It tells the story of Chris Guthrie, a young woman growing up in the north-east of Scotland in the early 20th century. A Scots Quair, with its combination of stream-of-consciousness, lyrical use of dialect, and social realism, is considered to be among the defining works of the 20th century Scottish Renaissance. Wells, but it was his trilogy entitled A Scots Quair, and in particular its first book Sunset Song, with which he made his mark.
Mitchell gained attention from his earliest attempts at fiction, notably from H. He suffered an early death in 1935 from peritonitis, brought on by a perforated ulcer. He began writing full time in 1929, producing numerous books and shorter works under his real name and his pseudonym. When he married Rebecca Middleton (known as Ray) in 1925, they settled in Welwyn Garden City. In the RAF he worked as a clerk and spent some time in the Middle East. In 1919, Mitchell joined the Royal Army Service Corps and served in Iran, India and Egypt before enlisting in the Royal Air Force in 1920.
During that time he was active with the British Socialist Party. Gibbon grew up in Stonehaven, and attended Mackie Academy. He was best known for A Scots Quair, a trilogy set in the north-east of Scotland in the early 20th century, of which all three parts have been serialised on BBC television.īorn in Auchterless and raised from the age of seven in Arbuthnott, in the former county of Kincardineshire, Mitchell started working as a journalist for the Aberdeen Journal in 1917 and later for the Farmers Weekly after moving to Glasgow. Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer. Memorial to Lewis Grassic Gibbon in Arbuthnott kirkyard
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