Robina Forrester Hardy (died 1891), known professionally as Robina F. Hardy, was a Scottish Victorian author, poet and Christian missionary.
[1][2] Hardy was the daughter of a doctor and grand-daughter of a minister at St. Giles' Cathedral.
[1] Hardy's fiction draws on the experiences she gained whilst working as a missionary in the Grassmarket slums, described as 'brutally realistic'.
Her work has also been linked to the Scottish kailyard school and the popular fiction of Annie S.
[3] Other work includes her time as a cookery teacher at Dr. William Robertson's Vennel School for girls.