• Anna "Nan" Shepherd (11 February 1893 – 27 February 1981) was a Scottish Modernist writer and poet, best known for her seminal mountain memoir, The Living...
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  • Look up nan or NAN in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nan or NAN may refer to: Nan County, Yiyang, Hunan, China Nan Commandery, historical commandery...
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    released, whilst a new £20 note is being designed. The £5 note shows Nan Shepherd on the obverse accompanied by a quote from her 1977 book The Living Mountain...
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  • current polymer note, first issued in 2016, bears an image of author Nan Shepherd on the obverse and a pair of mackerel on the reverse. The Royal Bank...
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  • relationships with their chosen places. The chapter of the book concerning Nan Shepherd and the Cairngorm mountains was adapted for television by BBC4 and BBC...
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    adopted a new series of banknotes, made of polymer. The £5 note shows poet Nan Shepherd on the obverse accompanied by a quote from her book The Living Mountain...
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    Ellen Weeton, Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, Harriet Martineau, Virginia Woolf, Nan Shepherd, Anaïs Nin, Cheryl Strayed and Linda Cracknell (the chapters are in this...
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    the £5, came into circulation on 27 October 2016. The £5 note features Nan Shepherd on the obverse accompanied by a quote from her book 'The Living Mountain'...
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  • Bankers. Retrieved 20 February 2020. "New RBS bank notes to feature Nan Shepherd and Mary Somerville". The Scotsman. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 25 April...
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    depicted on a banknote of that denomination in that country (images of Nan Shepherd had been on a £5, Mary Somerville and Mary Slessor on a £10 and Elsie...
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  • They included Catherine Carswell (1879–1946), Willa Muir (1890–1970), Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) and most prolifically Naomi Mitchison (1897–1999). All were...
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    include: Annie Lennox, singer and member of the musical group Eurythmics Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), modernist novelist and poet Dr Nanette Milne, former Scottish...
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    Lumsden, cricketer William Lumsden, cricketer John Mortimer, cricketer Nan Shepherd, writer, whose portrait currently appears on a Scottish £5 note Peter...
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    a new issue of plastic £5 notes illustrated with a picture of author Nan Shepherd. In September 2016, the Bank of England began to issue £5 polymer notes...
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    Naan (redirect from Nan Bread)
    Naan (/nɑːn/) is a leavened, oven-baked or tawa-fried flatbread, that can also be baked in a tandoor. It is characterized by a light and fluffy texture...
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    dominate the local economy. Notable literary references include a poem Nan Shepherd wrote about Loch A'an in the 1930s. The wildlife is fairly typical of...
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    associated with the movement, who included Catherine Carswell, Willa Muir, Nan Shepherd and Naomi Mitchison. Many major Scottish post-war novelists, such as...
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    national team player, TV analyst, and co-owner of RCD Mallorca Anna (Nan) Shepherd, writer, literary critic, and teacher Archibald Smith, recipient of...
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  • Willowbank Alexander Scott (1920–1989), poet in Braid Scots and English Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), author and poet Rachel Annand Taylor (1876–1960), poet and...
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  • writer Henriette Sauret (1890–1976), French poet and political writer Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), Scottish novelist and poet Maria Shkapskaya (1891–1952)...
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  • wrote the first comprehensive history of Japan in the English language. Nan Shepherd, the Modernist writer and poet, and Eric Linklater, poet, author, and...
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    "This is my own, my native land!" "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" 1805 Nan Shepherd English "Its a grand thing to get leave to live" The Quarry Wood 1928...
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    associated with the movement, who included Catherine Carswell, Willa Muir, Nan Shepherd and Naomi Mitchison. Many major Scottish post-war novelists, such as...
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    Edwin Muir and William Soutar, the novelists Neil Gunn, George Blake, Nan Shepherd, A. J. Cronin, Naomi Mitchison, Eric Linklater and Lewis Grassic Gibbon...
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  • the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020. "The Nan Shepherd Prize – Interview with Seán Hewitt". nanshepherdprize.com. Retrieved...
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  • Helen Sedgwick (living) Alan Sharp (1934–2013), A Green Tree in Gede Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), The Quarry Wood Sara Sheridan (born 1968), The Fair Botanists...
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    (1986); The Broken Road (2013). A trilogy describing a walk across Europe. Nan Shepherd, (1977). The Living Mountain. Jon Krakauer (1990s). Into the Wild, Into...
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  • Strong Poison The Documents in the Case (written with Robert Eustace) Nan Shepherd – The Weatherhouse Upton Sinclair – Mental Radio Olaf Stapledon – Last...
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    Stair's Close Sir Walter Scott's stone slab at the Lady Stair's Close Nan Shepherd's stone slab at the Lady Stair's Close Royal Commission on Ancient and...
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    Gibbon (1901–1935) – The Mearns: The County of Kincardine, Scotland Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) – Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland South East East End Literature...
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