Sunset Song

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Of course, in so many ways, the lives and experiences of the characters in Sunset Song are worlds away from my own. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent.

The remaining slimmed down agricultural labour supply were hired annually at the famous feeing markets.It suggests that corporal punishment was not traditionally a big thing in the Gaelic west, but rather, was “a new fad” that had been introduced. Her eldest brother, Will, absconds with a girl from Kinraddie, marries her, and moves permanently to Argentina.

He also detested religion and thought Calvinism responsible for the Scots’ unnatural attitude towards sexuality and the human body. Life was hard for her – a cruel, incestuous father and a community that was often unforgiving in its iron-clad morality. I discovered this from studying adverts for runaway soldiers in the Caledonian Mercury in the 18th century.Strong and abiding relationships were maintained in the smaller worlds of the farming communities of the time, as evidenced by Robert McLellan’s Linmill Stories.