Mary Alice Faid

Mary Alice Faid (21 January 1897 – 14 January 1990), was a British writer of children's books, mostly religious fiction, and of adult fiction.^[1][2][3]

Mary Alice Faid
Born	(1897-01-21)21 January 1897[1] Greenock, Scotland[1]
Died	14 January 1990(1990-01-14) (aged 92)[1] Helensburgh, Scotland[1]
Genre	Children's literature, religious fiction, romantic fiction
Spouse	Alexander Carson Dunn[1]

Personal life

Mary Alice Faid was born in Greenock, Scotland, in 1897.^[1] Her father was a butcher.^[1] She may have attended the University of Glasgow.^[4] She married Alexander Carson Dunn in 1923 in the Primitive Methodist Church; he was a teacher.^[1] She died in Helensburgh, Scotland, in 1990.^[1]

Faid is best known for the Trudy series of ten books for children.^[1] These take the eponymous heroine from school age to adult life, with an emphasis on her involvement with the evangelistic movement and urban missions.^[1] As well as Faid's prolific output of romantic novels, she also wrote stories for women's magazines.^[5]

Selected books

Trudy series

• Trudy Takes Charge (Pickering & Inglis, 1949)
• Trudy's Island Holiday (Pickering & Inglis, 1950)
• Trudy's Uphill Road (Pickering & Inglis, 1951)
• Trudy's College Days (Pickering & Inglis, 1953)
• School Ma'am Trudy (Pickering & Inglis, 1955)
• Trudy on Her Own (Pickering & Inglis, 1957)
• Trudy's Small Corner (Pickering & Inglis, 1959)
• Trudy Married (Pickering & Inglis, 1961)
• Trudy in Demand (Pickering & Inglis, 1964)
• Trudy and Family (Pickering & Inglis, 1970)

Adult romance fiction

• Dear Dominie (Hurst & Blackett, 1954)
• A Bride for the Laird (Hurst & Blackett, 1955)
• Stairway to Happiness (Hurst & Blackett, 1955)
• Dance to your Shadow (Hurst & Blackett, 1956)
• The Singing Rain (Hurst & Blackett, 1958)
• Rodrick's Isle (Hurst & Blackett, 1959)
• Mrs. Drummond's Daughters (Hurst & Blackett, 1960)
• Daffodil Square (Hurst & Blackett, 1962)
• Love Will Venture In (Hurst & Blackett, 1963)
• The Glass Keepsake (Hurst & Blackett, 1965)
• The Walls of Rossa (Hurst & Blackett, 1967)
• The Rowan in the Rock (Hurst & Blackett, 1969)
• The Other Side of the Park (Hurst and Blackett, 1972)
• First Love, Second Love (Hurst and Blackett, 1974)
• The Daughter at Home (Hale, 1977)
• The Marshalls of Croma (Hale, 1977)
• No Stars so Bright (Hale, 1978)
• A Kiss for the Teacher (Hale, 1979)
• The Summer of the Wedding (Hale, 1980)
• Love's Ebbing Tide (Hale, 1983)