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Sara Seale
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Sara Seale was the pseudonym used by Mary Jane MacPherson (d. 11 March 1974) and/or A.D.L. MacPherson (d. 30 October 1978), a British writing team who published over 45 romance novels from 1932 to 1971. Seale was one of the first Mills & Boon's authors published in Germany and the Netherlands, and reached the pinnacle of her career in the 1940s and 1950s, when they earning over £3,000/year. Many of Seale's novels revisited a theme of an orphaned heroine who finds happiness, and also employed blind or disfigured (but still handsome) heroes as standard characters.
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 Crufts.
Full Series List in Order
Truant
1 - The Truant Spirit (Jan-1954)2 - The Truant Bride (Jan-1966)
Book List in Order: 47 titles
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Beggars May Sing
- Jan-1932
- / Contemporary Romance
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Gina and her brother Sebastian weren't literally beggars - but they were financially dependent on Mark Proctor though he was no relation to them, merely their stepmother's brother. Sebastian, at 18 well on his way to becoming a charming waste...
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Spread Your Wings // My Heart's Desire
- Jan-1939
- / Contemporary Romance
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Original title: Spread Your Wings. Richard Saracen felt that he owed young Gael Cassella something; after all, he had persuaded her to sell him the horse on which he had set his heart. So when she confided that what she longed for most of all was ...
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Stormy Petrel
- Jan-1941
- / Romance
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The endearing story of a waif who found shelter from life’s buffeting. It meant a startling change in young Toni Kinsell's life when Doctor Lister Shaw suddenly whisked her from the down-to-earth neighbourhood of Bethanl Green to his elegant...
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Barn Dance // Queen of Hearts
- Jan-1941
- / Contemporary Romance
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Life in an orphanage doesn't seem the best possible preparation for a job as receptionist in an exclusive country hotel, particularly if you are nineteen and look about four years younger. But Selina Task simply treated the wealthy guests as she ...
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The Silver Sty
- Jan-1942
- / Contemporary Romance
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Sarah had all kinds of names for the guardian she hadn't seen for years--the G.I. (Guardian of Innocence), The Myth, Poor Fish -- just as she had all kinds of ingenious plans to get rid of him when he came. She wanted no interference in her young...
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House of Glass // Maggy
- Jan-1942
- / Contemporary Romance
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Original title: House of Glass. Maggy was young, alone in the world after her father's death, untrained and too inexperienced to make much of a way in life; although she had a job of sorts, as companion/dogsbody to a tyrannical old lady, life ...
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Folly to Be Wise
- Jan-1946
- / Contemporary Romance
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Tessa was happy and content with her carefree life on the farm and the companionship of her childhood friend, Dick. So, to ward off the unwelcome attentions of a man she heartily disliked she told him she was secretly engaged to Max Soames, a wealthy...
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The Reluctant Orphan // Orphan Bride
- Jan-1947
- / Contemporary Romance
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Original title: The Reluctant Orphan. When Julian Dane's fiancee broke off their engagement because a severe injury had lessened his attractions for her, he said “I don't intend to remain in single blessedness... but this time I'll p...
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The English Tutor
- Jan-1948
- / Contemporary Romance
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For most of her seventeen years Clancy O'Shane had led a wild, undisciplined life in her remote Irish home. So when her father decided that she should have a tutor--an Englishman, and one, moreover, who bore the hated name of Cromwell!--Clancy vo...
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The Gentle Prisoner
- Jan-1949
- / Contemporary Romance
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Here is the tender story of Nicholas Penryn, who lived as an embittered recluse in a remote part of Cornwall. Badly scarred, he could not believe that any woman could be other than repulsed by him - until his strange marriage to a young girl whose ge...
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These Delights
- Jan-1949
- / Contemporary Romance
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Luke Merit's engagement to Diana was presenting him with some problems, not the least of them being how to retain his independence in the face of his wealthy fiancee's well-meant but unthinking interference. And when three young cousins -...
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Then She Fled Me
- Jan-1950
- / Contemporary Romance
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Sarah Riordan had one passionate aim in life: to keep the house and lands of Dun Rury in the family - no easy task for a young and inexperienced girl, but one she was determined to carry through. Adrian Flint, who came to Dun Rury as a paying guest, ...
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The Young Amanda
- Jan-1950
- / Contemporary Romance
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What would be the emotions of a young girl reared in an orphanage who suddenly inherits a fortune? Amanda, for seventeen years the inmate of an institution, finds herself an heiress with cousins whose existence she never suspected. This is the story ...
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The Wintersbride
- Jan-1951
- / Contemporary Romance
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Adam Chantry no longer particularly desired a wife, but he needed a mistress for his home and a companion for his child. Miranda was young and alone in the world, and she wanted a home and protection, so she naively agreed to his proposal of marriage...
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The Dark Stranger
- Jan-1951
- / Contemporary Romance
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"I see a dark stranger entering your life violently," the gipsy fortune-teller had told Tina -- but it seemed unlikely that her words would ever come true, for Tina was kept decidedly in the background by her stepmother, Belle, to whom the ...
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The Lordly One
- Jan-1952
- / Contemporary Romance
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Carey Lord at the age of thirty-six suddenly found himself guardian to two orphaned girls. Dee, an uncomplicated schoolgirl, was easy enough to manage, but eighteen-year-old Morgan, unpredictable as the sorceress after whom she was named, untamed and...
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The Truant Spirit
- Jan-1954
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Sabina was running away. Not very far, and not for very long: but even that mild bid for freedom landed her (for she was not the efficient type) in the wilds of Cornwall on a rainy February night, with no money, no belongings and no prospect of shelt...
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Time of Grace
- Jan-1955
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Stella Quest was helping Gavin Mackinnon to get ready to receive his unknown Irish ward she thoughtfully provided all the books and toys a little girl could want. But Tansy proved to be an eighteen year-old with a strange, elusive charm that all...
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Child Friday
- Jan-1956
- / Contemporary Romance
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"Friday's child is loving and giving . . .". Emily Moon was like that, and she accepted sadly that she had not got the extra qualities of beauty or a high-powered brain. Was she, she wondered, the sort of person who could be a help to ...
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Trevallion
- Jan-1957
- / Contemporary Romance
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Anna and Rick had become engaged for "mutual protection", not intending to marry. Then, in his beautiful Cornish home, she learned to love him ... but would he ever be free of Alix, his cousin and first love, who, with his family's approval, had eve...
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I Know My Love
- Jan-1957
- / Contemporary Romance
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"No one will ever marry me," twelve-year old Jo had wept, "because my hair doesn't curl!" I'll marry you, Jo," the young man Gervase had comforted her. Just a joke, of course, but she had remembered it. She hadn't realized how much the idea had me...
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Lucy Lamb // Lucy Lamb, Doctor's Wife
- Jan-1958
- / Contemporary Romance
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It was a tremendous step for Lucy Lamb to leave her work in the children's wards of St. Minver's Hospital and marry the famous surgeon, Bartlemy Travers. Many a woman envied Lucy her marriage to this attractive doctor, who had a romantic hint...
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Dear Dragon
- Jan-1959
- / Contemporary Romance
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He was a feudal lord, both loved and feared. Stranded in a remote part of Cornwall with no money and no job, Alice Brown reluctantly took a post as governess in the Pendragon household. She found them a wild and quarrelsome family, with Keir ...
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Charity Child
- Jan-1959
- / Contemporary Romance
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Charity thought herself fortunate when she was whisked away from a dreary job to be companion to "Astrea", who had once been a famous singer and who now lived in a dream-world of highly coloured memories and astrological forecasts, guiding he...
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Cloud Castle
- Jan-1960
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Judy Ware was angry. Hired by correspondence, she had traveled to Ireland to be the secretary at Slyne Castle guest house, only to have its owner, the aloof Michael O'Rafferty, refuse to let her start. And for the ridiculous reason that Judy'...
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The Only Charity
- Jan-1961
- / Contemporary Romance
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The great love of Christy Tavener's life was Fairmile the gracious country house which was her family home. But would her crotchety but loveable grandfather, last of the Taveners, leave it to her in his will? Or did he disapprove too strongly of ...
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This Merry Bond
- 1961
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Nicky Bredon had been quite content to live a rather raffish, Bohemian, roving life with her gay and attractive father; but whether she knew it or not, she needed some form of security and stability, and she had always found it in the old country hou...
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The Reluctant Landlord
- Jan-1962
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Stephen Spencer wasn't at all keen on having to sublet part of his picturesque country cottage, but for financial reasons it had to be done and when he met his new tenant, Amanda Page, with red hair and a temper to match it, he knew he had been r...
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Doctor's Ward
- 1962
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There was a startling change in the life of Toni Kinsell when, because of a chance encounter with Doctor Lister Shayle, she found herself suddenly transplanted from a tenement district to a doctor's house in fashionable South Kensington. Hero:...
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By Candlelight
- Jan-1963
- / Contemporary Romance
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Ever since they were children together in Ireland, Giles had been Marny's dear friend. Now, at seventeen, she loved him with a woman's love, and he-a brilliant young artist with worlds at his feet to conquer-knew that without her he was only half ali...
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Youngest Bridesmaid
- Jan-1963
- / Contemporary Romance
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Louise was the relation as far as her cousins, the Chaileys, were concerned, and when her glamorous cousin Melissa was planning her wedding to wealthy playboy Piers Merrick, Louise was given the comparatively humble part of the youngest (and least im...
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Forbidden Island
- 1963
- / Contemporary Romance
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Lisa was an heiress. But to Charles, was she just spoilt child? Holidaying in Scotland with David McCulloch- the man she had always hero-worshipped, her cousin, guardian and now the man she was going to marry - Lisa could hardly believe it when sh...
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To Catch a Unicorn
- Jan-1964
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When twenty-year-old Laura, after a careful, sheltered upbringing, was suddenly thrust into the turbulent household of the 'dark Trevaynes' she felt young and defenseless, and always overshadowed by her glamorous cousin Cleo. There had bee...
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The Third Uncle
- Jan-1964
- / Contemporary Romance
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He treats me like a child--I'll show him! Nineteen-year-old Gilly was insulted as only a young woman can be. She had come to Marley College to meet her guardian, Oliver Blunt. But he proved to be a domineering man who refused to believe she was a...
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Green Girl
- Jan-1965
- / Contemporary Romance
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Harriet Jones, an 18 year old orphan, thought she had met her Prince Charming when Rory Lonnegan asked her to come to Ireland to marry him. But a disappointment was in store for Harriet when she arrived at Castle Clooney. Hero: Rory Lonnegan Hero...
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The Truant Bride
- Jan-1966
- / Contemporary Romance
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Truant - 2
Harlequin Romance - 1144
Mills & Boon Best Seller (reissues) - 138
Mills & Boon Romance - 318
Matilda was very young and defiant, and more than a little mixed-up emotionally. But she was not entirely devoid of sense - and when she got herself engaged to Justin Justice, whom she did not love and who she had no reason to suppose cared about her...
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Penny Plain
- Jan-1967
- / Contemporary Romance
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Emma Penelope Clay was only twenty, and inexperienced in most things except the care of the pedigree Alsatians in whose world she had been brought up - and it might have seemed like leading a lamb to the slaughter when she went to work at the Kennels...
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That Young Person
- Jun-1969
- / Contemporary Romance
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Simon Spender was finding it a difficult and thankless job being trustee for his wild young step-brother Kit. Even so, when kit air, announced that he was sending his new fiancee over from Ireland -- a girl who could only be a gold-digger--Simon was ...
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Dear Professor
- Jun-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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For a year the glamorous Sylvie had been corresponding with Adam Soames, and the personality revealed in the letters had so intrigued him that now he was coming home to visit her. But the letters had actually been written by Sylvie's younger, ...
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Mr. Brown // The Unknown Mr. Brown
- Nov-1971
- / Contemporary Romance
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Original title: Mr. Brown. From the age of fourteen, orphaned Victoria was cared for by a benefactor whom she was never able to meet, the unknown "Mr. Brown". As she grew older she found herself weaving romantic fantasies around him - but ...