| LC control no. | n 88668615 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6069.H4535 |
| Personal name heading | Shepherd, Nan |
| Variant(s) | Shepherd, Anna, 1893-1981 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Associated place | Aberdeen (Scotland) Cults (Scotland) |
| Birth date | 1893-02-11 |
| Death date | 1981-02-27 |
| Place of birth | Peterculter (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Aberdeen (Scotland) |
| Field of activity | Fiction Poetry Hiking |
| Affiliation | Aberdeen College of Education |
| Profession or occupation | Authors College teachers |
| Found in | Her The quarry wood, 1987: t.p. (Nan Shepherd) p. i (b. 1893; d. 1981) Oxford DNB online, 20 Oct. 2008 (Shepherd, Anna [Nan] (1893-1981), author and college teacher) The biographical dictionary of Scottish women, ©2006 (Shepherd, Anna (Nan); born East Peterculter, 11 Feb. 1893; died Aberdeen, 27 Feb. 1981; writer and teacher; Nan Shepherd was brought up in Cults, Deeside; graduated University of Aberdeen (MA 1915); letured in English at the Training Centre for Teachers (later the College of Education), Aberdeen, from 1915 until her retirement in 1956; her novels The quarry wood (1928); The weatherhouse (1930) and A pass in the Grampians (1933); a keen traveller and hill-walker, reflected in her only collection of poems, In the Cairngorms (1934), and in The living mountain: a celebration of the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland (1977)) |
| Associated language | eng |
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