Janet Hinshaw Caird

Janet Hinshaw Caird (24 April 1913 – 20 January 1992) was a teacher and a 20th-century writer of Scottish mysteries, poems, and short stories. Daughter of Peter Kirkwood, a missionary, and Janet Kirkwood, she was born in Livingstonia, Malawi, and educated in Scotland. She attended Dollar Academy in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, and the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a Master of Arts in English literature in 1935 before further study at the University of Grenoble and the Sorbonne in 1935–36. After several years at home, she returned to teaching at Dollar Academy in the 1950s before moving to Inverness in 1963. Caird also wrote short stories for publication in periodicals and anthologies, Other notebooks are held by Boston University in the United States.

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