Anna buchan biography

Anna Masterton Buchan – O. Douglas: This author was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife on 24 March 1877. The daughter of a minister and the sister of John Buchan, Anna Buchan was educated at Hutcheson’s Grammar School in Glasgow. Most of her life was spent in Peebles and her home appears in her writing as Priorsford. The novels of Anna Buchan were written under the name O. Douglas:

Olivia in India – 1912

The Setons – 1917

Penny Plain – 1920

Ann and her Mother – 1922

The Proper Place -1926

Jane’s Parlour – 1937

People Like Ourselves – 1938

Unforgettable, Unforgotten – 1945 – a biography of her family

Farewell to Priorsford – 1950 – autobiography, published posthumously

Anna Buchan died in Peebles in 1948.

Scottish novellist (1877–1948)

Anna Masterton Buchan (24 March 1877 – 24 November 1948) was a Scottish novelist who wrote under the pen name O. Douglas.^[1] 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 born in Pathhead, Scotland, to the Reverend John Buchan and Helen Masterton. She was the younger sister of John Buchan, the statesman and author. She attended Hutchesons' Grammar School in Glasgow, but lived most of her later life in Peebles in the Scottish border country, not far from the village of Broughton where her parents first met.^[2]

Her first novelOlivia in India was published in 1912 by Hodder & Stoughton. Unforgettable, Unforgotten (1945) is a memoir of her brother John, Lord Tweedsmuir, and the Buchan family. In it, she recounts her experience visiting her brother in Canada, where he was Governor-General

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