2026-10-28 14:16 UTC
Jessie Kesson (1916โ1994) was born #OTD, 28 Oct. Taken from her mother at 10, she spent 6 years in an orphanage; although she displayed obvious academic talent she was denied any chance of further education & was sent into domestic servitude aged 16.
Despite these & other hardships she became a highly regarded writer whose works explore ordinary womenโs lives with clarity & poetic prose
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https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/9964/jessie-kesson-novelist
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #workingclass
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot 2026-10-28 14:17
โShe had to create herself and tell herself her own story, defining herself as best she could: this is what made ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ณ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ด in particular such an urgent and demanding taskโ โIsobel Murray, โJessie Kesson: Writing Her Selfโ 2/8 https://asls.org.uk/jessie-kesson-writing-her-self/ #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #workingclass #workingclasswriters