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Margaret Elphinstone, among top Scottish Women Writers of Historical Fiction (696 words) |
 | "Elphinstone’s characters often travel over huge distances: her world is one of expanding vision, an attempt to connect to a half-understood natural world, to understand the perplexities of human characters in affection as well as danger and stress. |
| In The Sea Road, an expansionist Viking world encounters strange societies in Greenland and Vinland; paganism struggles to co-exist with newly arrived Christianity, and a heroine from the sagas tells her 1000-year-old story of a world in flux. |
| Margaret Elphinstone is Professor of Writing in the Department of English Studies at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. |
| Mountstuart Elphinstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (751 words) |
| Mountstuart Elphinstone (October 6, 1779 – November 20, 1859) was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the British government of India. |
| Elphinstone assumed command of the military during an important crisis during the Battle of Kirkee and managed to secure a victory despite coming from a non-military background. |
| His connection with the Bombay Presidency was appropriately commemorated in the endowment of the Elphinstone College by local communities, and in the erection of a marble statue by the European inhabitants. |
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