Information AboutGeorge Douglas |
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George Douglas Brown ( 1869 - 1902 ), Novelist , who sometimes used the pen name '''George Douglas''', wrote '' The House With The Green Shutters '', which gives a strongly outlined picture of the harder and less genial aspects of Scottish life and character. It may be regarded as a useful supplement and corrective to the more roseate presentations of the Kailyard School of J. M. Barrie and " Ian Maclaren ". It made a considerable impression. The author died of pneumonia almost immediately after its publication. There is an edition with a memoir by Lang . The novel was recently re-issued by Birlinn publishing in Edinburgh. An annual event in Brown's memory The Green Shutters Festival of Working Class Writing is held each year in his birthplace Ochiltree (believed to be the model for "Barbie" the village in his most famous novel). |