The great celebrator of the Cairngorms has long been overlooked. Charlotte Peacock finally redresses the balance. Fiona Sampson The Spectator View of the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland (image: iStock) The Spectator, 6 January 2018, 9:00 AM ‘It’s a grand thing to get leave to live’, perhaps the most famous line Nan Shepherd wrote, is carved …
Woman’s Hour Thursday 14 December Poet and writer Nan Shepherd: In the 1930’s Nan Shepherd was one of Scotland’s best known poets and writers, but her masterpiece The Living Mountain languished unpublished in a drawer and she died before it became successful. Jenni speaks to Charlotte Peacock who has written her biography about how the …
Review: Into The Mountain: A Life Of Nan Shepherd, by Charlotte Peacock STUART KELLY Published: 12:19 Thursday 26 October 2017 The Scotsman The image of Nan Shepherd which now graces a £5 bank note is a curious one. She looks as if she is in fancy-dress as a Native American, or a flapper more concerned …
