David Pryde

David Pryde was a Scottish author born in 1834 and died in 1907. Available records from Wikisource confirm works including Pleasant Recollections of a Busy Life (1893), The Highways of Literature; or, What to Read and How to Read, The Queer Folk of Fife, and Biographical Outlines of English Literature.

He also worked in education and is identified in multiple reliable biographical sources as headmaster of Edinburgh Ladies' College from 1870 to 1891. Those same sources show that he was the father of the artists James Pryde and Mabel Pryde, placing him in a family with strong literary and artistic ties.

His writing suggests a wide range: part memoir, part literary guidance, and part regional storytelling. For readers today, he is especially interesting as a Victorian-era voice who cared both about books themselves and about the distinct people and places around him.