by Jane Harris
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Tom Shankland: I cannot thank you enough for your help, support and advice, at every stage of the writing of this book; I definitely couldn’t have done it without you. I am eternally indebted to Petra Collins for her patience, wisdom and expertise in Scottish Law; any legal errors herein are mine. Heartfelt thanks to Lucy Mulvagh, Jamie Milne and Andrew Binnie for their encouragement and helpful feedback on early drafts of the novel. I am much obliged to Catriona and Stewart Murray and Amanda McMillan for allowing me to have a nosy around their ‘Stanley Street’ homes. For kind advice, many thanks to Alastair Dinsmor, of the Glasgow Police Heritage Society and Theo Van Asperen, of the Glasgow Art Club.
Thanks also to the following: Dr Jonathan Andrews; Jimmy Powdrell Campbell; David Lister; Dr Mark Godfrey; Professor Gordon; Robin Campbell; David Stark; Reverend Kenneth Stewart; Brian Stewart; Ronnie Scott; Kevin Brady; The Mitchell Library; University of Glasgow Library; The British Library; www.hiddenglasgow.com
I am also very grateful to Jonny Geller and Angus Cargill, and all at Curtis Brown and Faber and Faber.
Of research materials the following indispensable publications deserve mention: Public Lives: Women, Family and Society in Victorian Britain, by Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair, Yale University Press, 2003; Glasgow’s Great Exhibitions, by Perilla Kinchin and Juliet Kinchin, White Cockade Publishing, 1988; The Glasgow Boys, Roger Billcliffe, John Murray (Publishing) Ltd., 1985; Glasgow Girls, ed. by Jude Burkhauser, Canongate Books Ltd., 1993; Sir John Lavery, Photography, Glasgow International Exhibition of 1888, by Brian Thom McQuade, published by TH.A.H.M. van Asperen, Glasgow, 2006; Trial of John Watson Laurie, edited by William Roughead, Notable British Trials, William Hodge and Co. Ltd., 1932, Reprinted Gaunt, Inc. 1995; The Oscar Slater Murder Story, by Richard Whittington-Egan, Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd., 2001; Glasgow in 1901, by James Hamilton Muir, William Hodge and Co. Ltd., 1901, reprinted by White Cockade Publishing, 2001; Tea and Taste, The Glasgow Tea Rooms, 1875–1975, by Perilla Kinchin, White Cockade Publishing, 1996; Glasgow Pubs and Publicans, by John Gorevan, Tempus Publishing Ltd., 2002; The Buildings of Scotland, Glasgow, by Williamson, Riches, and Higgs, Penguin Books, 1990; The Godfrey Edition Old Ordnance Survey Maps, especially that of Hillhead, Glasgow (Lanarkshire Sheet 6.06), published by Alan Godfrey Maps, 1998; The National Library of Scotland Ordnance Survey Town Plan of Glasgow @ http://geo.nls.uk/maps/towns/glasgow1894/openlayers.html; The Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond, by Ann Griswold, York Publishing Services Ltd., 1998; First Aid to the Injured, by Dr. Friedrich Esmarch, Smith, Elder and Co, 1882, (from Archive CD Books); Lying Awake, by Catherine Carswell (1950), reprinted by Canongate Books Ltd., 1997; Open the Door, by Catherine Carswell (1920), reprinted by Virago/ Penguin, 1986.
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JANE HARRIS is the author of the award winning novel The Observations. She lives in London.
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