Introduction; 1. ‘Her Heritage was that Tragic Optimism’: Edwardian Pastoral; 2. ‘The Common Life’: Women and Men after the General Strike; 3. ‘She Had Finished with Men Forever’: Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Grey Granite; 4. ‘The Raw Material of History’: John Sommerfield’s May Day; 5. ‘None of That “My Good Woman” Stuff’: Outsider Observations; Conclusion.