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evidence: Agnes Mure Mackenzie -LRB- 9 April 1891 -- 26 February 1955 -RRB- was a Scottish historian and writer .. Scottish. Scotland. Her middle name is frequently misspelled Muir .. Daughter of physician and surgeon Dr Murdoch Mackenzie and Sarah Agnes Mackenzie -LRB- nee Drake -RRB- , Agnes was born in Stornoway on Lewis , then a busy fishing port .. Stornoway. Stornoway. Lewis. Lewis. In childhood she was taken seriously ill with scarlet fever , the after-effects of which left her with poor hearing and eyesight .. scarlet fever. scarlet fever. Educated at home until the age of fourteen , she then attended the Nicolson Institute until the age of seventeen .. Nicolson Institute. Nicolson Institute. She then left Lewis for Aberdeen .. Lewis. Lewis. Aberdeen. Aberdeen. As an undergraduate at the University of Aberdeen she studied English literature and edited the university magazine .. Aberdeen. Aberdeen. University of Aberdeen. University of Aberdeen. During the First World War she was an assistant lecturer at the University and an instructor at the local teacher training centre .. First World War. First World War. After the war she worked as an assistant lecturer at Birkbeck College but was dismissed after five years .. Birkbeck College. Birkbeck, University of London. She described herself as having `` no money , no sort of influence , and no professional training of any kind , except a completely useless Arts degree '' .. This crisis led to her career as a novelist .. Her first novel Without Conditions was published in 1923 -- The Quiet Lady , a semi-sequel , appeared in 1926 -- and her dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Letters , The women in Shakespeare 's plays , was published in 1924 .. Doctor of Letters. Doctor of Letters. Seen as a `` new and distinctly feminist approach to the topic '' -LRB- Noble , quoting Lenz , Greene & Neely -LRB- eds -RRB- , The Women 's Part  : Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare -RRB- , this was reprinted on four occasions during the twentieth century .. She published two more novels , a play , two works of literary criticism -- The Process of Literature and The Playgoer 's Handbook to the English Renaissance Drama -- during the 1920s .. Mackenzie was a frequent contributor of reviews to The Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman , she also lectured , and worked as a reader for publishers .. The Times Literary Supplement. The Times Literary Supplement. New Statesman. New Statesman. It appeared as though Mackenzie would return to working as an educator when she was hired to teach an adult education course on Scottish literature .. Scottish. Scotland. Scottish literature. Scottish literature. However , enrollments for the course were insufficient and it was cancelled .. She made use of her preparations for teaching the course to produce An Historical Survey of Scottish Literature to 1714 , published in 1933 .. Scottish. Scotland. This work also led to her 1934 biography of King Robert , Robert Bruce , King of Scots .. Robert. Robert I of Scotland. A controversial work , but well received by the reading public and reprinted , Mackenzie 's study was the first serious effort which matched the popular conception of Bruce as hero , rather than the hitherto predominant academic view of Bruce as `` a treacherous and rather contemptible figure '' -LRB- Noble , quoting Mackenzie -RRB- .. She wrote two historical novels for younger readers on Bruce 's life , I was at Bannockburn -LRB- 1939 -RRB- and Apprentice Majesty -LRB- 1950 -RRB- .. Robert Bruce , King of Scots was retrospectively subsumed into Mackenzie 's six-volume history of Scotland as volume two .. Robert. Robert I of Scotland. The other volumes were The Foundations of Scotland -LRB- 1938 -RRB- , The Rise of the Stewarts -LRB- 1935 -RRB- , The Scotland of Queen Mary and the religious wars 1513 -- 1638 -LRB- 1936 -RRB- , The Passing of the Stewarts -LRB- 1937 -RRB- , and Scotland in modern times 1720 -- 1939 -LRB- 1941 -RRB- .. The single-volume The Kingdom of Scotland  : a short History appeared in 1940 , while a school textbook history , A History of Britain and Europe for Scottish Schools , was published in 1949 .. Scottish. Scotland. She also produced a four-volume series , Scottish Pageant -LRB- 1946 -- 1950 -RRB- , which presented translated excerpts from documents relating to Scotland for a mass audience .. Scottish. Scotland. A member of the Scottish Episcopal Church , Mackenzie was not afraid to criticise Scotland 's sacred cows , comparing John Knox to Adolf Hitler and describing John Calvin 's Geneva as a totalitarian statelet .. Scottish. Scotland. Scottish Episcopal Church. Scottish Episcopal Church. sacred cows. national myth. John Knox. John Knox. Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler. John Calvin. John Calvin. Geneva. Geneva. totalitarian. totalitarian. In 1941 she was elected as the Honorary President of the Saltire Society .. Saltire Society. Saltire Society. Her 1942 pamphlet for the Society , The Arts and the Future of Scotland , rejected the idea of national art as proposed by Hugh MacDiarmid and J. D. Fergusson .. Hugh MacDiarmid. Hugh MacDiarmid. J. D. Fergusson. J. D. Fergusson. She was made a commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1945 for services to Scottish literature and Scottish history .. Scottish. Scotland. Order of the British Empire. Order of the British Empire. Scottish literature. Scottish literature. Scottish history. Scottish history. In 1951 she received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Aberdeen .. Aberdeen. Aberdeen. Doctor of Laws. Doctor of Laws. She died suddenly in Edinburgh in 1955 .. Edinburgh. Edinburgh. The Saltire Society established the Saltire History Book of the Year Award in her honour on the tenth anniversary of her death .. Saltire Society. Saltire Society