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Janet Milne Rae (née Gibb, 1844–1933), usually known as Mrs. Milne Rae, was a Scottish novelist and missionary born at Willowbank, Aberdeen. Janet Gibb lost her civil engineer father, Alexander Gibb, at the age of twenty and her mother, Margaret Smith, at the age of twelve. She married a graduate of Aberdeen University, Rev. George Milne Rae, and the couple went out as missionaries to Madras, India. There her husband taught at the university and at Madras Christian College.