Willa Muir

Willa Muir (née Anderson; 13 March 1890 – 22 May 1970), also known as Agnes Neill Scott, was a Scottish novelist, essayist and translator.

[3] In 1919 she married the poet Edwin Muir[1] and gave up her job in London as assistant principal of Gipsy Hill teacher training college.

[9] The couple spent considerable time touring in Europe and she expressed some regret that she had lost a home.

[10] When Willa and her husband met Lewis in the mid-1920s, she recorded her sense that he was "one of those Englishmen who do not have the habit of talking to women.

[1] Her 1936 book Mrs Grundy in Scotland is an investigation of the anxieties and pressure to conform to respectability norms in Scottish life.