"Scottish novelist, biographer and critic Catherine Carswell was a major figure in the Scottish Renaissance. Her novels, set in the West End of Glasgow, were strikingly original. Carswell's work was also controversial. Her Life of Robert Burns produced a furore in Scottish newspapers for its depiction of the man, rather than the legend; and her biography of D.H. Lawrence, The Savage Pilgrimage, was withdrawn amid threats of legal action. As a working journalist, Carswell knew many of the great literary figures of her day in Scotland, England and America. She worked with the Irishman William Fay to write a history of the Abbey Theatre, and was a lifelong friend of the novelist D.H. Lawrence, supporting him throughout his battles with British censorship." "Born in Glasgow in the late nineteenth century, Catherine Carswell inherited the godliness, realism, modernity and sentimentality of the era. As a well-traveled twentieth-century woman, who lived in London from 1910, she visited Italy, Germany, France and met most of Stalin's cabinet in pre-war Russia. She was rebellious, determined, intellectual and no stranger to conflict."--BOOK JACKET.