Beaton, Janet, 1922-2018 (teacher and writer)
Dates
- Existence: 1922 - 2018
Biography
Janet Beaton was born in 1922 near Haddington and attended the Knox Academy there. In 1944 she graduated with Honours in English from the University of Edinburgh, where she studied under Dover Wilson. After qualifying from Moray House she taught for a time at Gillespie's and other Edinburgh Schools. She went on to publish 16 romantic novels between 1969 and 1992 and dozens of short stories, mainly in Woman and Home and Woman's Weekly.
During her wartime student years Janet kept a diary, and after her marriage in 1950 and the arrival of three children she resumed it, writing approximately a page every day over a period of sixty years until the eve of her death. With the exception of a few years in the 1970s, when her husband was working in Manchester, and many travels recorded in her diaries, she lived continuously in East Lothian or Edinburgh until 2014.
Janet Beaton died in 2018.