HalfManHalfTitanium wrote:Sgurr wrote:Is it Willa Muir's translations, some of which Edwin Muir helped with? Amerika became America, Der Process became The Trial, Das Schloss became The Castle.
I should have cottoned on FAR EARLIER. they lived in our house for a while.
Now there's a claim to fame! How did that come about?
Tim
We have a Victorian house in St. Andrews which was built (another claim to fame) by Thomas Rodger an early photographer who lived in the one next door. Later on in Edwardian times it was occupied by Katy Heddle, daughter of Heddle, Mineralogy of Scotland fame and possibly the first Munroist before Munro...he gave his list to Munro. In the 1950s it was rented by the Muirs who didn't like St. A's much and the sentiment was returned as they were FAR too left wing for the town. It was a student "bunkhouse" in the 60s as a Canadian professor of Philosophy came knocking on the door to show his family where he had lived.