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Helen Douglas-Irvine
1880–1947
A Scottish novelist, historian, and translator, she brought both scholarship and storytelling to her work. Among the first women to graduate from the University of St Andrews, she wrote historical fiction as well as studies of medieval and rural Europe.
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Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England
by Helen Douglas-Irvine
About the author
Born in Fife in 1880, she was part of the Douglas-Irvine family of Grangemuir and became one of the first women to graduate from the University of St Andrews, where she studied history.
Her writing ranged across fiction, history, and translation. Sources consistently describe her as a Scottish novelist, historian, and translator, and surviving bibliographies show work in historical fiction alongside nonfiction titles on medieval markets and on rural Europe.
She later adopted the form Helen Douglas-Irvine as her legal name and died unmarried in 1947. Though not widely known today, her career stands out for the mix of academic training and literary interests she brought to her books.