Background
She was born on 27 April 1853 in the parish of Scoonie, Fife. Her father was William Black, a shipmaster,and her mother was Margaret Moyes Deas.
She was born on 27 April 1853 in the parish of Scoonie, Fife. Her father was William Black, a shipmaster,and her mother was Margaret Moyes Deas.
She wrote her first novel, In Glenoran, under the pseudonym of Bachelor of Medicine Fife.