Shepherd, Nan
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Variants
- Shepherd, Anna, 1893-1981
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1893-02-11
Death Date
- 1981-02-27
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Aberdeen College of Education
Birth Place
- Peterculter (Scotland)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
Occupation
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Sources
- found: Her The quarry wood, 1987:t.p. (Nan Shepherd) p. i (b. 1893; d. 1981)
- found: Oxford DNB online, 20 Oct. 2008(Shepherd, Anna [Nan] (1893-1981), author and college teacher)
- found: The biographical dictionary of Scottish women, ©2006(Shepherd, Anna (Nan); born East Peterculter, 11 Feb. 1893; died Aberdeen, 27 Feb. 1981; writer and teacher; Nan Shepherd was brought up in Cults, Deeside; graduated University of Aberdeen (MA 1915); letured in English at the Training Centre for Teachers (later the College of Education), Aberdeen, from 1915 until her retirement in 1956; her novels The quarry wood (1928); The weatherhouse (1930) and A pass in the Grampians (1933); a keen traveller and hill-walker, reflected in her only collection of poems, In the Cairngorms (1934), and in The living mountain: a celebration of the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland (1977))
LC Classification
- PR6069.H4535
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Change Notes
- 1988-10-19: new
- 2019-06-04: revised
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