Katharine Stewart author page

Katharine Stewart biography

Katharine Stewart was an author, crofter, teacher and postmistress. Her writing is associated with crofting and Highland life, and her best-known book is A Croft in the Hills. A Croft in the Hills was published in 1960 and describes a family living on a remote croft in the 1950s.

Her books include A Garden in the Hills, A School in the Hills, The Post in the Hills, Women of the Highlands, Crofts and Crofting, The Story of Loch Ness and Cattle on a Thousand Hills. A Life in the Hills: The Katharine Stewart Omnibus brings together work connected with her life and writing in the hills.

A Croft in the Hills has been republished and reprinted seven times. The Post in the Hills was published in 1998, The Crofting Way: Katharine Stewart’s Years on the Land was published in 1999, and Cattle on a Thousand Hills was published in 2010.