D. K. Broster

Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) was a British novelist, author of the Jacobite Trilogy featuring, as its hero, the dashing Ewan Cameron. Educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College[?] and St. Hilda's College, Oxford (where she was one of the first students), she worked as a secretary to senior civil servants and served as a Red Cross nurse during World War I. She produced her best-seller, The Flight of the Heron[?], in 1925, and followed it up with two successful sequels.