Robina Forrester Hardy (died 1891), known professionally as Robina F. Hardy, was a Scottish Victorian author, poet and Christian missionary.[1][2]
Robina F. Hardy
Born
Robina Forrester Hardy
1835
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died
1891
Occupation(s)
Writer, poet, editor, teacher, missionary
Notable work
Jock Halliday: a Grassmarket Hero
Glenairlie; or, the Last of the Graemes
Life and career
Hardy was the daughter of a doctor and grand-daughter of a minister at St. Giles' Cathedral.[1]
Career and Works
Hardy's fiction draws on the experiences she gained whilst working as a missionary in the Grassmarket slums, described as 'brutally realistic'. Her work has also been linked to the Scottish kailyard school and the popular fiction of Annie S. Swan.[2] Furthermore, she became a contributor and sub-editor for the Morning Rays, a Church of Scotland magazine for children, with much of her children's literature subsequently being published separately.[3] Other work includes her time as a cookery teacher at Dr. William Robertson's Vennel School for girls.[1]