D.K. Broster

• Oct-1975
• / General Fiction
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What would a young Highlander leave his home and his bride-to-be to follow? D.K. Broster's The Flight of the Heron, set during the 1745 Jacobite uprising under Bonnie Prince Charlie, is the first book in a trilogy and follows the intersecting f...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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In this collection of dark, supernatural tales the esteemed author D. K. Broster gave full reign to her vivid imagination. Sometimes -- as in “The Window” or “The Pestering,” or “All Soul’s Day” -- these are what we might call ‘explai...

• Jan-2011
• / General Fiction
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One of the first students at St. Hilda's College, Oxford, D.K. Broster (1877-1950) wrote popular historical novels after serving as a Red Cross nurse during World War I, including this tale of the adventures of royalist sympathizers after the French ...

• Oct-2011
• / General Fiction
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Dorothy Kathleen Broster was born on 2nd September 1877 at Devon Lodge in Grassendale Park, Garston, Liverpool.At 16, the family moved to Cheltenham, where she attended Cheltenham Ladies' College and then on to St Hilda’s College, Oxford to read hi...

• Jan-2015
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• Oct-2015
• / Literary
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• Jul-2019
• / Historical Romance
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The Yellow Poppy (1920), is a novel by D.K. Broster that details the adventures of an aristocratic couple during the French Revolution and was later adapted by Broster and W. Edward Stirling for the London stage in 1922.

• Nov-2021
• / Historical Romance
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Set during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, this is the third and final instalment of D. K. Broster’s trilogy. The Dark Mile is the sequel to The Flight of the Heron and The Gleam in the North, completing the trilogy.  The Dark Mile ...

• Nov-2021
• / Historical Romance
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D. K. Broster’s The Gleam of the North is the second of the Jacobite Trilogy. It follows on from the first instalment, in which the intersecting fortunes of two men, who at first glance seem almost complete opposites, are at the centre of the story...

• Jul-2022
• / Horror
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D K Broster’s Weird fiction has long been forgotten, but she wrote some of the most impressive British supernatural short stories published between the wars. Melissa Edmundson, editor of Women’s Weird, Women’s Weird 2, and Helen Sim...

• Apr-2023
• / Historical
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It was a large room, a room in a palace grown to be a prison in all but name. A bright fire crackled on the hearth at one end, the firelight danced on the walls, the dusk drew on, and a girl looked out of the window at the whirling snowflakes.She sto...

• / Historical
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A few reviews...Historical novel in which friendship plays the part usually assigned to romantic love. The love interest is there to be sure, but the real theme of the story is the devotion and loyalty of a young Anglo-French woman to a royalist offi...