Elizabeth Gilzean

Elizabeth Houghton Blanchet was born on 1 March 1913 in Lachine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was one of the five chindren of Muriel Wylie Liffiton, also a writer, and Geoffrey Orme Banchet, a banker. She studied nursing, and she met J. Gilzean in Bermuda, where he was stationed, and they married. In 1946, the family moved to England. The marriage ended in divorce, and later she remarried with J. Parry. She worked as nurse and freelance journalist, before worked as novelist.

Elizabeth wrote under three penames: Elizabeth Gilzean, Elizabeth Houghton and Mary Hunton. Houghton was her middle name and Hunton, was their paternal grandmother's maiden name.

Elizabeth passed away on 12 October 1995 in England.