Publisher's Synopsis
Janet Milne Rae (nee Gibb, 1844-1933), usually known as Mrs Milne Ray, was a Scottish novelist and missionary who began writing fiction while living in India. Janet Gibb had lost both her parents by the age of 20 and after her marriage to the Rev George Milne Rae the couple went out as missionaries to Madras, India, where her husband taught at the university and at Madras Christian College. The Milne Raes had four children and the family returned to Edinburgh around 1891. Mrs Milne Rae's first novel Morag: A Tale of Highland Life was published in 1872, and many others, and also shorter works of fiction, were to follow. A Bottle in the Smoke: A Tale of Anglo-Indian Life, published in 1912, is set in Madras and draws on the author's own experiences of life in the city, giving an insight into Anglo-Indian society in that period.
