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James Boswell
Author, diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson
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Mary Brunton
Best-selling early 19th Century author of novels centred on strong female characters.
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Cicely Fairfield AKA Rebecca West
Lifelong political activist, renowned writer and reporter on the Nuremberg trials
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Susan Ferrier
Popular nineteenth-century novelist
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Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
Campaigner for social justice and internationally famous man of adventure
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Christian Isobel Johnstone
Pioneering publisher and advocate for social reform
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Joseph Lee
Poet, artist, cartoonist and journalist, described as “Scotland’s forgotten war poet”
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Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir
Eighteenth-century Gaelic poet
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Sorley MacLean
Twentieth-century Gaelic poet
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Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
Soldier and war poet
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Allan Ramsay
Literary impresario of Edinburgh’s Enlightenment
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Mary Somerville
Astronomer, scientist and polymath, known as ‘the queen of science’