Name Sheila Stuart | Role Author | |
Books Alison's Christmas Adventure, Alison and the Witch's Cave | ||
Sheila Stuart (Gladys May Baker) (1892–1974) was a Scottish author.
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Early life
Stuart's father was a Church of Scotland minister: she was born and brought up in a manse in Johnstone, Renfrewshire. She went to school in Glasgow, then entered Leng and Co of Dundee (later incorporated into D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd), where she trained as a journalist. During the First World War she served as a VAD.
Stuart began her career as a journalist,= writing for Scottish Field and The People's Friend, although during this period she also wrote a few books on antiques.
Children's writer
She is best known, however, for her children's books about Alison and her brother Niall, based in the north-west of Scotland. The publication of every new book in the series caused great excitement "among schoolgirl borrowers", because of their tales of "courage, determination and adventure".
Death
Sheila Stuart died in 1974 in Crieff, Perthshire, where she had moved on her husband's retirement.