Margery Palmer McCulloch
Margery Palmer McCulloch was a Scottish literary scholar, author and co-editor of the Scottish Literary Review.Education and academia
Dr. Margery Palmer McCulloch was educated at the former Hamilton Academy; the University of London and the University of Glasgow and was a senior Honorary Research Fellow in Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow. She was also an elected member of Council of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies and served as Convener of the Association's Publications Board, as well as being co-editor of the Scottish Literary Review. A past Convener of the Society’s Glasgow Branch, McCulloch was also a former Honorary Secretary of the Saltire Society. She contributed to literary and cultural programmes on BBC Radio and articles to newspapers and journals, including The Herald, The Scotsman and The Times Literary Supplement.
In 1999, Dr McCulloch discovered a poem by Hugh MacDiarmid, which had been lost for 60 years. News of the poem's discovery was welcomed in the literary world. Dr McCulloch made the discovery whilst researching the archives of Catherine Carswell, a novelist and critic.
McCulloch died in Glasgow on 29 October 2019, aged 84.Works
McCulloch has an extensive list of published books and articles on Scottish literature and writers, her published works including:
