Janet Caird

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Janet Caird


Born
in Livingstonia, Malawi
April 24, 1913

Died
January 01, 1994

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Janet Hinshaw Caird was a teacher and a 20th-century writer of Scottish mysteries, poems, and short stories. Daughter of Peter Kirkwood, a missionary, and Janet Kirkwood, she was born in Livingstonia, Malawi, and educated in Scotland. She attended Dollar Academy in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, and the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a master of arts in English literature in 1935 before further study at the University of Grenoble and the Sorbonne in 1935–36.

She married James Bowman Caird in 1938, and they had two daughters. She taught English and Latin at Park School for Girls in Glasgow in 1937–38, at Royal High School, Edinburgh in 1940–41, and at Dollar Academy from 1941 to 1943. After several years at home, she returned to teaching
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The Umbrella-Maker's Daughter

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Perturbing Spirit

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Murder Scholastic

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In a Glass Darkly

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Murder Reflected

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A Distant Urn

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Some Walk a Narrow Path

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