Sheila Stuart

Sheila Stuart (Gladys May Baker) (1892-1974) was a British author.

Stuart's father was a Church of Scotland minister: she was born and brought up in a Manse in Johnstone in Renfrewshire. She went to school in Glasgow, then entered Leng and Co of Dundee (later incorporated into D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd ) where she trained as a journalist. During the First World War she served as a VAD.

She began her career as a journalist, writing for "Scottish Field" and The People's Friend, although during this period she also wrote a few books about antiques.

She is best known, however, for her children's books about Alison and her brother Niall, based in the north-west of Scotland. The publication of every new book in the series caused great excitement 'among schoolgirl borrowers', because of their tales of 'courage, determination and adventure'. [ Philip, 145]

Sheila Stuart died in 1974 in Crieff, Perthshire, where she had moved on her husband’s retirement.

Bibliography

*"Alison’s Highland Holiday" (1946)
*"More Adventures of Alison" (1947)
*"Alison’s Christmas Adventure" (1948)
*"Well Done Alison!" (1949)
*"Alison’s Easter Adventure" (1950)
*"Alison’s Poaching Adventure" (1951)
*"Alison’s Kidnapping Adventure" (1952)
*"Alison’s Pony Adventure" (1953)
*"Alison’s Island Adventure" (1954)
*"Alison’s Spy Adventure" (1955)
*"Alison and the Witch’s Cave" (1956)
*"Alison’s Yacht Adventure" (1957)
*"Alison’s Riding Adventure" (1958)
*"Alison’s Cliff Adventure" (1959)
*"Alison’s Caravan Adventure" (1960)
*"The Riddle of Corran Lodge" (1959)

References

*Philip, A. "The Librarian and the Bookworld", J.Clarke, v. 43-44, 1954-1955

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