Sheila Stuart

Sheila Stuart (Gladys May Baker) (1892–1974) was a British author.

Stuart's father was a Church of Scotland minister: she was born and brought up in a Manse in Johnstone in Renfrewshire. She went to school in Glasgow, then entered Leng and Co of Dundee (later incorporated into D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd ) where she trained as a journalist. During the First World War she served as a VAD.

She began her career as a journalist, writing for Scottish Field and The People's Friend, although during this period she also wrote a few books about antiques.

She is best known, however, for her children's books about Alison and her brother Niall, based in the north-west of Scotland. The publication of every new book in the series caused great excitement 'among schoolgirl borrowers', because of their tales of 'courage, determination and adventure'.

Sheila Stuart died in 1974 in Crieff, Perthshire, where she had moved on her husband’s retirement.

Bibliography

• Alison’s Highland Holiday (1946)
• More Adventures of Alison (1947)
• Alison’s Christmas Adventure (1948)
• Well Done Alison! (1949)
• Alison’s Easter Adventure (1950)
• Alison’s Poaching Adventure (1951)
• Alison’s Kidnapping Adventure (1952)
• Alison’s Pony Adventure (1953)
• Alison’s Island Adventure (1954)
• Alison’s Spy Adventure (1955)
• Alison and the Witch’s Cave (1956)
• Alison’s Yacht Adventure (1957)
• Alison’s Riding Adventure (1958)
• Alison’s Cliff Adventure (1959)
• Alison’s Caravan Adventure (1960)
• The Riddle of Corran Lodge (1959)

References

• Philip, A. The Librarian and the Bookworld, J.Clarke, v. 43-44, 1954-1955