Open the door. Catherine Carswell's escape from a bad marriage
Catherine Carswell IN May 1908 The Times published a court report on a landmark trial, “a wife’s suit for the nullity of marriage on the ground that at the time of marriage the husband was insane and incapable of contracting marriage.” The wife in question would go on to become one of Scotland’s most significant, though relatively under-appreciated writers, one of the few women who made a mark in the 20th century Scottish renaissance, Catherine Carswell. Carswell would write Open The Door, a ground-breaking and highly-autobiographical novel about a young woman’s sexual awakening...