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Catherine Carswell IN May 1908 The Times published a court report on a landmark trial, “a wife’s suit for the nullity of marriage on the ground that at the time of marriage the husband was insane and incapable of contracting marriage.” The wife in question would go on to become one of Scotland’s most significant, though relatively under-appreciated writers, one of the few women who made a mark in the 20th century Scottish renaissance, Catherine Carswell. Carswell would write Open The Door, a ground-breaking and highly-autobiographical novel about a young woman’s sexual awakening and strivings for independence, pen a controversial, landmark biography of Robert Burns – which so upset Burns’ devotees that one sent her a bullet in the post – and write much-lauded arts criticism for The Glasgow Herald, including a daringly positive review of DH Lawrence’s controversial novel, The Rainbow, that would see her sacked. But back then she was Mrs Catherine Jackson, a Gla
What is it about Imelda May s timing? When we were last at our lowest ebb, in those bleak midwinters a decade ago, she bounced on to the scene, all 1950s quiff and alley cat energy, and it felt like a shot in the arm; she was the perfect antidote to bland boybands and recession angst.