Val McDermid hopes to revive the memory of 19th-century author Susan FerrierEdinburgh’s eerie gothic past,with its notorious “resurrection men” digging up graves under cover of the night in order to supply medical students with cadavers to dissect, is to receive a positive spin this fresh Year’s Day.
Once the revelry of the citys Hogmanay celebrations has dwindled, and the Scottish author Val McDermid has a plan to “resurrect” a forgotten literary heroine – the 19th-century Scottish novelist Susan Edmonstone Ferrier.
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Source: guardian.co.uk