Typescript of Mary Ringsleben work on Gavin Douglas

The bound work on Gavin Douglas has 132pp with notes and bibliography i-xxvi.

Mary Ringsleben was an original signatory of the Committee of 100, which was founded on the initiative of Ralph Schoenman and Bertrand Russell in October 1960. This Committee called for a mass movement of civil disobedience against British government policy on nuclear weapons. Its members saw a need for more radical methods than those used by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, especially following the defeat of the Labour Party in the 1959 general election

Based in Leeds, she was an organiser of the Northern Direct Action Committee.

Ringsleben was awarded the degree of Ph.D. from Aberdeen University in 1956 for her work on Gavin Douglas - a Scottish bishop, makar and translator. She had been in contact with Scottish writer and poet Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Grieve) about it, and he had lauded her work.

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Material acquired autumn 2012. Accession no: E2012.30.

Catalogued by Graeme D. Eddie 07 December 2012

Also within Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections, is a letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to Dr. Mary R. E. Ringsleben, dated 20 August 1958, wich has accession no: E2012.17.