Janet Hinshaw Caird (24 April 1913 – 20 January 1992) was a teacher and a 20th-century writer of Scottish mysteries, poems, and short stories.
She attended Dollar Academy in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, and the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a Master of Arts in English literature in 1935 before further study at the University of Grenoble and the Sorbonne in 1935–36.
[3] After several years at home, she returned to teaching at Dollar Academy in the 1950s before moving to Inverness in 1963.
[2] Caird also wrote short stories for publication in periodicals and anthologies,[1] and she wrote reviews and critical articles for Cencrastus, Chapman, Scottish Literary Journal, and other publications.
[2] Some of Caird's notebooks and manuscripts are held by the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.