Cambridge University Press. Later life In the 1930s there followed three anthologies, some journalistic reviews, and a third biography, The Tranquil Heart (1937), about the Italian Renaissance author and poet Giovanni Boccaccio. In 1936 came a publication dedicated to Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan), written in collaboration with her husband Donald and illustrator Evelyn Dunbar (later commissioned as one of the few female official British WW2 artists): The Scots Week-End and Caledonian Vade-Mecum for Host, Guest and Wayfarer (George Routledge & Sons Ltd). In 1940 her husband Donald was killed in a street accident during the blackout. She continued to live alone in London, working on a two-volume biography of John Buchan together with his widow, Lady Tweedsmuir. Volume 1, The Clearing House, appeared in 1946 and Volume 2, John Buchan by His Wife and Friends, in 1947. Catherine Carswell died of pleurisy after pneumonia on 18 February 1946, aged 66, at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Her son John edited her fragmentary autobiographical texts and published them in 1950 as Lying Awake: An Unfinished Autobiography. Bibliography Cathe Giffuni, Jan Pilditch and Carol Anderson: Opening the Doors: The Achievement of Catherine Carswell. Carol Anderson, ed. Edinburgh: Ramsey Head Press, 2001 Selected Letters of Catherine Carswell, edited and introduced by Jan Pilditch. Kennedy & Boyd, Edinburgh, 2016 Catherine Carswell's War: Letters 1939–1946. Selected and Introduced by Jan Pilditch. Kennedy & Boyd, Edinburgh, 2016 Novels Open the Door! 1920 The Camomile 1922 Biographies The Life of Robert Burns 1930 (reissued by Canongate) The Savage Pilgrimage 1932 (a life of D. H. Lawrence) The Tranquil Heart 1937 (a biography of the 14th-century Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio) Autobiography Lying Awake 1950 (an unfinished autobiography that includes some correspondence, with an introduction by her son, John Carswell) References Further reading Opening the Doors: The Achievement of Catherine Carswell. Anderson, Carol, ed. Edinburgh: Ramsay Head Press, 2001 Catherine Carswell, A Biography. Pilditch, Jan. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2007 External links Textualities: Catherine Carswell at textualities.net 1879 births 1946 deaths Writers from Glasgow Scottish biographers Scottish women novelists Scottish journalists Scottish women journalists Scottish expatriates in Germany Alumni of the University of Glasgow Scottish Renaissance Hoch Conservatory alumni 19th-century Scottish novelists Women biographers 20th-century Scottish novelists 19th-century Scottish women writers 20th-century Scottish women writers