Mary Alice Faid

Personal life

Mary Alice Faid was born in Greenock, Scotland, in 1897. She married Alexander Carson Dunn in 1923 in the Primitive Methodist Church; he was a teacher. She published as both Mary Alice Faid and Mary Faid.

Selected books Trudy series Trudy Takes Charge (Pickering & Inglis, 1949) Trudy's Island Holiday (Pickering & Inglis, 1950) Trudy's Uphill Road (Pickering & Inglis, 1951) Trudy's College Days (Pickering & Inglis, 1953) School Ma'am Trudy (Pickering & Inglis, 1955) Trudy on Her Own (Pickering & Inglis, 1957) Trudy's Small Corner (Pickering & Inglis, 1959) Trudy Married (Pickering & Inglis, 1961) Trudy in Demand (Pickering & Inglis, 1964) Trudy and Family (Pickering & Inglis, 1970)

Adult romance fiction Dear Dominie (Hurst & Blackett, 1954) A Bride for the Laird (Hurst & Blackett, 1955) Stairway to Happiness (Hurst & Blackett, 1955) Dance to your Shadow (Hurst & Blackett, 1956) The Singing Rain (Hurst & Blackett, 1958) Rodrick's Isle (Hurst & Blackett, 1959) Mrs. Drummond's Daughters (Hurst & Blackett, 1960) Daffodil Square (Hurst & Blackett, 1962) Love Will Venture In (Hurst & Blackett, 1963), serialised in Woman's Weekly The Glass Keepsake (Hurst & Blackett, 1965) The Walls of Rossa (Hurst & Blackett, 1967) The Rowan in the Rock (Hurst & Blackett, 1969) The Other Side of the Park (Hurst and Blackett, 1972) First Love, Second Love (Hurst and Blackett, 1974) The Daughter at Home (Hale, 1977) The Marshalls of Croma (Hale, 1977) No Stars so Bright (Hale, 1978) A Kiss for the Teacher (Hale, 1979) The Summer of the Wedding (Hale, 1980) Love's Ebbing Tide (Hale, 1983)