Mary Williamina Findlater (March 28, 1865, Lochearnhead

Lochearnhead

Lochearnhead is a village on the A84 Stirling to Crianlarich road at the foot of Glen Ogle, north of the Highland Boundary Fault...

 - November 22, 1963, St Fillans

St Fillans

St Fillans is a village in the central highlands of Scotland, in the district of Perth and Kinross.It lies at the eastern end of Loch Earn, 6 km west of Comrie on the A85 road. St Fillans was a small clachan in the 18th century, known as Port of Lochearn, or Meikleport...

) was a Scottish

Scotland

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 novelist.

Born in Perthshire

Perthshire

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 as the daughter of a minister of the Free Church of Scotland

Free Church of Scotland (1843-1900)

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, Findlater wrote novels and poetry both alone (Songs and Sonnets, 1895; Betty Musgrave, 1899; A Narrow Way, 1901; The Rose of Joy, 1903; and others) and together with her sister Jane

Jane Findlater

Jane Helen Findlater was a Scottish novelist whose first book, The Green Graves of Balgowrie, started a successful literary career: for her sister Mary as well as for herself. They are known for their collaborative works of fiction as well as their own individual writing...

 (Tales That Are Told, 1901; Beneath the Visiting Moon, 1923; etc.), with whom she lived until the latter's death in 1946. Their best-known and most widely admired collaboration is the novel Crossriggs (1908), re-issued in 1986 by Virago Press

Virago Press

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Source

• Jane Eldridge Miller, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography