Sara Seale, was the pseudonym by Mary Jane MacPherson (d. ) and/or A.D.L. MacPherson (d. ), a British writing team of over 45

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s as from 1932 to 1971. Seale was one of the first

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's authors published in Germany and the Netherlands. By the 1950s Seale was earning over £3,000/year.

Biography

Mary Jane MacPherson began writing at an early age while still in her convent school. Besides being a writer, MacPherson was also a leading authority on Alsatian dogs, and was a judge at

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.Turn to the West 1985 edition (), back cover text

Bibliography

Single novels

*''Beggars May Sing'' (1932) *''Grace Before Meat'' (1932) *''Chase the Moon'' (1933) *''Summer Spell'' (1937) *''This Merry Bond'' (1938) *''Spread Your Wings'' (1939) ''My Heart's Desire'' *''Green Grass Growing'' (1940) *''Barn Dance'' (1941) a.k.a. ''Queen of Hearts'' *''Stormy Petrel'' (1941) *''The Silver Sty'' (1942) *''House of Glass'' (1944) a.k.a. ''Maggy'' *''Folly to Be Wise'' (1946) *''The Reluctant Orphan'' (1947) a.k.a. ''Orphan Bride'' *''The English Tutor'' (1948) *''The Gentle Prisoner'' (1949) *''These Delights'' (1949) *''The Young Amanda'' (1950) *''Then She Fled Me'' (1950) *''The Dark Stranger'' (1951) *''Wintersbride'' (1951) *''The Lordly One'' (1952) *''The Forbidden Island'' (1953) *''Turn to the West'' (1953) *''The Truant Spirit'' (1954) *''Time of Grace'' (1955) *''Child Friday'' (1956) *''Sister to Cinderella'' (1956) *''I Know My Love'' (1957) *''Trevallion'' (1957) *''Lucy Lamb'' (1958) a.k.a. ''Lucy Lamb, Doctor's Wife'' *''Charity Child'' (1959) *''Dear Dragon'' (1959) *''Cloud Castle'' (1960) *''The Only Charity'' (1961) *''The Reluctant Landlord'' (1962) *''Valentine's Day'' (1962) *''By Candlelight'' (1963) *''The Youngest Bridesmaid'' (1963) *''The Third Uncle'' (1964) *''To Catch a Unicorn'' (1964) *''Green Girl'' (1965) *''The Truant Bride'' (1966) *''Penny Plain'' (1967) *''That Young Person'' (1969) *''Dear Professor'' (1970) *''Mr. Brown'' (1971) a.k.a. ''The Unknown Mr. Brown''

Author's omnibus collections

*Green Girl / Penny Plain / Queen Of Hearts (Harlequin Omnibus 9) (1975) *Young Amanda / Truant Bride / Beggars May Sing (1983)

Anthologies in collaboration

*Do Something Dangerous / Youngest Bridesmaid / Doctor David Advises (1964) (with

Elizabeth Hoy Alice Nina Hoysradt, née Conarain (2 February 1898 — 7 November 1982) was an Irish writer of over 70 romance novels as her maiden name Nina Conarain and under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Hoy from 1933 to 1980. Biography Alice Nina Conarain wa ...

and Hilary Wilde) *Surgeon's Marriage / The Only Charity / The Golden Peaks (1964) (with Kathryn Blair,

Eleanor Farnes Eleanor Farnes was the pen name of Grace Rutherford, a British writer of over 60 romance novels at Mills & Boon from 1935 to 1979. Career Eleanor Farnes lived in England, but her family had a home in Spain, where she also spend part of each y ...

) *Mountain Clinic / Forbidden Island / Dear Fugitive (1971) (with

Jean S. MacLeod Jean S. MacLeod (20 January 1908 – 11 April 2011) was a prolific British writer of over 130 romance novels from 1936 to 1996, she also used the pseudonym of Catherine Airlie. Biography Personal life Born Jane Sutherland MacLeod on 20 Jan ...

) *Orphan Bride / Full Tide / House in the Timberwoods (1971) (with Celine Conway,

Joyce Dingwell Joyce Dingwell, née ''Enid Joyce Owen Starr'' (1909 in City of Ryde, Sydney, Australia – 2 August 1997 in Kincumber, Sydney), an Australian writer of more than 80 romance novels at Mills & Boon from 1931 to 1986, who also wrote under the pseu ...

) *Then She Fled Me / Castle in Corsica / Scatterbrains-Student Nurse (1971) (with

Margaret Malcolm Margaret Lilian Malcolm ( Graham, 17 January 1900 – 11 December 1980) was a British writer of over 100 romance novels published by Mills & Boon from 1940 to 1981. Bibliography * ''Love Without Wings'' (1940) a.k.a. ''Surgeon's Wife'' * ''L ...

and

Anne Weale Jay Blakeney (20 June 1929 – 24 October 2007) was a British writer and newspaper reporter, well known as a romance novelist under the pen names Anne Weale and Andrea Blake. She wrote over 88 books for Mills & Boon from 1955 to 2002. She di ...

) *Wintersbride / Marriage Compromise / Tamarisk Bay (1972) (with Kathryn Blair,

) *Children's Nurse / Heart Specialist / Child Friday (1972) (

Susan Barrie Ida Julia Pollock ( Crowe; 12 April 1908 – 3 December 2013) was a British writer of several short-stories and over 125 romance novels that were published under her married name, Ida Pollock, and under a number of different pseudonyms: Joan M. ...

and Kathryn Blair) *Harlequin Golden Library Vol. XLI: Over The Blue Mountains, Summer Lightning, Lucy Lamb, Doctor's Wife (1973) (with

Mary Burchell Ida Cook (24 August 190422 December 1986) was a British campaigner for Jewish refugees and, as Mary Burchell, a romance novelist. Ida Cook and her sister Louise Cook (1901–1991) rescued Jews from the Nazis during the 1930s. The sisters he ...

and Jill Tahourdin) *Masquerade / Rata Flowers Are Red / Unknown Mr. Brown (1977) (with Anne Mather, Mary Moore) *Master of Comus / My Heart's Desire / Flight Into Yesterday (1983) (with

Charlotte Lamb Sheila Holland, née Sheila Ann Mary Coates ( in Dagenham, Essex, England in Isle of Man) was best known under the pseudonym Charlotte Lamb as a prolific romantic novelist. She signed her novels with her married or maiden names – Sheila Hollan ...

and

Margaret Way Margaret Way (07 August 1935 in Brisbane - 10 August 2022 in Cleveland, Queensland, Australia) was an Australian writer of romance novels and women's fiction. A prolific author, Way wrote more than 120 novels since 1970, many through Mills & Bo ...

)

References and sources

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