She had a role in the 'unofficial' James Bond film Never Say Never Again in 1983 and has also appeared in several television shows, including Taggart, Bergerac and Hannay.
Hannay argues that consciousness and the first-person point of view cannot be analysed or displaced by scientific materialism, nor can they be explained functionally, a view close to that of Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, and Ferrier.
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Hannay has translated Søren Kierkegaard, and written an intellectual biography and a monograph about his philosophy.
James Hannay McGaul (also known as J.H. McGaul) was born in Birkenhead, Wirral.
Mary Hannay Foott was born at Glasgow to a merchant, James Black, and his wife Miss Grant.
"The Nightingale", a poem in stanzas of sixteen lines, has a dedication to the Duchess of Lennox and commendatory verse by Robert Hannay, John Marshall, William Lithgow and others.
He is re-united with Hannay by chance at a harbour on the Danube, on the way to Constantinople and Turkey.
There are several stereotypical villains, in particular D'Ingraville from The Courts of the Morning, and the book also focuses on Hannay's son, Peter John, now a bright but solemn teenager.
Hannay had previously appeared in The Thirty Nine Steps (1915), his most famous adventure in which he battles German spies across England and Scotland, and two books about his activities during the First World War, Greenmantle (1916) and Mr Standfast (1919).