Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (24 May 1852, London – 20 March 1936, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Scottish politician, author, and journalist. After being involved in the Liberal Party and the Scottish Labour Party, Graham was one of founders of the National Party of Scotland and later served as the first president of the Scottish National Party. His prolific and diverse literary output includes essays on politics and history, biographical works, poetry, travelogues, and short stories.
Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals
- ‘Tobar na Rèil’ [prose, ENG], Volume II, Issue 2 (Spring 1905)
- ‘The Gray Kirk’ [prose, ENG], Volume III, Issue 1 (Winter 1906)
- ‘Dagos’ [prose, ENG], Volume III, Issue 3 (Summer 1906)
- ‘Falkirk Tryst’ [prose, ENG], Volume IX, Issue 3 (Summer 1912)
- ‘Prince Charlie’s Pilot’ [review, ENG; Prince Charlie’s Pilot by Ewan MacLeod], Volume X, Issue 3 (Summer 1913)
- ‘Tobar na Rèil’ [prose, GD; translated into Gaelic by Donald Forbes | Dòmhnull Foirbeiseach], Issue 16 (23 May 1908)
Resources
- Lachlan Munro & W. R. B. Cunninghame Graham (eds.), The Complete Scottish Sketches of R.B. Cunninghame Graham: ‘A Careless Enchantment’ (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
- Lachlan Munro, R. B. Cunninghame Graham and Scotland: Party, Prose, and Political Aesthetic (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
- Lachlan Munro, R. B. Cunninghame Graham’s contribution to the political and literary life of Scotland: party, prose, and the political aesthetic (PhD dissertation, University of Glasgow, 2019)
- Carla Sassi and Silke Stroh (eds.), Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and His Contemporaries (Association for Scottish Literature, 2017)