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Leila MacKinlay
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Leila Antionette Sterling Mackinlay was born on 5 September 1910 in London, England, UK. She was the daugther of the musician and writer Malcolm Sterling Mackinlay and granddaugther of the popular vocalist Antoinette Sterling. She attended Camden School before obtained a diploma in English Literature at London University in 1950. She also was trained as a singer and actress. She worked as teacher of Ordinary Level English Literature.
As Leila S. Mackinlay and later Leila Mackinlay, she wrote romance novels from 1930 to 1979, she also used the pseudonym of Brenda Grey. Some of her novels are based in real people like, Madame Vestris, Lola Montez or Jane Elizabeth Digby, she also wrote Musical Productions, a musical book. Elected the seventh Chairman (1973-1975) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, she passed away in 1996.
Book List in Order: 73 titles
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Apron-Strings
- 1937
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Story of a sons search for freedom and happiness away from his mother....
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Blue Shutters
- 1947
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A ruthless financier is the victim of a Stock Exchange crash. Rather thanface his numerous creditors, he commits suicide. This sets the ball rolling.His family find themselves with no assets, other than the house BLUESHUTTERS....
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Pilot's Point
- Jan-1949
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This tale centres round the development of Pilot's Point, a small fishing village, rather behind the times. We follow closely the struggles, joys, sorrows and loves of the local community through the momentous days from the beginning of the twentieth...
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Six Wax Candles
- 1950
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Novel which "centres round the career of the almost forgotten Madame Vestris (1797-1856), two-candle singer, creator of 'Cherry Ripe', and first actor-manageress of the stage."...
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Spider Dance
- 1950
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A novel based upon incidents in the life of Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countessof Landsfeld (1821-1861) well-know as Lola Montez....
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Unwise Wanderer
- Jan-1951
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The story about the life of Jane Elizabeth Digby (1807-1881), later Lady Ellenborough, a London society beauty, who gives up the life to become a bedouin....
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She Moved to Music
- Jan-1956
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Monique sets out to write the biography of her mother, a famous concert pianist, only to discover a dark secret, and struggles to decided whether to reveal this in the book....
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Spring Rainbow
- Jan-1961
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A kindly English family decides to do something towards World Refugee Year by inviting to stay with them a victim of the Agadir disaster....
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Broken Armour
- Jan-1963
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As a daughter, Ellina was definitely an embarrassment. A fervent follower of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, she was out of sympathy with her parents, both of whom had war records in the Services. Thus Ellina was relieved when it was her grandm...
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An Outside Chance
- Jan-1966
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Tessa would not believe her brother Martin was dead. As a Merchant Seaman, he turned up from time to time -- and then disappeared. Love had come to her. But how could she grasp her own happiness when Martin might be alive and needing her?...
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Farewell to Sadness
- Jan-1970
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When her fiance is killed in a car accident, the last thing Joanna wants to do is meet the driver. When Reuben Weiss' son, Mark, begs her to visit the old man she agrees to go - and to his trial at the Old Bailey. She finds it impossible to hate Weis...
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Strange Involvement
- Jun-1972
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This is the story of a Pop Festival - not a sordid picture of what is said to take place, but how the village and its inhabitants became involved. When a tempting offer to let the grounds of a large estate is accepted, the owner expected no repercuss...
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