Janet Adam Smith

Janet Adam Smith was a writer, editor, literary journalist and champion of Scottish literature. She was active from the 1930s through to the end of the century and noted for her elegant prose, her penetrating judgement, her independence of mind and her deep love of mountains and mountaineering.

She was born into the old Scots intellectual elite. Her father, Sir George Adam Smith FBA , was a Biblical scholar, Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis, at the Free Church College in Glasgow, and then, from 1909 to 1935, Principal of Aberdeen University. Her mother was Lilian Adam Smith, daughter of Sir George Buchanan, FRS, in whose honour the Royal Societys Buchanan Medal was created. Janet was brought up in a tradition of high thinking and simple but certainly not austere living.

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