Helen Douglas Irvine

Helen Douglas Irvine (born Helen Florence Douglas-Irvine; 29 February 1880 – 22 May 1946) was a Scottish novelist, historian and translator and was one of the Douglases of Grangemuir. She was one of the first female graduates of St Andrews University[1] having read History, near her family home Grangemuir, near Pittenweem in Fife.

Helen Douglas-Irvine

She was the daughter of Walter Douglas-Irvine and Anne Frances (née Lloyd), granddaughter of Lord William Robert Keith Douglas (the younger brother of both Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry and John Douglas, 7th Marquess of Queensberry).[2]

She was a clerk with the French Red Cross during the First World War.[3]

Death

She died on 22 May 1946 from pneumonia in Chile while researching a book on early Spanish colonial life, she was buried in Dunino, Fife.[4][5] She was also a contributing author to the Victoria County History. [6]

Works

Novels
  • Magdalena (1936)
  • Fray Mario (1939)
  • Mirror of a Dead Lady (1940)
  • Angelic Romance (1941)
  • Sweet is the Rose (1944)
  • 77 Willow Road (1945)
  • Torchlight Procession (1946)

Historical writing
  • Royal Palaces of Scotland (1911)
  • History of London (1912)
  • The Making of Rural Europe (1923)

Translations
  • (with W.D. MacInnes) Emile Legouis and Louis Cazamian, A History of English Literature (1926)

References
  1. The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art, 17 December 1908. Helen Douglas Irvine MA (St Andrews), "The Case for the Scottish Graduates".
  2. "Helen Douglas-Irvine, 1880-1947". www.douglashistory.co.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  3. National Archives Catalogue
  4. "Deaths". The Times (50464). London. 29 May 1946. p. 1.
  5. ""Dunino - Distingished Author". St Andrews Citizen. 10 August 1946. p. 6.
  6. "Helen Douglas-Irvine, 1880-1947". www.douglashistory.co.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
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