Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1921-1996. - 1996
Biography
George Mackay Brown (1921-96), was a novelist, poet and playwright, who was born in Orkney. He was educated at Newbattle Abbey College and the University of Edinburgh, and, apart from his time at these institutions, he rarely left the islands of his birth.
Found in 57 Collections and/or Records:
Rehearsal script of an adaptation for television by John McGrath, of three short stories of George Mackay Brown.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5281
Dates:
1971.
Six letters and three cards of George Mackay Brown to Maurice Fleming.
File
Identifier: Acc.13574
Dates:
1966-1992.
Twenty letters of Willa Muir to George Mackay Brown.
Series
Identifier: Dep.163- is now Acc.5042.
Dates:
1969-1970.
Two letters of George Mackay Brown to John Wilson.
File
Identifier: Acc.14426
Scope and Contents
On life at Moray House, and on Brown's poetry.
Dates:
1960-1961.
Typescript copy of play, circa 1969, of George Mackay Brown, "The Watcher".
File
Identifier: Acc.8735
Scope and Contents
With film treatment, 1964, of John Prebble and Austin Campbell, "Culloden".
Dates:
1964-circa 1969.
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- Scripts. Documents 3
- Christmas cards. 2
- Novels. 2
- Photocopies. 2
- Photographs. 2
- Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 2
- Short stories. 2
- Articles. 1
- Audiocassettes. 1
- Broadcasts. Events. 1
- Business records. 1
- Diaries. 1
- Juvenilia. 1
- Literature (writings). 1
- Lithographs. Planographic prints. 1
- Magazines. periodicals. 1
- Manuscripts. 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Personal papers. 1
- Plays. 1
- Professional papers. 1
- Proofs. Printed matter. 1
- Proofs. printed matter 1
- Publishers and publishing. 1
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