Janet Milne Rae

Born in Aberdeen in 1844 as Janet Gibb, she is usually remembered as Janet Milne Rae, or Mrs. Milne Rae. She spent part of her married life in India, where her husband, George Milne Rae, worked as a missionary and educator, and that experience shaped much of her writing.

She began publishing fiction in the 1870s, starting with Morag: A Tale of Highland Life. Her books often drew on two worlds she knew well: Scottish domestic and rural life, and the social atmosphere of British India. Titles associated with her include A Bottle in the Smoke: A Tale of Anglo-Indian Life and Geordie's Tryst: A Tale of Scottish Life.

Rae died in 1933. Though not widely known today, she stands out as a writer who combined evangelical and missionary experience with popular fiction, leaving a body of work that links Victorian Scotland with the colonial world she lived in firsthand.