[1][2] She was raised in Glasgow, where her brother attended Garnett Hill School and met Muirhead Bone, her future husband.
[5] The book consisted ten short stories which the preface explained would "illustrate the colorful language of working people, untainted by education.
[1] The novel follows an unmarried, middle-aged cottager, Ann Hilton, who visits the other women in her country village to give them advice.
The Oxford Companion to Edwardian fiction describes it as "a gentle, meticulously observed story ... notable for its decisive but unsensational focus on the experience of women: the male characters have walk-on parts only.
"[1] Virginia Woolf wrote a review of the novel for the Times Literary Supplement on 10 July 1913, praising its realistic portrayal of the brutality and profundity of rural living: These are pictures of an impressionist--that is to say, it is left to us to make a body for a few vivid words, but Mrs Bone's skill is indisputable.
This book was considered popular[8] and the initial print run of two hundred and fifty copies, numbered and signed by the artists and the author,[9] was reprinted as Days in Old Spain in 1939 and 1942.