Abstract
This article outlines some key elements of Dundee’s industrial literary tradition, primarily associated with the city’s jute industry, as expressed in the songs and poems of Mary Brooksbank (1897-1978). It also explores ways in which writers working from the 1980s onwards have used the memory of the jute industry, Brooksbank herself, and associated verse traditions to imagine place and work in post-industrial Dundee.
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Farley, Erin
(2025)
"Jute mill songs: Mary Brooksbank and industrial tradition in a dying industry,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 50:
Iss.
1, 9–23.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/iss1/3
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