Robina Forrester Hardy (died 1891), known professionally as Robina F. Hardy, was a Scottish Victorian author, poet and Christian missionary.[1][2]

Robina F. Hardy
Born
Robina Forrester Hardy

18—?
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died1891
Occupation(s)Writer, poet, editor, teacher, missionary
Notable workJock Halliday: a Grassmarket Hero Glenairlie; or, the Last of the Graemes

Life and career

Hardy was the daughter of a doctor and grand-daughter of a minister at St. Giles' Cathedral.[1]

Career and Works

Hardy's fiction draws on the experiences she gained whilst working as a missionary in the Grassmarket slums, described as 'brutally realistic'. Her work has also been linked to the Scottish kailyard school and the popular fiction of Annie S. Swan.[2] Furthermore, she became a contributor and sub-editor for the Morning Rays, a Church of Scotland magazine for children, with much of her children's literature subsequently being published separately.[3] Other work includes her time as a cookery teacher at Dr. William Robertson's Vennel School for girls.[1]

Works

  • Whin-bloom (1879; poems)[1]
  • Hester Glen's Holidays, and How She Spent Them (1881)[4]
  • The Pearl Necklace: a Story for the Young (1881)[5]
  • Little Goldenlocks (1882)[5]
  • Nannette's New Shoes (1882)[5]
  • Jock Halliday: a Grassmarket Hero (1883)[2]
  • Glenairlie; or, the Last of the Graemes (1884)[2]
  • Tom Telfer's Shadow: a Story of Everyday Life (1884)[6]
  • Trot's message; or, 'Whom have I in Heaven but Thee?' (1884)
  • Katie: an Edinburgh Lassie (1886)[2]
  • The Story of a Cuckoo Clock (1887)[7]
  • The Good Ship Rover (1888)[5]
  • Kilgarvie (1889)[5]
  • Johnnie; or, 'Only a Life' (1889)[5]
  • Diarmid; or, Friends in Kettletown (1889)[5]
  • Fanny's Old Frock (1890)[5]
  • Tibby's Tryst; or, 'I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto the Hills' (1891)[5]
  • Polly, Who was 'Nobody's Child' (1891)[5]
  • His Own Master (1891)[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Reilly, Catherine (2000). Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879. A&C Black. ISBN 9780720123180.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Nash, Andrew (2007). Kailyard and Scottish Literature. Rodopi. ISBN 978-9042022034.
  3. ↑ Whittington-Egan, Richard (1991). William Roughead's Chronicles of Murder. Lochar Pub. ISBN 9780948403552.
  4. ↑ HARDY, Robina F. (1881). Hester Glen's Holidays; and how She Spent Them, Etc. Glasgow.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Hardy, Robina F. (2008). The Good Ship Rover. Dodo Press. ISBN 9781409951070.
  6. ↑ Hardy, Robina F. (1884). Tom Telfer's Shadow: A Story of Everyday Life. Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier.
  7. ↑ Blackwell, Mark (2007). The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-narratives in Eighteenth-century England. Bucknell University Press. ISBN 9780838756669.
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