Sheila Stuart

Sheila Stuart (Gladys May Baker) (1892–1974) was a Scottish author.

Stuart's father was a Church of Scotland minister: she was born and brought up in a manse in Johnstone, 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.

Stuart 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 on 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".^[1]

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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