About Robina Forrester Hardy
Lived 1835 – 1891 (aged 55–56). Robina Forrester Hardy was a British writer and poet.
Robina Forrester Hardy (1835–1891), known professionally as Robina F. Hardy, was a Scottish Victorian author, poet and Christian missionary.
Life and career Hardy was the daughter of a doctor and grand-daughter of a minister at St. Giles' Cathedral. Her work has also been linked to the Scottish kailyard school and the popular fiction of Annie S. Swan. Other work includes her time as a cookery teacher at Dr. William Robertson's Vennel School for girls. The Pearl Necklace: a Story for the Young (1881) Little Goldenlocks (1882) Trot's message; or, 'Whom have I in Heaven but Thee?''' (1884) Katie: an Edinburgh Lassie (1886) The Good Ship Rover (1888) Hilda’s Fortune (1888) Kilgarvie (1889) Johnnie; or, 'Only a Life (1889) Diarmid; or, Friends in Kettletown (1889) Fanny's Old Frock (1890) Tibby's Tryst; or, 'I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto the Hills''' (1891) Polly, Who was 'Nobody's Child (1891) His Own Master (1891)
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Who was Robina Forrester Hardy?
Scottish poet
When was Robina Forrester Hardy born?
Robina Forrester Hardy was born in 1835 in Edinburgh.
When did Robina Forrester Hardy die?
Robina Forrester Hardy died on 12 August 1891 in Edinburgh.
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Robina Forrester Hardy was a writer and poet.
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Robina Forrester Hardy was British.
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