Excuse my dust: Introduction
Scottish Women Writers: known to the "Excuse My Dust" Group
| Margaret Oliphant | Jane Bland | Christian Watt |
| Mary Brunton | Catherine Carswell | Antonia Fraser |
| Susan Ferrier | Lady Nairne | |
| Helen Cruikshank | Anne Grant of Laggan | Still with us……… |
| Marion Reid | Jennie Lee | |
| Wendy Wood | Jean Plaidy | Janet Paisley, |
| Betsy Whyte | Catherine Carswell | Kathleen Jamie, |
| Jane Carlyle | Christian Watt | Ali Smith, |
| Mary Queen of Scots | Antonia Fraser | Janice Galloway, |
| Nan Shepherd | Mairi Hedderwick, | |
| Nancy B. Morrison | Largely Non-fiction | Liz Lochead, |
| Lorna Moon | Christine de Luca, | |
| Willa Muir | Marian F. MacNeill | Alison Kennedy, |
| Violet Jacob | Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus | Jackie Kay, |
| Naomi Mitchison | Maggie Craig | |
| Ruth Thomas | Isabella Bird Bishop | Margaret Elphinstone |
| Eona MacNicol | Mary Sommerville | Elaine C. Smith |
| Jessie Kesson | Mary MacGrigor |