The poet Kathleen Jamie wrote in 2008 for the London Review of Books about romanticising landscape and male nature writers. She more recently, in 2019, revisited the topic in an interview for the Guardian: "Nature writing has been colonised by white men". Jamie was the Scottish Makar (national poet) from 2021-24, and some of her poems are online at the Scottish Poetry Library.

The Global Book Map on the Mappit site maps "more than 100,000 books ... that can be searched by countries, regions, or by any of the thousands of specific places the books are set in or are about". You can search by place to see a list of books - here is Edinburgh.

Book Corners maps book exchange locations internationally. It currently lists 37,229 community libraries and little free libraries, including 15,926 in France. The programmer is Andrea Grandi.

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham has put online an exhibition of portrait miniatures. The exhibition displays the work of women portrait artists (and some men) working from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century, and discusses themes of power and empire.

The Barber was established by a woman, Lady Martha Constance Hattie Barber (1869–1933). There is some information about her here, and a short review of an exhibition about her life here. The miniatures exhibition includes a portrait of her by Nellie Hepburn-Edmunds.