A' Ae 'Oo'

by Jean Baxter, John Malcolm Bulloch (Introduction)

Poetry in Scots.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1928

About the author

Jean Baxter, née Smythe, wrote poetry in Scots. She was born into a farming family in Aberdeenshire at the end of the 19th century and grew up in Echt. After her marriage, she lived in the south of England. She was an inspiration for the character of Chris Guthrie in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel, Sunset Song (1932).

Jean began her education at the village school in Echt in 1891. In 1899, when she was enrolled at Albyn Place School in Aberdeen, leaving at the age of eighteen after she was awarded her Higher Certificate in 1904.