Catherine irvine gavin biography sample

Gavin was an active participant in the Debater and Dramatic Society, and specialised in the ''Aberdeen quine (lass)'' comic roles for which her command of local dialect fitted her extremely well.

She graduated with first-class honours in History and English, and then chose to specialise in History. Completing her doctorate, on Louis Philippe of France, in 1931, Dr Gavin then began a career as a lecturer in History at the universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow.

In the 1930s she also had political ambitions and stood twice, unsuccessfully, as a Unionist (Conservative) candidate in parliamentary elections. During this period she wrote not only historical studies but also four much-neglected and highly readable novels, published between 1938 and 1944, which deal with life in contemporary Scotland.

These books will repay study both as examples of the development of Scottish women's writing of the 1930s and 1940s, and as chronicles of the interplay between Scottish and