not a lending library, this building is one of several venues where the public are able to visit and consult primary materials in the reading rooms. There are two reading rooms in
504-487: A giant-sized pop-up book. The Library acquired the set in 2009, although it is currently on loan to V&A Dundee and is on display at the museum until 2043 as part of a 25-year loan agreement with the NLS. Measuring over 4 metres in length when opened and over 2 metres tall, the Cheviot set is the largest book at the National Library of Scotland. It consists of 5 different scenes painted by Byrne, including:
576-546: A large number of 19th and 20th century maps, many of them Swiss , French , and Italian – the earliest of these is a 1783 map of the Kingdom of Sardinia. Additions to the collection continue on an ad hoc basis. The Graham Brown Research Fellowship was initiated in 2018 and supports a three-month period of research for fellows to explore any aspect of mountaineering, including literature, history, and environment. The first National Library of Scotland Graham Brown Research Fellow
648-525: A large part of them. The Alps and the Himalayas receive the most coverage throughout the collections, and the discovery and exploration of the Arctic and Antarctica are heavily featured also. The Graham Brown collection was acquired by the library in 1961 via the bequest of physiologist Professor Thomas Graham Brown . There are over 20,000 items within the collection, including written works related to
720-664: A press officer in the civil service, where she met her husband. A leading light in the Scottish arts world and a renaissance woman , she was a professional portrait painter and exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy on many occasions. She had portraits commissioned by a number of prominent public figures in Scotland. She had a keen interest in opera, was a trustee of the National Library of Scotland ,
792-615: Is a collection of over 46,000 moving images (films, television shows, and short video clips). The Library acquired the collection as the Scottish Screen Archive in 2007, though it was renamed in 2015. Over 2,600 items from the collection have been put online and are freely available to the public for viewing in the venue at Kelvin Hall. Lord Hope in November 2014 donated legal and personal papers including opinions covering
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#1732787580759864-540: Is a series of six novels, set in mid-sixteenth-century Europe and the Mediterranean, which follows the life and career of a Scottish nobleman, Francis Crawford of Lymond , from 1547 through 1558. Meticulously researched, the series takes place in a wide variety of locations, including France, the Ottoman Empire , Malta , England, Scotland and Russia. In addition to a compelling cast of original characters,
936-444: Is not the neutral prose of genre fiction and it can be opaque and hard to read, especially in the early works, at times, this works with the almost melodramatic content to produce a powerful, operatic mixture... It is neither as a literary novelist nor as a historian, but as a writer of historical fiction that Dorothy Dunnett deserves recognition... The publication of Gemini completes an ambitious literary circle." In 2001 she founded
1008-603: Is one of the country's National Collections . It is one of the largest libraries in the United Kingdom. As well as a public programme of exhibitions, events, workshops, and tours, the National Library of Scotland has reading rooms where visitors can access the collections. It is the legal deposit library of Scotland and is a member of Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL). There are over 24 million items held at
1080-517: Is one of the most extensive cartographic archives available for research in a public institution. The Library holds roughly 375 military maps and plans that were prepared by the Board of Ordnance in the 18th century for government troops during the Jacobite period. Within the collection are maps of routes, fortifications, and Highland towns. The items in the collections were donated to the library in
1152-558: The 10:10 project in 2010 in a bid to reduce their carbon footprint . One year later they announced that they had reduced their carbon emissions according to 10:10's criteria by 18%. On 16 May 2012 the National Library of Scotland Act 2012 (asp 3) was passed by the Scottish Parliament , and received royal assent on 21 June 2012. In April 2013 the library recruited a Wikipedian in residence , becoming
1224-561: The Clan Sinclair , which date back to 1488. On 26 February 2009, areas of the building were flooded after a water main burst on the 12th floor. Firefighters were called and the leaking water was stopped within ten minutes. A number of items were lightly damaged. The last letter written by Mary Queen of Scots made a rare public appearance to mark the opening of a new library visitor centre in September 2009. The library joined
1296-826: The Dorothy Dunnett Society to promote interest in the historical periods about which she wrote and communication among her readers. Dunnett's archive was left to the National Library of Scotland and articles from it appear in Whispering Gallery , the magazine of the Dorothy Dunnett Society. Dorothy Dunnett was married in 1946 to Sir Alastair Dunnett , editor of The Scotsman newspaper, and appears in his autobiography, Among Friends , 1984. By virtue of his knighthood in 1995, she became Lady Dunnett. She died in Edinburgh , and
1368-619: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival . The general public are able (and encouraged) to view these items at the Special Collections Reading Room in the library's main building, a space where people can consult rare books, manuscripts, and music. Theatre of the 20th century is also well represented on film and can be viewed by the public at the library's Moving Image Archive. The Cheviot, the Stag, and
1440-725: The First Folio of Shakespeare , the Glenriddell Manuscripts , and the last letter written by Mary Queen of Scots . It has the largest collection of Scottish Gaelic material of any library in the world. The Library's main public building is in Edinburgh city centre on George IV Bridge , between the Old Town and the university quarter. This building is Category A listed . Exhibitions are frequently held here, with past examples including 'Northern Lights: The Scottish Enlightenment ' (21 June 2019 – 18 April 2020),
1512-538: The House of John Murray , a British publisher known for publishing the likes of Jane Austen , Herman Melville , Charles Darwin, and Lord Byron . Also included within the collection is the Archive of Smith, Elder and Company , as well as the Charles Elliot papers. The Library continues to receive additions to the archive on an ad hoc basis. There are over 4,200 bound volumes (40,000 individual reports) within
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#17327875807591584-653: The Maps Reading Room, purposed for visitors to consult maps, atlases, gazetteers, and cartographic reference books. The newest addition to the Library is the 2016 Kelvin Hall public centre in Glasgow , purposed to provide access to the library's digital and moving collections, namely the Moving Image Archive . Like at the library's main building, exhibits are held here too, though on a smaller scale. Originally, Scotland's national deposit library
1656-579: The Ross Herald ( Charles Burnett ) as well as members of the Society and others. The stone contains Lady Dunnett's coat of arms, and a short quote from one of her books "Where are the links in the chain ... joining us to the past". The Society has members in England, Scotland, Wales , Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and other countries around
1728-689: The 115 Siegers focused on Pawn in Frankincense and also on John Grant in the Niccolὸ series, in which historical character John Grant had taken part in the 1453 Siege of Constantinople , this was followed by the 'Dunnett Carnival of Venice' in Venice in 2016 focusing primarily on the 'House of Niccolò'. There are several meetings of readers in the UK each year, in locations such as Oxford , Bath , London , York , Warwick , Harrogate and Stamford . Also
1800-547: The 1920s, the upkeep of collection was too much for the Advocates Library and, with the aid of a £100,000 endowment from Alexander Grant , managing director of McVitie & Price , the library's contents were presented to the nation. The National Library of Scotland was formally constituted by the National Library of Scotland Act 1925 ( 15 & 16 Geo. 5 . c. 73). Grant's support was recognised with
1872-700: The 1930s by a government department descended from the Board. The Stevenson Collection is a collection of 19th and 20th century manuscript and printed maps, drawings, and building plans from the Stevenson family, a Scottish engineering family specialising in building lighthouses, harbours, and other civil engineering works. The collection mostly covers their work in the United Kingdom, although there are some works concerning Japan and New Zealand, and several other countries. The National Library of Scotland holds materials related to (primarily) Scottish theatre, though many of
1944-640: The Black Sea cities of Trebizond and Caffa ; Persia ; the Mediterranean islands of Cyprus and Rhodes ; Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula ; and West Africa and the city of Timbuktu . Nicholas's progress is intertwined with such historical characters as Anselm Adornes , James III of Scotland and James II of Cyprus . As with the Lymond Chronicles , the series features a number of historical persons, many as important characters. Both
2016-595: The Black, Black Oil is a Scottish play by playwright John McGrath . The play tells the history of economic change and exploitation in the Scottish Highlands , from the Highland Clearances all the way through to the contemporary oil boom at the time of its initial production. The stage set for the play, designed and painted by Scottish artist John Byrne , was made in 1973 and is in the form of
2088-640: The Dorothy Dunnett Society arranged for a memorial stone to be laid in the memory of Dorothy Dunnett in the Makars' Court by the entrance to the Scottish Writer's Museum at Lady Stair's Close on Edinburgh's Royal Mile . The unveiling ceremony was attended by Dorothy Dunnett's son, Mungo Dunnett and his family, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh , the Edinburgh Makar (Valerie Gillies), and
2160-486: The Edinburgh Makar ( Valerie Gillies ), and the Ross Herald (Charles Burnett). The initiative to lay the stone, and the main funding for it, came from the members of the Dorothy Dunnett Society. The Stone contains Dorothy Dunnett's name, her coat of arms, and a brief quote from one of her books "Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past". Dunnett's long-term home at 87 Colinton Road, Edinburgh
2232-480: The George IV building, and a third Multimedia Room for consulting non-written materials: There is also a more modern building, constructed in the 1980s, in a residential area on the south side of the town centre, on Causewayside. This was built to accommodate some of the specialist collections, such as maps and science collections, and to provide extra large-scale storage. There is one reading room located here also;
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2304-675: The India Papers collection. The archive consists of reports, photographs, government correspondence, and various other miscellaneous material related to the British Raj . The collection is rare and is the largest of its kind in the UK behind the India Office Records at the British Library . It contains items related to medicine, travel, the arts, human rights, and military history, as well as many others. One of
2376-483: The Librarian and National Librarian. The National Library of Scotland has many different collections in varying sizes, though some of the larger ones (with in-depth pages of their own) are listed here: The John Murray Archive is one of the larger collections at the National Library of Scotland, consisting of over one million items. It contains various documents, letters, manuscripts, and business papers all related to
2448-425: The Library as a result of the 1925 National Library of Scotland Act, and the public may consult the material in the reading rooms at the library's main building. Also held at the library are various business publications of Scottish Parliament, available in print to consult physically at the library are those dated up to September 2015. Publications dated after September 2015 can be viewed digitally. The Library holds
2520-529: The Library in various formats including books, annotated manuscripts and first-drafts, postcards, photographs, and newspapers. The library is also home to Scotland's Moving Image Archive , a collection of over 46,000 videos and films. Notable items amongst the collection include copies of the Gutenberg Bible , Charles Darwin's letter with which he submitted the manuscript of On the Origin of Species ,
2592-423: The National Library of Scotland include early editions several Scottish plays, printed before 1736, that would have been performed like this. Also held at the NLS are a small number of early editions of The Gentle Shepherd (1725) by Scottish poet Allan Ramsay which was turned into a ballad opera and became a favourite of the Scottish stage. There is a large collection of Edinburgh Theatre Royal playbills at
2664-563: The Scottish Parliament, though the NLS does also receive materials from overseas, including the United States and the Commonwealth. The India Papers are a prime example of a substantial collection of official publications. The Library holds various documents and publications relating to Scottish Parliament including the proceedings from the first surviving Act of Parliament in 1235. All Acts of Parliament are deposited at
2736-603: The Shrew , Hamlet , and Othello . The Bute Collection hosts other Elizabethan , Jacobean and Caroline dramatists as well, namely George Chapman , Thomas Dekker (including an intact copy of the Converted Curtezan of 1604), John Lyly , Philip Massinger , Thomas Middleton , and John Webster . Although Scotland's first public theatre did not open until 1736, plays were performed at alternative venues like schools, courts, and local festivals. The collections at
2808-605: The Society was known as the Dorothy Dunnett Readers' Association. On 22 April 2006, a memorial stone to Lady Dunnett was laid by her grandchildren, Hal and Bella Dunnett, alongside those for Robert Louis Stevenson , Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott in the Makars' Court in Lady Stair's Close on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh was in attendance, and gave a speech, as did
2880-567: The affairs of 19th-century Canada , Italy , and British India. The Patrick Leigh Fermor Archive is a collection of different items related to Patrick 'Paddy' Leigh Fermor , a British travel writer, adventurer, and veteran. The Archive was purchased by the Library in 2012 from Fermor's estate, using funds from the John R. Murray charitable trust. There are over 10,000 items in the collection including photographs, sketches, films, war reports, books, manuscripts, and postcards. The Moving Image Archive
2952-516: The annual meeting in Darmstadt ) and Italy. Readers also get together more informally to go on holiday to various Dunnett locations. In 2007 some readers visited Timbuktu and others Venice . In 2011, the first International Dorothy Dunnett Day was announced by the Dorothy Dunnett Society to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Game of Kings . It was held on Saturday 15 October 2011, with readers gathering in locations around
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3024-630: The bigger sections, the Medical History of British India, has been digitised and is available to the public online. One of the highlights from the collection is the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission report. The Minto Papers are over 2,000 documents relating to the Elliot family, a British family of aristocrats founded in the 17th century. This collection is a valuable source of study for British politics, Scottish history, and
3096-475: The collection is the second edition of Purchas his Pilgrimage (1614). The National Library of Scotland has an extensive collection of official material as a result of the 1710 Copyright Act and also because of the library's status the library of the Faculty of Advocates. The official publications at the library consist largely of documents relating to Westminster Parliament and other UK government bodies, like
3168-499: The collection that were published before the middle of the 1700s are concerned with the history and topography of Switzerland , whilst the works from later in the century are more related to the natural history, geography and geology of the country. Also included within the Lloyd collection are guidebooks on Switzerland and illustrated journals of Alpine tours. The Wordie collection consists of works on Arctic and Antarctic exploration and
3240-469: The compilation of The Dorothy Dunnett Companion (1994) and The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II (2002), which were written by Elspeth Morrison. These books provide background information to historical characters and events featured in the Lymond Chronicles and The House of Niccolò , as well as explanations of classical allusions and literary and other quotations used in the two series, notes to sources of these citations, and many maps. The second volume, which
3312-488: The examples of the pictorial posters of the later part of the 19th century, featuring scenes from plays or portraits of the leading actors and actresses. The NLS has obtained three substantial collections which make it an important hub for the study of mountains, mountaineering, and the polar regions. Climbing is the central focus of the library's mountaineering collections, though materials related to ecology, hillwalking, mountains in art and literature, and geology also make up
3384-435: The fictitious adventurer Francis Crawford of Lymond . This was followed by the eight novel prequel series The House of Niccolò . Her other works include a novel concerning the historical Macbeth called King Hereafter (1982), and a series of mystery novels centered upon Johnson Johnson , a portrait painter and spy. Dunnett was educated at James Gillespie's High School for Girls in Edinburgh . She started her career as
3456-598: The first institution in the Scotland to create such a post. In 2016, the library recruited a Gaelic Wikipedian in residence. In September 2016 the library opened a new centre at the refurbished Kelvin Hall , Glasgow, in partnership with Glasgow Life and the University of Glasgow , providing access to the library's digital and moving image collections. The head of the library is the Chief Executive and National Librarian. The role has previously been known as
3528-975: The formal Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Dorothy Dunnett Society is held each spring in Edinburgh as part of its Dorothy Dunnett Weekend. Occasional meetings are held in Australia and Canada, as well, with one SworDDplay held in Vancouver in April 2006 and another in Alexandria, Virginia in the United States in March 2008 and the Dunnett Confluence of Pittsburgh took place in Pennsylvania in October 2013. Smaller meetings also occur locally in several other countries, such as Germany (notably
3600-415: The heights of European merchant banking and international political intrigue. The series shares most of the locations in Dunnett's earlier series, the Lymond Chronicles , but it extends much further geographically to take in the important urban centres of Bruges , Venice , Florence , Geneva , and the Hanseatic League ; Burgundy , Flanders , and Poland; Iceland ; the Iberian Peninsula and Madeira ;
3672-411: The historical and fictional characters are, however, taken from a wider variety of occupations and social classes than in the Lymond Chronicles . There are significant differences in narrative approach and writing style between the series, reflecting in part the very different personal journey taken by the central character in each. King Hereafter (1982), her long novel set in Orkney and Scotland in
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#17327875807593744-426: The history of Alpine climbing, books on Arctic exploration, mountaineering journals, over 250 press cuttings, postcards, manuscripts, and photographs. Much of the material within the collection is personal; there are Brown's climbing diary notebooks, papers related to his time as an editor of the Alpine Journal, correspondence, and his book The First Ascent of Mont Blanc (1957). The Graham Brown Collection also contains
3816-488: The individual notable items are found across different collections. It has a wide range of theatre materials, including scripts and manuscripts, business papers, sets, theatre programmes, and photographs. Many of the theatre-related items from the 20th and 21st century are held by the Library. These include plays and unpublished manuscripts; music hall and pantomime material; posters, playbills and programmes; reviews and news cuttings; theatre company archives; and material from
3888-433: The library, advertising performances and events from 1807 to 1851. The library also holds a few texts of stage adaptations of the novels of Sir Walter Scott . As well as this, the NLS has books from the lawyer and author Sir Theodore Martin , which mainly relate to his wife, actress Helena Faucit . The Weir Collection is one of the biggest resources at the National Library of Scotland for 19th century materials related to
3960-461: The new building was started in 1938, interrupted by World War II , and completed in 1956. The architect was Reginald Fairlie ; the architectural sculptor was Hew Lorimer . The coat of arms above the entrance was sculpted by Scott Sutherland and the roundels above the muses on the front facade by Elizabeth Dempster . By the 1970s, room for the growing collections was running out, and other premises were required. The Causewayside Building opened in
4032-440: The novels feature many historical figures, often in important roles. The House of Niccolò is a series of eight historical novels set in the late-fifteenth-century European Renaissance. Niccolo Rising , the first book of the series, was published in 1986, and the last, Gemini in 2000. The protagonist of the series is Nicholas de Fleury (Niccolò, Nicholas van der Poele, or Claes), a talented boy of uncertain birth who rises to
4104-493: The period of his active legal career. The National Library of Scotland holds over two million cartographic items, making it the largest collection of maps in Scotland and one of the largest in the world. There are several separate collections of maps within the library's holdings, namely the Bartholomew Archive and the Graham Brown Collection (see below). At the library there are maps relating to many different kinds of landscapes, such as estates, counties, railways, maps which show
4176-416: The poems that appeared in The Lymond Chronicles . This was finalised after her death by Elspeth Morrison and edited by Richenda Todd ( ISBN 978-0141012445 published in 2003 by Penguin). In collaboration with her husband, Alastair Dunnett, she wrote the text for the photography book The Scottish Highlands (Photographs: David Patterson), published in 1988. In December 2016, it was announced that
4248-500: The rights to the Lymond Chronicles had been obtained by Mammoth Screen with a view to making a TV series. Dorothy Dunnett founded the Dorothy Dunnett Society . Membership of this registered charity is open to all Dunnett readers, and aims to promote interest in the periods of history about which Dunnett wrote, to preserve her writings, and to promote appreciation of the literary merit of her works. It also encourages discussion and meetings between readers. Prior to 1 September 2011,
4320-430: The south-side of Edinburgh in two phases, in 1989 and in 1995, at a total cost of almost £50 million, providing additional working space and storage facilities. Since 1999, the library has been funded by the Scottish Parliament . It remains one of six legal deposit libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and is overseen by a board of trustees. The library also holds many ancient family manuscripts including those of
4392-420: The theatre. The collection is an Archive of over 500 19th-century playbills, posters, programmes, photographs and newspaper cuttings, presented to the library in 1970 by Kathleen Weir, who inherited them from her father, James J. Weir. One of the earliest playbills in the collection advertises a performance of Rob Roy on 11 March 1829 with Charles Mackay playing Bailie Nicol Jarvie . Particularly attractive are
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#17327875807594464-400: The trenches of World War I, and alpine areas. The collections include: The Bartholomew Archive is a notable map collection that was gifted to the Library in 1995 by the Bartholomew family in memory of Scottish cartographer John Bartholomew (1890–1962). The archive provides information about the Edinburgh-based firm of map engravers, printers, and publishers, John Bartholomew and Son Ltd. It
4536-559: The world at 13:00 (1pm) local time to toast the author. Meetings were held in Edinburgh, London, Vancouver, San Francisco, the Costa Del Sol, Boston, and other locations. The second IDDD was held on Saturday 10 November 2012, to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the death of Dorothy Dunnett on 9 November 2001. The last pre-COVID-19 event was held on 9 November 2019. National Library of Scotland The National Library of Scotland ( NLS ; Scottish Gaelic : Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba ; Scots : Naitional Leebrar o Scotland )
4608-408: The world. The Society is regulated by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and its Charitable reference number is SC030649. Dorothy Dunnett Dorothy, Lady Dunnett OBE (née Halliday, 25 August 1923 – 9 November 2001) was a Scottish novelist best known for her historical fiction . Dunnett is most famous for her six novel series set during the 16th century, which concern
4680-459: The years just before the invasion of England by William the Conqueror, was in Dorothy Dunnett's eyes her masterpiece. It is about an Earl of Orkney uniting the people of Alba (Scotland) and becoming its king, and is based on the author's premise that the central character Thorfinn, Earl of Orkney and the historical Macbeth , Scottish King, were one and the same person (Thorfinn is his birth name and Macbeth his baptismal name). Dunnett assisted in
4752-544: Was Alex Boyd FRSA , an artist, photographer, and curator. He focussed on the cultural and literary significance of mountains in Scotland. The Lloyd Archive consists primarily of books and journals on the Alps and was bequeathed by former Vice-President of the Alpine Club , Robert Wylie Lloyd . Lloyd was interested in entomology and collecting art. There are roughly 2000 items in the collection and many of them in English , although there are 300 in French, over 100 in German , 20 in Italian, and some works in Latin . Books in
4824-706: Was at an Edwardian era semi-detached villa in the Merchiston area, designed by Edward Calvert . Dorothy Dunnett readers are devoted and active, and have held gatherings in Edinburgh in 1990, 1994, and in 2000 with over 300 people in attendance. Similar events were held in Boston , and in Philadelphia in 2000. Since her death smaller international gatherings of between 50 and 115 people have been held in Dublin (November 2001), New Orleans (November 2003), Malta (October 2005), Saddell in South West Scotland (April 2007), Orkney (September 2007), and Paris (2010). A gathering, 'The Dunnett Siege of Constantinople', took place in Istanbul in September 2012. Places visited by
4896-421: Was formed by Sir James Mann Wordie , a British explorer and scholar. The library obtained the collection in 1959, containing nearly 5000 items including books, journals, pamphlets, maps, and correspondence. The collection includes not only technical reports of scientific expeditions, and the results of polar research, but also popular accounts of travel and exploration, whale-fishing and folklore. The oldest item in
4968-485: Was published prior to the first House of Niccolò book. A contemporary short story, "The Proving Climb", set on the Scottish Isle of St. Kilda, was published in the 1973 anthology Scottish Short Stories (Scottish Arts Council, published by Collins, ISBN 0-00-221851-8 ). It was republished by the Dorothy Dunnett Society and distributed to its members in 2008 with issue 100 of Whispering Gallery . The Lymond Poetry contains her versions and translations of some of
5040-409: Was survived by her sons Ninian and Mungo Dunnett. The manuscript for the first book in the Lymond Chronicles , The Game of Kings , was rejected by five British publishers before being published by U.S. publisher Putnam in 1961. It was written in response to her husband's suggestion that she write something herself, when she complained of having run out of reading material. The Lymond Chronicles
5112-445: Was the Advocates Library belonging to the Faculty of Advocates . It was opened in 1689 and gained national library status in the Copyright Act 1710 ( 8 Ann. c. 21), giving it the legal right to a copy of every book published in Great Britain . In the following centuries, the library added books and manuscripts to the collections by purchase as well as legal deposit, creating a privately-funded national library in all but name. By
5184-522: Was written after the Niccolò series was completed, contains a bibliography of many of the hundreds of primary and secondary sources Dunnett used in her historical research. Dunnett contributed more to the second volume than the first and wrote many of the entries. This series of mystery thrillers was written over a long period, starting when she was writing the Lymond Chronicles. The final entry
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