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Arnold Bennett: A Biography - Softcover
Arnold Bennett: A Biography
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Published by -, 1986
ISBN 10: 0839829035 / ISBN 13: 9780839829034
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Margaret Bennett
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Margaret Bennett is a writer, international scholar, singer and broadcaster who is widely regarded as "Scotland's foremost folklorist". Qualifications aside, she wears her scholarship lightly, crediting any expertise to her upbringing in a family of tradition bearers, Gaelic on her mother's side and Lowland Scots on her father's.
As a performer, she often weaves stories and songs through presentations, and, as Scottish Arts critic Judy Moir wrote it's "rare to witness such a charismatic and fascinating raconteur". Margaret is a prize-winning author, with 15 books to her credit, and contributions to over 50 others, reflecting her interests in Scottish customs; rural traditions of work and recreation, songs, flowers trees and plants; industrial heritage (mining, mill-working, brick-making, engineering); wartime memories; and emigrant traditions of the Scottish diaspora. Appearances at festivals and conferences include the E
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Margaret Bennett (writer)
British musician, broadcaster, writer
Margaret Bennett (born 27 October 1946) is a Scottish writer, folklorist, ethnologist, broadcaster, and singer. Her main interests lies in the field of traditional Scottish människor culture and cultural identity of the Scots in Scotland and abroad. The late Hamish Henderson, internationally distinguished poet and folklorist, said about her: Margaret embodies the spirit of Scotland.[1]
Biography
[edit]Margaret Bennett grew up in a family of tradition bearers: Gaelic, from her mother's side, and Irish and Lowland Scots from her father's. She and her three sisters lived their childhood in the Isle of Skye, "in a household where singing, playing music, dancing and berättande were a way of life as were traditional crafts."[2] The family moved to the Isle of Lewis in the late 1950s, and then to the Shetland Islands between 1963 and 1964, when her father (a civil engineer) emigrated to Newfoundlan