Dorothy MacLeish, née Black (b. 1890 in Bradford

Bradford

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, Yorkshire

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, England

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, UK

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 - d. 1977 in Scotland

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, UK

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) was a British

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 writer of over 100 romance novel

Romance novel

The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late...

s and several short stories from 1916 to 1974 under her maiden name Dorothy Black and as Peter Delius. In 1934 published anonymously Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman

Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman

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, later reedited under her name. The summer of 1949, she assisted Marion Crawford

Marion Crawford

Marion Crawford, CVO was a Scottish nanny. She was an employee of the British Royal Family, the nanny of the children of King George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret who gave her the nickname "Crawfie"...

 to writing a series of features on life with Princess Margaret. She wrote her auto-biography "The foot of the rainbow" in 1960.

Dorothy Black was vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association

Romantic Novelists' Association

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In 1916, she was married with Hugh MacLeish.

Single novels

• Her Lonely Soldier (1916)
• The Man with a Square Face (1916)
• Romance - The Loveliest Thing (1925)
• Idle Women (1928)
• Women Men Forget (1931)
• Amri Clare (1932)
• The Loving Adventure (1934)
• The Broken Lute (1935)
• Love Came Late (1935)
• The Pineapple Garden (1935)
• The Spring Returns (1935)
• What No Man Knows (1935)
• Love in Exile (1936)
• All Love Excelling (1937)
• Corner House (1937)
• If I Should Lose You (1937)
• Summer's End (1937)
• If Sorrow Follows After (1938)
• Odd Job Man (1938)
• White Woman (1938)
• Lovers (1939)
• Dance, Little Lady (1940)
• First Love (1940)
• Never Leave Me (1941)
• Sailor, Sailor! (1941)
• My Love Belongs to Me (1942)
• Two for Mirth (1942)
• Burmese Picnic (1943)
• The Sun is Near (1943)
• Alone Am I (1944)
• Fantastic Journey (1944)
• The Gay Adventure (1945)
• Last Love (1946)
• The Hidden Heart (1947)
• Song before Dawn (1948)
• The Broken Moon (1949)
• The One I Love (1950)
• The Stag at Bay (1950)
• To Meet My Love (1950)
• We'll Meet Again (1951)
• Peacock Pie (1952)
• Well Done, Belinda! (1952)
• My Love for You (1953)
• The Blackthorn Winter (1953)
• Candles in the Dark (1954)
• Follow Your Heart (1954)
• Three Lame Men (1954)
• The Blue Orchid (1955)
• Her Heart was in the Highlands (1955) aka The Heart is Highland
• The House Without Doors (1955)
• The Trees Were Green (1955)
• Gentle Stranger (1956)
• Forsaking All Others (1956)
• The Uphill Road (1957)
• Afraid to Love (1958)
• Love Locked Out (1958)
• The Loveless Marriage (1958)
• The Long Day Done (1959)
• Where No Love Is (1959)
• Life with Money (1960)
• The Orange Robe (1960)
• The Unforgettable Miss Jones (1960)
• Hold in Your Keeping (1961)
• The Imprudent Princess (1961)
• The Quiet Waters (1961)
• Young Doctor Shannon (1961)
• In a Little Spanish Town (1962)
• A Sprig of Heather (1962)
• The Captain's Wife (1963)
• Paradise for Two (1963)
• When Love is True (1963)
• And Love Forever New (1964)
• As Long as You Need Me (1964)
• Return to Glenfern (1965)
• A Letter to My Love (1966)
• Sisters Three (1966)
• As Only Love Can Do (1967)
• Luxury Cruise (1967)
• O Come, My Love (1967)
• Wild Gold Rose (1967)
• The Winter Wind (1967)
• Love Endureth (1968)
• Mistress of Skula (1968)
• There is a Love for Everyone (1968)
• Make This My Home (1969)
• Midsummer Magic (1969)
• Love Must be Wise (1969)
• One Day in Spring (1969)
• I Will Remember (1970)
• Romantic Stranger (1970)
• Heritage of Love (1971)
• Love Belongs to Everyone (1972)
• Flower of the Snow (1973)
• Where Love is (1974)
• From Faraway (1974)
• It Had to be You (1974)

Omnibus

• Merry Times With Louis Wain (1916)
• Adventures in Magic Land and Other Tales (1917)

Short stories

• What All the World Is Seeking (1925)
• It's Difficult for Girls! (1926)
• The Girl with Painted Lips (1927)
• The Captains and the Kings Depart (1927)
• Passing the Love of Women (1927)
• East Is East (1928)
• The Desert's Dusty Face (1928)
• Jacobs Ladder (1928)
• In the House of Wa Lee (1928)
• His Wonders to Perform (1929)
• The Gift (1929)
• I Kiss Your Hand, Madam (1929)
• Prisoners of Love (1930)
• Unborn To-Morrow (1930)
• Sedition (1931)
• Besieged at Christmas (1932)
• A Knight Came Riding By (1933)
• This for Remembrance (1933)
• Where We Are All Spoiled Darlings (1934)
• Where There's a Will (1934)
• Goodbye, Summer (1934)
• Such Folk are Dangerous (1934)
• Daphne Demurs (1935)
• The Hungry Man (1935)
• Babes in the Wood (1935)
• Love and Guile (1935)
• Queer Bedfellows (1935)
• Mr. Charrabandi's Assistant (1936)
• Something in the Wind (1937)
• Little Singing Bird (1940)
• Love Your Neighbor (1940)
• The Fantastic Armada (1940)
• Love a la Mode (1941)
• The Sowers Went Forth (1943)
• Another Woman (1943)
• The Hidden Heart (1946)
• My Heart Flies Homing (1946)
• Solo for Flute (1949)
• Home is the Sailor (1949)
• Men Are Naturally Dangerous (1952)
• The Goose and the Gendarme (1954)
• House Without Doors (1954)
• Gentle Stranger (1955)
• The Loveless Marriage (1956)
• Love's Old Sweet Song (1957)
• Life with Money (1958)
• Luck of the Draw (1960)
• The Old Dog (1962)

Single novels

• Women in white (1934) aka Nursing Home
• Boarding House (1935)
• Love of Women (1940)
• The last affair (1964)