Marion Emily Angus was a Scottish poet who wrote in the Scots vernacular or Braid Scots, defined by some as a dialect of English and others as a closely related language.
16 Facts About Marion Angus
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Marion Angus's father graduated from Marischal College in the same city and was ordained in Sunderland in 1859.
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Marion Angus became minister of Erskine United Free Church, Arbroath, in 1876.
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The Angus family left Sunderland for Arbroath in February 1876, when Marion was almost eleven.
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Marion Angus was educated at Arbroath High School, but did not follow her brothers into higher education.
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Marion Angus visited Switzerland and left an account of it.
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Marion Angus moved to various places around Glasgow to be near the institution where her sister was.
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Marion Angus continued to publish poetry and gave occasional lectures, but her finances deteriorated and she became subject to depression.
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Marion Angus returned to Arbroath in 1945 to be looked after by an erstwhile family servant, Williamina Sturrock Matthews.
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Marion Angus's ashes were scattered on the sands of Elliot Links.
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The first important published work by Marion Angus was a biography of her grandfather: Sheriff Watson of Aberdeen: the Story of his Life and his Work for the Young.
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Marion Angus did not begin to write poetry until after 1918.
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Marion Angus's work was influenced by the Scottish ballad tradition and by early Scots poets such as Robert Henryson and William Dunbar, rather than by Burns.
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Marion Angus associated in the pre-war Scottish Renaissance initially with revivalists like Violet Jacob, Alexander Gray and Lewis Spence, and then with MacDiarmid and his cultural efforts in the 1920s and 1930s, through inclusion of her work in Scottish Chapbook and Northern Numbers.
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Marion Angus's Selected Poems edited by Maurice Lindsay with a memoir by Helen Cruickshank appeared in 1950.
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Verse by Marion Angus has appeared in many anthologies, including Living Scottish Poets, Oor Mither Tongue: An Anthology of Scots Vernacular Verse, Poets' Quair: An Anthology for Scottish Schools, and more recently The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry, The Poetry of Scotland, Gaelic, Scots and English, and Modern Scottish Women Poets.