Jenni Calder
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Jenni Calder (née Daiches) (born 1941) is a Scottish literary historian, and arts establishment figure.
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| name = Jenni Calder (née Daiches)
| image = Jennicalder.jpg
| caption = Jenni Calder at a literary event
| birth_date = 1941
| birth_place = Chicago
| alma_mater = New Hall, University of Cambridge
| known_for = Writer, poet
| children = 3
}}
Biography
Edinburgh based, she has been part of the Scottish literary community for many years. Her teaching and writing cover Scottish, English and American literary and historical subjects.
She has written 28 books on literary and historical subjects,{{Cite web|title=Author: Jenni Calder|url=https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/authors/jenni-calder|access-date=2021-03-05|website=Scottish Book Trust|language=en-gb}}{{Cite web|title=Jenni Calder|url=https://booksfromscotland.com/bfs-author/jenni-calder/|access-date=2021-03-05|website=Books from Scotland|language=en-US}} including biographies of Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Orwell and Naomi Mitchison and books on Scottish history and Scottish emigration. She has a particular research interest in emigration and the Scottish diaspora. She worked at the National Museums of Scotland from 1978 to 2001 and latterly as Head of Museum of Scotland International.{{Cite web|title=Jenni Calder|url=https://www.luath.co.uk/jenni-calder|access-date=2021-03-05|website=Luath Press|language=en-GB}} In 2003 she helped to organise the National Museums of Scotland's exhibition called 'Trailblazers - the Scots in Canada'.{{Cite journal|last=Stokes-Rees|first=Emily|date=2004|title=Review of Trailblazers: Scots in Canada'|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40793757|journal=Journal of Museum Ethnography|issue=16|pages=189–191|jstor=40793757 |issn=0954-7169}} She was president of Scottish PEN, a not-for-profit organisation that champions freedom of expression and literature across borders.{{Cite web|title=Scottish PEN|url=https://scottishpen.org/|access-date=2021-03-05|website=Scottish PEN|language=en-US}}
She writes fiction and poetry as "Jenni Daiches".{{Cite web|title=Jenni Daiches - Poet|url=https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/jenni-daiches/|access-date=2021-03-05|website=Scottish Poetry Library|language=en-GB}}
She was formerly married to Angus Calder, and is the daughter of David Daiches a prominent Scottish, Jewish, writer, critic and historian. She was born in the US and spent time in Kenya. Her book Not Nebuchadnezzar is a partly a biography and a
On the question of Scottish independence; of 27 Scottish authors whose opinion was sought, Calder was one of only two offering a definite No."Of the 27, I counted 15 who would give a definite Yes to independence. Only two of the others – Jenni Calder and myself – give a definite No."
"[http://kenmacleod.blogspot.ie/2012/12/never-knowingly-understated.html Never knowingly understated]".
Ken MacLeod, The Early Days of A Better Nation. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
Some works
- {{Cite book|last=Calder|first=Jenni|title=Chronicles of Conscience: A Study of George Orwell and Arthur Koestler.|year=1968|isbn=082295205X}}
- There Must Be a Lone Ranger: The myth and reality of the American Wild West. Hamish Hamilton, 1974
- Huxley Brave New World and Orwell Nineteen Eighty Four. Edward Arnold, 1976
- {{Cite book|last=Calder|first=Jenni|title=Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction|publisher=Thames & Hudson Ltd|year=1976|isbn=0500520011}}
- {{Cite book|last=Calder|first=Jenni|title=The Victorian Home|publisher=Batsford Ltd|year=1977|isbn=0713408170}}
- {{Cite book|last=Calder|first=Jenni|title=Heroes: From Byron to Guevara|publisher=Haminsh Hamilton|year=1977|isbn=0241895367}}
- {{Cite book|last=Calder|first=Jenni|title=RLS: Life Study Of Robert Louis Stevenson|publisher=Hamish Hamilton|year=1980|isbn=9780241103746}}
- Stevenson and Victorian Scotland. Edinburgh University Press, 1984
- Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four. Open University, 1988
- The Wealth of a Nation. Publications Office, Edinburgh, 1989
- Scotland in Trust: The National Trust for Scotland, 1990
- {{Cite book|last=Calder|first=Jenni|title=Sir Walter Scott's Waverley|publisher=Luath Press Ltd|year=2017|isbn=9781910021262}}
- {{Cite book|last=Daiches|first=Jenni|title=Letters from the Great Wall|year=2006|publisher=Luath Press Limited |isbn=9781905222513}}
- {{Cite book|last=Calder|first=Jenni|title=Lost in the Backwoods|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|year=2013|isbn=9780748647392}}
- {{Cite book|last=Calder|first=Jenni|title=Essence of Edinburgh|publisher=Luath Press Ltd|year=2018|isbn=9781912147540}}
- {{Cite book|last=Calder|first=Jenni|title=The Burning Glass|publisher=Sandstone Press Ltd|year=2019|isbn=9781912240661}}
- {{Cite book|last=Calder|first=Jenni|title=The Scots in Canada|publisher=Luath Press Ltd|year=2013|isbn=9781908373038}}
- {{Cite book|last=Calder|first=Jenni|title=Frontier Scots|publisher=Luath Press Ltd|year=2010|isbn=9781906307998}}
- {{Cite book|last=Daiches|first=Jenni|title=Forgive|publisher=Luath Press Ltd|year=2015|isbn=9781910021385}}
- The Story of the Scottish Soldier, 1600-1914. National Museums of Scotland, 1992
- Enterprising Scot: Scottish Adventure and Achievement. National Museums of Scotland, 1995
- {{Cite book|last=Calder|first=Jenni|title=The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison|publisher=Virago|year=1997|isbn=1853817244}}
- Scots in the USA. Luath Press, 2006
- {{Cite book|last=Calder|first=Jenni|title=Not Nebuchadnezzar|publisher=Luath Press Ltd|year=2005|isbn=9781842820605}}
Reviews
- Clunas, Alexander (1982), review of Stevenson and Victorian Scotland, in Murray, Glen (ed.), Cencrastus No. 8, Spring 1982, pp. 42 & 42, {{issn|0264-0856}}
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Category:Alumni of New Hall, Cambridge
Category:Scottish literary historians
Category:Jewish Scottish writers
Category:British women historians
Category:20th-century Scottish historians
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Category:21st-century Scottish women writers
Category:20th-century Scottish women writers