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D K Broster
Dorothy Kathleen Broster was born in 1877 near Liverpool. She attended St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and earned an Honours degree in Modern History in 1898, but the degree was not officially awarded ...view moreDorothy Kathleen Broster was born in 1877 near Liverpool. She attended St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and earned an Honours degree in Modern History in 1898, but the degree was not officially awarded until 1920, when the university finally allowed a generation of women scholars to receive their degrees.
During the First World War, Broster volunteered as a nurse, and in 1915 she went to France with the British Red Cross. In peacetime she worked as the secretary for the Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, and during this time she began writing historical fiction. Her name was made by her bestselling Jacobite trilogy, The Flight of the Heron (1925), The Gleam in the North (1927), and The Dark Mile (1929). Most of her supernatural fiction appears in two collections: A Fire of Driftwood (1932) and Couching at the Door (1942). Broster never married but had a close friendship with Gertrude Schlich which lasted from the time of the First World War to Broster’s death in 1950.view less
Books by D K Broster
From the Abyss: Weird Fiction, 1907-1940 The Flight of the Heron Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gleam in the North Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Couching at the Door Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Mile Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mr. Rowl (Historical Novel) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings"Mr. Rowl" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Flight of the Heron: Historical Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Fire of Driftwood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Audiobooks by D K Broster
The Top 10 Short Stories - Oxford Graduates: The top ten short stories of all time written by authors that went to Oxford Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Flight of the Heron Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stories of Dark Magic: Classic stories, think Voldemort more than Harry Potter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Gleam in the North: The sequel to the Flight of the Heron Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dark Mile: The final book in the Flight of the Heron Trilogy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Pavement: A womans prized mosaic is seized, how will she react Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCouching at the Door Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Window: An Englishman falls for a woman in France on the eve of the great war Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWriters As The Protagonists – Short Stories: Wide spanning anthology with similar main characters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMr Rowl Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Foundations of Fiction - The Murder Mystery: The stories that created one of the most popular genres in fiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings