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Betsy Whyte


Born
Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland, The United Kingdom
Genre
Memoir


Betsy Whyte was born into a traveller family in 1919 and brought up in the age-old tradition of the ‘mist people’ – constantly moving around the country and settling down in one place only during the winter. It was while the family were ‘housed up’ at this time of year that she received her education, attending a number of village schools before winning a scholarship to Brechin High school, where she was the only traveller child. She gave up the traveller life when she married in 1939 and started writing about her childhood in the 1970s.

In 1988 she suffered a fatal heart attack during the weekend of a traditional ceilidh.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 523 ratings · 88 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors
The Yellow on the Broom
4.11 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1979 — 18 editions
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Haunted Voices
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3.94 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions
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Red Rowans and Wild Honey
4.24 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions
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Scottish Traditional Tales
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3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1994
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“... never leave a loved one with an angry countenance. Anything could happen in seconds, and how would a person feel if something happened to a dear one, and you had last spoken to him or her in anger.”
― Betsy Whyte, The Yellow on the Broom
tags: scottish, traveller
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“I have great respect for people with a little sense, wisdom, and understanding, but for wealth, power, and high education without at least one of the first three gifts of God, I have little respect.”
― Betsy Whyte, Red Rowans and Wild Honey
tags: scottish, traveller, wisdom
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