Janet Milne Rae
Janet Milne Rae (née Gibb, 1844–1933), usually known as Mrs. Milne Rae, was a Scottish novelist and missionary born at Willowbank, Aberdeen. She began to write fiction while living in India, beginning with Morag: A Tale of Highland Life in 1872.Ja
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Janet Milne Rae (née Gibb, 1844–1933), usually known as Mrs. Milne Rae, was a Scottish novelist and missionary born at Willowbank, Aberdeen. She began to write fiction while living in India, beginning with Morag: A Tale of Highland Life in 1872.Janet Gibb lost her civil engineer father, Alexander Gibb, at the age of twenty and her mother, Margaret Smith, at the age of twelve. She married a graduate of Aberdeen University, Rev. George Milne Rae, and the couple went out as missionaries to Madras, India. There her husband taught at the university and at Madras Christian College. They returned to Edinburgh in about 1891.[1]
Back in Scotland, George Milne Rea published The Syrian Church in India (1892) and Connection between Old and New Testaments (1904), and was prominent in the United Free Church of Scotland. In the first of those books, he argued against the theory that St Thomas the Apostle had preached in India, explaining the assertion as an example of a tradition migrating with the people who believed in it, the Nestorians.[2] He died in 1917. Mrs. Milne Rae died in Edinburgh in 1933.
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