From Scotland to California
20 April 2010
Glenda Norquay, Professor of Scottish Literary Studies at LJMU, has recently been awarded a Mayers fellowship at the Huntington Library in California.
The Huntington is one of the world’s great cultural, research, and educational centres. Scholars come from around the world every year to conduct advanced humanities research using the Huntington’s magnificent collections. Every year the Library appoints a number of Fellows to work there.
Glenda will be working on the manuscript of Robert Louis Stevenson’s late, critically-neglected and unfinished novel, St Ives, as part of an Edinburgh University Press project to publish the complete works of Stevenson.
For Glenda, St Ives is particularly exciting to work on, because of its incomplete state. Three different versions of the novel exist, based on dictated notes by Stevenson, given to his amanuensis Isabel Strong, while he was living in Samoa. The published volume will bring new life to an undervalued text and provide the basis for fresh appraisal.
Glenda commented: “I’m delighted to be going to California, to work in the beautiful setting of the Huntington, and excited at the prospect of exploring the manuscript and the library’s other resources.”
The trip to California will be funded by a British Academy Travel Grant.
