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Anna Masterton Buchan

Born

in Pathhead, Fife, Scotland

March 24, 1877

Died

November 24, 1948

Genre

Fiction, Memoir

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Anna Masterton Buchan was a Scottish novelist. She wrote under the pseudonym "O. Douglas". Most of her novels were written and set between the wars and portrayed small town or village life in southern Scotland, reflecting her own life.

Anna Buchan was the daughter of the Reverend John Buchan and Helen Masterton ands the younger sister of John Buchan, the renowned author and statesman. She attended Hutchesons' Grammar School in Glasgow, but lived most of her later life in Peebles in the Scottish Borders, not far from the village of Broughton where her parents first met.

Her first novel Olivia in India was published in 1912 by Hodder & Stoughton. Unforgettable, Unforgotten (1945) is a memoir of her brother John and of the Buchan family, while F ...more

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	Unforgettable, Unforgotten by Anna Masterton Buchan, O. Douglas 4.16 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1942 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Farewell to Priorsford by Anna Masterton Buchan, O. Douglas 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1950 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penny Plain (The Priorsford trilogy, #1) by Anna Masterton Buchan, O. Douglas 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1920	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Olivia in India it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1912 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Priorsford 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Proper Place: Exploring Gender Norms and Identity in Early 20th Century Scotland really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Novels: Olivia in India, The Setons, Penny Plain, Ann and Her Mother & Pink Sugar 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Works: Tales from the Scottish Highland (Historical Novels) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It is wonderful how much news there is when people write every other day; if they wait for a month, there is nothing that seems worth telling.”
― Anna Buchan

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“I have thought of writing and trying to give a truthful picture of Scottish life - a cross between Drumtochty and The House with the Green Shutters - but it would probably be reviewed as a 'feebly written story of life in a Scots provincial town' and then I would beat my pen into a hatpin and retreat from the literary arena.”
― Anna Masterton Buchan, Penny Plain

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