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Smith, Janet Adam
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9 Dec. 1905-11 Sep. 1999
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Janet Buchanan 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.
Leonard Miall wrote: “Biographer, mountaineer, critic, literary editor, textual scholar, comic versifier, visiting professor, hostess, anthologist, traveller – there seemed to be nothing at which Janet Adam Smith did not shine. And she shone with an intensity that made others glow in response.”
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Biographical sketch from Wikipedia entry on Janet Adam Smith at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Adam_Smith (accessed on 2019-08-28).