Jenni Calder

Author of Guide to the Museum of Scotland

About the Author

Jenni Calder was with the National Museum of Scotland for 23 years and has taught and lectured on literary and historical subjects in various capacities and countries. She has published widely in Scottish fiction, poetry and historical writing, including The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison (1997), show more RLS: A Life Study (1980) and Scots in Canada (2003). show less

Includes the names: Jenni Calder, Jenni Daiches, Jenni Calder, ed, editor- Jenni Calder, edited by Jenni Calder, Compiled by Jenni Calder

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Jenni Calder was born in the US but moved to Scotland in 1971. She formerly worked for the National Museums of Scotland. She has written and lectured widely on Scottish, English, American literary and historical subjects. She writes fiction and poetry as Jenni Daiches.

Works by Jenni Calder

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Guide to the Museum of Scotland (1998) 40 copies

Women and marriage in Victorian fiction (1976) 37 copies

R L S: A Life Study (1980) 30 copies, 1 review

Scots in Canada (2003) 27 copies

The Wealth of a Nation in the National Museums of Scotland (1989) 22 copies

There must be a Lone Ranger: The American West in film and in reality (McGraw Hill paperbacks) (1974) 21 copies, 1 review

Robert Louis Stevenson: Selected Poems (Phoenix Poetry) (2004) 19 copies

Somewhere Else (2024) 16 copies

Scott (1969) — Author — 16 copies

The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison (1997) 16 copies

The Victorian Home (1977) 15 copies, 1 review

Huxley and Orwell: "Brave New World" and "Nineteen Eighty Four" (Study in English Literature) (1976) 12 copies

Scotland in Trust: The National Trust for Scotland (1990) 11 copies

The Robert Louis Stevenson Companion (1980) 11 copies

The Enterprising Scot: Scottish adventure and achievement (three copies) (1986) 9 copies

Lost in the Backwoods: Scots and the North American Wilderness (2013) 9 copies

The Story of the Scottish Soldier, 1600-1914: Bonny Fighters (1987) 8 copies

Treasure Islands: Robert Louis Stevenson Centenary Anthology (1994) 8 copies

Scots in the USA (2006) 8 copies

The Burning Glass: The Life of Naomi Mitchison (2019) 7 copies

Frontier Scots: The Scots Who Won The West (2010) 6 copies

The Victorian and Edwardian Home from Old Photographs (1979) 4 copies

Present Poets: Poems for the Museum of Scotland (1998) 3 copies

Letters from the Great Wall (2006) 3 copies

Chronicles of conscience (1968) 2 copies

Existential Edinburgh: An Eccentric Odyssey (2018) 2 copies

If it wasnae for the weaver the work of the weaver in Scotland 2 copies

Translated kingdoms : Scottish poems of the sea (1999) 2 copies

Smoke (2005) 2 copies

Stevenson and Victorian Scotland (1981) 2 copies

Museum publications : problems and potential (1988) 1 copy

Selected Poems 1 copy

Jenni Daiches: Mediterranean (Scottish Contemporary Poets) (1995) 1 copy

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (1886) — Editor — 767 copies, 10 reviews

Robert Louis Stevenson [Everyman's Poetry] (1997) — Editor, some editions — 19 copies

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Legal name: Calder, Jenni
Other names: Daiches, Jenni
Birthdate: 1941-12-03
Gender: female
Education: University of Cambridge (B.A.|first class honors|1963)
University of London (M.Phil.|1965|first class honors)
Occupations: lecturer
museum editor
literary historian
Organizations: University of Nairobi
Royal Scottish Museum (now National Museums of Scotland)
Relationships: Daiches, David (father)
Calder, Angus (former husband)
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: USA
Places of residence: Scotland, UK
Disambiguation notice: Jenni Calder was born in the US but moved to Scotland in 1971. She formerly worked for the National Museums of Scotland. She has written and lectured widely on Scottish, English, American literary and historical subjects. She writes fiction and poetry as Jenni Daiches.
Associated Place (for map): Scotland, UK

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DinadansFriend 3,986 reviews

There must be a Lone Ranger : the American West in film and in reality by Jenni Calder

I am fond of this book. It does acknowledge that we live in a media stew, where a cinematic coup will override the efforts of several conscientious diarists and researchers. The real west has a lot to offer the person who looks things up, the drama can also be concocted for the adrenaline freaks. I enjoy the tension, and some of each of the major tropes. Eventually we will get more entertainments like the Deadwood mini-series that blend the two streams effectively.
This is a book to read by show more those building a critical apparatus for serious study. show less

Apr 21, 2014 (Edited)

TheTortoise 54 reviews

R.L.S.: A Life Study (A Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson) by Jenni Calder

RLS, is, of course, Robert Louis Stevenson. This well researched and fluently written book interweaves the life and the works to produce a sensitive, sympathetic and intelligent life study.

Sep 17, 2008

CathyLockhart 4,483 reviews

The Victorian Home by Jenni Calder