My friend Evee over @ Evee's Blog just told me about a book she picked up at a used book sale. Marget Pow by Catherine Ponton Slater. She made it sound so wonderful I went right to my search engine and found a copy! I can't wait until it gets here to start reading it! My copy is missing the dust jacket though, darn!
"Its a grand thing to
live in a land where a the folks speak plain Scotch. They say Italian is
a beautiful language; so it may be so to them that understands it. But
a body likes the tongue best that their Minnie used to sing hush-a-bye to
them when they were weans, and its the language they would be fain to
hear when they close their eyes in the sleep that needs no rockin'."
Marget Pow by Catherine Ponton Slater is designed to delight the senses
and offer relief to the tired mind. Originally published in full form in
1925, Marget Pow offers an account of the tapsalteerie of the early
twentieth century as viewed by the eponymous heroine a douce and loyal
Scottish domestic servant with decided opinions. Opening in epistolary
form, Marget Pow's letters while she travels with her mistresses on the
continent prove the maxim that one can take the woman out of Scotland
but not Scotland out of the woman as she sets all she encounters against
the benchmarks of home. Her further accounts in diary and memoir form
of her return home, her description of her days in domestic service in
the family's home in Edinburgh and their holiday home in the west coast
are nothing short of a linguistic carnival as Ponton Slater utilises the
unique characteristics of the Scots tongue to produce a work of high
humour and wonderful entertainment.
Perfect for Read Scotland!
I can't find anything online about the author though! Evee said it was originally released in 3 installments, but printed as one complete novel in 1925. The copy I found is from 1944 or '46, I can't remember now!
Have any of you read this author or know anything about her?
Peggy Ann
Sunday, March 22, 2015
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It's so exciting when you're waiting for a much wanted book to arrive. And I love the sound of this one... let us know what it's like when you get to it.
ReplyDeleteI will Cath!
DeleteThis caught my eye immediately, Peggy Ann. Surely another author for my list as well! Can't wait to read your thoughts on it.
ReplyDeleteI did think of you Scott, when I saw this book!
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