The family members were highly talented. One of JB
's two sisters died young; the other, Anna (1877-1948), became a well-known novelist under the name of O. Douglas
(which was also the name of her...
Family and Intimate relationships
Susan Tweedsmuir
John Buchan's sister Anna wrote under the pseudonym of O. Douglas. Olivia Douglas was the protagonist of her first novel, Olivia in India, The Adventures of a Chota Miss Sahib, 1913. Their mother...
Emmuska, Baroness Orczy,. Blue Eyes and Grey. Hodder and Stoughton, 1928.
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Timeline
1901
The publication of George Douglas Brown
's novel The House with the Green Shutters marked the first attack on the Scottish school of fiction that was afterwards known as Kailyard.