Robina F. Hardy

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Robina Forrester Hardy (died 1891), known professionally as Robina F. Hardy, was a Scottish Victorian author, poet and Christian missionary. [1] [2]

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Robina F. Hardy
Born
Robina Forrester Hardy

1835
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died1891
Occupation(s)Writer, poet, editor, teacher, missionary
Notable workJock Halliday: a Grassmarket Hero Glenairlie; or, the Last of the Graemes

Life and career

Hardy was the daughter of a doctor and grand-daughter of a minister at St. Giles' Cathedral. [1]

Career and Works

Hardy's fiction draws on the experiences she gained whilst working as a missionary in the Grassmarket slums, described as 'brutally realistic'. Her work has also been linked to the Scottish kailyard school and the popular fiction of Annie S. Swan. [2] Furthermore, she became a contributor and sub-editor for the Morning Rays, a Church of Scotland magazine for children, with much of her children's literature subsequently being published separately. [3] Other work includes her time as a cookery teacher at Dr. William Robertson's Vennel School for girls. [1]

Works

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Nash, Andrew (2007). Kailyard and Scottish Literature. Rodopi. ISBN   978-9042022034.
  3. Whittington-Egan, Richard (1991). William Roughead's Chronicles of Murder. Lochar Pub. ISBN   9780948403552.
  4. HARDY, Robina F. (1881). Hester Glen's Holidays; and how She Spent Them, Etc. Glasgow.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Hardy, Robina F. (2008). The Good Ship Rover. Dodo Press. ISBN   9781409951070.
  6. Hardy, Robina F. (1884). Tom Telfer's Shadow: A Story of Everyday Life. Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier.
  7. Blackwell, Mark (2007). The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-narratives in Eighteenth-century England. Bucknell University Press. ISBN   9780838756669.