Philip Keddie

The father had died well before this, in 1852.

ST 's father, Philip Keddie , was parish-educated. He left his poor home in the town of Wemyss to become a clerk in a lawyer's office at nearby Cupar. He later qualified and practised...

At a later stage two nursemaids were employed to assist with the younger children in the family: elderly and experienced Bell, who told fantastic nursery tales, and younger and less imaginative Nellie. Eventually the illiterate...

ST 's first novel, The Kinnears: A Scottish Story, appeared anonymously in three volumes at London, but not in time for her father (who took a keen interest in her emergence as an...