Jane Helen Findlater

Born in Edinburgh on November 4, 1866, and raised in a minister’s family, she became part of the writing pair often known as the Findlater sisters. She was the daughter of Rev. Eric John Thomson Findlater and Sarah Borthwick, and she grew up in Scotland with her sisters, including fellow novelist Mary Findlater.

Her best-known early success was The Green Graves of Balgowrie (1896), a novel that opened the way for a long literary career. She wrote both independently and in collaboration with Mary, and their books were admired for their sharp but sympathetic portraits of Scottish domestic and community life.

She died on May 20, 1946, in Comrie. Today she is remembered as part of a distinctive sisterly literary partnership, as well as a novelist whose own work captured everyday feeling and social detail with wit and care.