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Marion Emily Angus (1865–1946) was a Scottish poet who wrote in the Scots vernacular or Braid Scots, defined variously as a dialect of English or a language closely related to it. Her prose writings were mainly in standard English. She is seen as a forerunner of a Scottish renaissance in inter-war poetry, as her verse marked a departure from the Lallans tradition of Robert Burns in a direction similar to that of Hugh MacDiarmid, Violet Jacob and others.〔ODNB entry: (Retrieved 8 December 2011. Subscription required. )〕 ==Life== Born on 27 March 1865 in Sunderland, England, Marion Angus was the third of the six children of Henry Angus (1833–1902), a Presbyterian minister from North-East Scotland, and Mary Jessie, née Watson. Her grandfather on her mother's side was William Watson, sheriff-substitute of Aberdeen from 1829 to 1866, who in 1841 founded there the first industrial school for street children. Her father graduated from Marischal College in the same city and was ordained in Sunderland in 1859. He became minister of Erskine United Free Church, Arbroath, in 1876, and retired from the ministry in 1900.〔ODNB entry.〕 The family left Sunderland for Arbroath in February 1876, when Marion was almost eleven.〔Introduction to ''The Singin Lass. Selected Works...'', p. 13.〕 She was educated at Arbroath High School,〔The Wee Web: (Retrieved 9 December 2011. )〕 but did not carry on to a higher education as her brothers did.〔Introduction to ''The Singin Lass. Selected Works...'', p. 16.〕 However, she may have been to France, as she spoke the language fluently and made several references to France in her prose writings.〔Introduction to ''The Singin Lass. Selected Works...'', p. 19.〕 She also visited Switzerland and left an account of it.〔''Round about Geneva'', 1899.〕 Marion wrote fictionalized diaries anonymously for a newspaper, the ''Arbroath Guide''. Entitled ''The Diary of Arthur Ogilvie'' (1897–8) and ''Christabel's Diary'' (1899), they were also published in book form, but no copies of the former have survived. These have been taken to shed indirect light on Angus's life in early adulthood, which included abundant family and church work, and exercise in the form of walking and cycling.〔Introduction to ''The Singin Lass. Selected Works...'', pp. 18–21 and 44; doctoral dissertation by Aimée Y. Chalmers, p. 2. (Retrieved 9 December 2011. )〕 After her father's death in 1902, Marion and her sister Emily ran a private school at their mother's house in Cults, outside Aberdeen, but this was given up after the outbreak of the First World War. She worked during the war in an army canteen. She and her sister returned to Aberdeen in 1921, but Emily became mentally ill in April 1930 and was admitted to the Glasgow Royal Asylum, Gartnavel. Marion moved to various places around Glasgow to be near the institution where her sister was. She continued to publish poetry and gave occasional lectures, but her finances deteriorated and she became subject to depression.〔Introduction to ''The Singin Lass. Selected Works...'', p. 32–4.〕 Fellow Scots poet Nan Shepherd became a close friend in this period. The only body of correspondence to have survived is a group of letters to Marie Campbell Ireland, a friend she made in about 1930. A selection of these has been published.〔Introduction to ''The Singin Lass. Selected Works...'', pp. 113–23.〕 They and other letters betray a vein of disrespect and impatience with conventional society: "I don't know," she wrote to Ireland in about 1930, "that I care particularly for what is usually called 'cultivated people'. I found a more delicate and refined sympathy in my charwoman in Aberdeen than I did in any of my educated acquaintance."〔Papers of Mairi Campbell Ireland, National Library of Scotland, MS 19328 folio 71. Quoted in ''Voices from their Ain Countrie...'', p. 4.〕 The unconventional side of her is recalled in an article by a friend that appeared after her death: "She was nothing if not original.... even when her wit was mordant, she had a capacious and most generous heart...."〔P. W. L.: Miss Marion Angus: An Appreciation. ''Arbroath Guide'', 31 August 1946, p. 6. Quoted in ''Voices from their Ain Countrie...'', p. 5.〕 Marion Angus returned to Arbroath in 1945 to be looked after by a former family servant, Williamina Sturrock Matthews. She died there on 18 August 1946.〔ODNB entry.〕 Her ashes were scattered on the sands of Elliot Links.〔Scottish Poetry Library site. (Retrieved 10 April 2012. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marion Angus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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