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Jane Duncan

Born

in Renton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, The United Kingdom

March 10, 1910

Died

October 20, 1976

Genre

Fiction, Children's

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Jane Duncan was the pseudonym of Scottish writer Elizabeth Jane Cameron, best-known for her My Friends series of semi-autobiographical novels. She also wrote four novels under the name of her principal heroine Janet Sandison, and some children's books. She was born in Renton, West Dunbartonshire and brought up in the Scottish Lowlands where her father was a police officer, but much of her childhood was spent in the Highlands on the Black Isle in Easter Ross, on her grandparents' croft "The Colony", the "Reachfar" of her novels. She graduated in English from the University of Glasgow and did various secretarial jobs before serving as a Flight Officer (Intelligence), WAAF during World War II. Afterward, she lived in Jamaica for ten years, re ...more

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Average rating: 4.26 · 1,673 ratings · 192 reviews · 52 distinct works • Similar authors

	My Friends the Miss Boyds (My Friends, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 1959 — 27 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
	My Friend Muriel (My Friends, #2) 4.09 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1959 — 19 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
	My Friend Sashie (My Friends, #17) 4.51 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1972 — 14 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
	My Friend My Father (My Friends, #13) 4.49 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1966 — 13 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
	My Friends George and Tom (My Friends, #19) 4.53 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1976 — 12 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
	My Friend Annie (My Friends, #4) 4.16 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1961 — 17 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
	My Friend Monica (My Friends, #3) 4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1960 — 17 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
	My Friend Sandy (My Friends, #5) 4.27 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1961 — 17 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
	My Friend Madam Zora (My Friends, #8) 4.27 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1963 — 15 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
	My Friends The Hungry Generation (My Friends, #15) 4.38 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1968 — 15 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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My Friends (19 books)
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Jane Duncan

4.24 avg rating — 1,530 ratings

Janet Reachfar (3 books)
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Jane Duncan,

Mairi Hedderwick (Illustrator)

4.32 avg rating — 57 ratings

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“But, darling, all tycoons are illiterate. Illiteracy is the basic sine qua non for tycoonery.”
― Jane Duncan, My Friend Sashie

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