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Timeline
A chronology of writers and their work

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Lessons
The fundamentals of exam English

Higher English/Higher Still
A new guide to the Scottish Higher
Feb 10th Latest news

Shakespeare
What you need to know about the great man: exams, general reading

FAQs
When do you use an apostrophe? Etc.

Creative Writing
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to creative writing studies

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General sites:

The PureFiction site is a good starting point for studying writers on the web

Drew's Script-O-Rama is the best source for screenplays on the web

The Association for Scottish Literary Studies publishes Scotnotes, the Coles Notes of Scottish Literature

Scottish Writers on the Internet is another source of links to Scottish writers, past and present and includes a history of Scottish Literature - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

The BBC- great things are promised by the BBC with regard to educational resources on the Web; we'll keep you posted

General Resources

More resources

Alphabetical, by author or subject:

The Ballads

John Barbour

Blin Harry

Robert Burns, naturally, has a number of sites devoted to him; try 1 or 2 or 3

Geoffrey Chaucer

Philip K. Dick

William Dunbar

Robert Fergusson

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Hamish Henderson

Robert Henryson

James Hogg

Ted Hughes: there's nothing like death for getting attention - well, it worked for Elvis and Jim Reeves

James Joyce
who also makes an appearance on 2

The Kailyard

Ursula K. LeGuin

Hugh MacDiarmid

Christopher Marlowe

Neil Munro - the creator of Para Handy

Allan Ramsay

Alexander Scott

Walter Scott

William Shakespeare: summaries, glossaries, characters - the best of many sites
or2which is another useful site

Iain Crichton Smith

William Soutar

John Steinbeck


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