Chapman Issue 77

Issue: 77 - Women’s Forum 4 of 4 – The Arts Under a Scottish Democracy

Kate Calder on Women’s Writing for Children, Pat Gerber outlines Kay Matheson’s role in the ‘reclamation’ of the Stone of Destiny in 1953, and in ‘Untimely Death and Unfulfilled Promise’, Ailsa Tanner reminds us of women artists like Jane Cowan Wyper who died prematurely. Papers from AdCAS 1993 Arts Conference: Duncan MacMillan, Sheena Wellington and Lorne Boswell discuss funding and cultural politics in the visual and traditional arts and theatre. Fiction and poetry with a Highland thread from Bess Ross, Donald S Murray, Anne MacLeod and Gaelic by Rody Gorman; Vairi Corr’s ‘Tortoise Husbandry’ will raise a laugh, plus Judy Steel, Marianne McLeod Gilchrist, Liz Niven, Gerrie Fellows &c. 104 pp, 1994, ISBN-10: 0-906772-60-5 / ISBN-13: 978-0-906772-60-7 £5.00