Born in Glasgow, after studying at the Glasgow School of Art, Morrison went on to study drama, and joined the company of Sir Frank and Lady Benson.
Ill-health forced her from the stage, and after extensive travel on the continent she began to write.
In 1939, she began work on her monumental biographical novel about the great French nineteenth century actress Rachel.
[1] Further biographical novels followed, including of Aimée du Buc de Rivéry, a first cousin of the Empress Josephine, who was rumoured to have been the same person as Nakşidil Sultan who married the Sultan of Turkey; and of the 18th‐century mystic Emanuel Swedenborg.
A spinster, Morrison was a Presbyterian and member of the Church of Scotland,[1] her family being of Covenanters stock.