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Jane Duncan

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Born: March 09 1910

Died: 1919 10 19761976

Jane Duncan was the pseudonym of Scottish writer Elizabeth Jane Cameron, best-known for her My Friends series of semi-autobiographical novels. She also wrote four novels under the name of her principal heroine Janet Sandison, and some children's books. She was born in Renton, West Dunbartonshire and brought up in the Scottish Lowlands where her father was a police officer, but much of her childhood was spent in the Highlands on the Black Isle in Easter Ross, on her grandparents' croft "The Colony", the "Reachfar" of her novels. She graduated in English from the University of Glasgow and did various secretarial jobs before serving as a Flight Officer , WAAF during World War II. Afterward, she lived in Jamaica for ten years, returning to Jemimaville, near "The Colony", in 1958 as a widow. In 1959 Duncan became something of a publishing sensation when Macmillan Publishers announced that it would be publishing seven of her manuscripts. The "Reachfar" series is narrated by Janet Sandison and follows her life from the World War I period through to the 1960s, depicting the people she encounters and showing how her crofting upbringing influences her in whatever society and geographical location she finds herself.

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Jane Duncan

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Books from Jane Duncan

My Friend Sashie

My Friend Annie

My Friend My Father

My Friend Madam Zora

My Friends The Mrs. Millers (My Friends, #11)

My Friends the Misses Kindness (My Friends, #18)

My Friend The Swallow (My Friends, #16)

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