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Margaret Tait
Margaret Caroline Tait was born at 29 Broad Street, Kirkwall, Isle of Orkney. Her parents were Mary Isbister and Charles William Tait, a General Merchant.
She studied medicine at Edinburgh University...
Margaret married Alexander Pirie in 1968 in Leith, Edinburgh.
She died aged 80...
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Dorothea Lynde Dix
Lydia Miller
The daughter of William Fraser, a merchant in Inverness and Elizabeth Lydia MacLeod, a schoolteacher.
Lydia Mackenzie Falconer became engaged to Hugh Miller in 1832. After a long engagement they married on 7 January 1837. They had four children.
She wrote under the pen name Harriet Myrtle.
After her husband's death, she continued to edit his work for publication.
She is buried with her husband in Grange cemetery, Edinburgh.
Emma MacPherson
Emma Blake married Allan MacPherson, 3rd of Blairgowrie, on 30 April 1853.
She travelled with him to Australia in 1856. She wrote an autobiography of her life in Australia "My Experiences in Australia, 1856 to 1857, by a Lady." She also painted watercolours of Australian scenes.
The family returned to Scotland. The couple had seven children, five sons and two daughters.
She was widowed in 1891. Emma MacPherson died in 1915, six weeks after the death of her son George in the Battle of Loos.
Christian Watt
Christian Watt was born on 24 February 1833 at 72 Broadsea, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, the seventh of the eight children of James Watt (1787โ1868), fisherman, and his wife, Helen Noble (1788โ1860).
She started work as a domestic servant aged eight, and at eleven went with the Broadsea fishermen to the west coast to gut and cook herring. At sixteen she went to London and worked as a domestic servant there.
In 1856 she travelled to America in order to receive money from the legacy of her late brother. Once there she worked as a tablemaid for a wealthy American family.
Sue Innes
Lorna Moon
Nora Low was born in Strichen, Aberdeenshire, in 1886, the daughter of Charles Low, plasterer, and Margaret Benzies. In 1907 she married William Hebditch, a commercial traveller. They had a son, William. They emigrated to Canada. In 1913 she left the husband and son to live with Walter Moon, with whom she had a daughter, Mary Leonore Moon. She began working as a journalist and adopted the pen-name Lorna Moon.
Val McDermid
Val McDermid was born on 4 June 1955 and grew up in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She went to Oxford University, and then worked as a journalist. Since her first book, Report for Murder, in 1984, she has sold over 10 million copies of 26 crime novels. The ITV series Wire in the Blood was based on her books.
Muriel Spark
Nan Shepherd
Nan Shepherd was an early Scottish Modernist writer, who wrote three novels set in small, fictional, communities in North Scotland. The Scottish landscape and weather played a major role in her novels and were the focus of her poetry. She also wrote one non-fiction book on hill walking, "The Living Mountain" based on her experiences walking in the Cairngorms.
Shepherd was a graduate of Aberdeen University and was a lecturer of English at the Aberdeen College of Education for most of her working life.