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Hebe Elsna
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Dorothy Phoebe Ansle was bron 27 July 1890 in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England, UK, daugther of the second marriage formed by Mary Phillipps (née Embling), who ran a boardinghouse, and Frederick Philip Ansle (1897-1938), who had various profesions, like butcher and wine merchant. She was the younger child in common. She was a pupil at Royal Masonic School for Girls, and went on to some further education at Caversham. She married Irish Francis Ignatius Keogh, and they lived in Dublin before they instaled in London on 1927.
On 1928, she published her first novel, under the penname of Hebe Elsna, she also wrote under the pennames Vicky Lancaster, Lyndon Snow, and Laura Conway. She published more than 200 novels, mainly romance and dramatic novels or novelized historical biographies, under diferent pseudonyms and titles. She later lived in Surrey and then Hove. Her husband died in 1965. She continued to live in the Hove area till her own death on 7 January 1983.
Full Series List in Order
Gunning
1 - The Brimming Cup (Jan-1965)2 - The Pursuit of Pleasure (Jan-1969)
Lord Melbourne
1 - The Love Match (Jan-1956)2 - Mrs. Melbourne (Jan-1958)
Pleasance
1 - A House Called Pleasance (Jan-1963)2 - Too Well Beloved (Jan-1964)
3 - The Undying Past (Jan-1964)
Book List in Order: 97 titles
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You Never Knew
- Jan-1933
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Romance novel of a young woman paralyzed on her honeymoon, who is sheltered thereon from any of "life's rough edges by an adoring husband, friends, and relatives". When she recovers "after years of having been 'an effigy on a diva...
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The Love Match
- Jan-1956
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A vivid picture of life in Georgian days. When future prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, married Lady Caroline Ponsonby in 1805, it was a true love-match. But William's jealous mother Lady Elizabeth hated her daughter-in-law and...
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Mrs. Melbourne
- Jan-1958
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A vivid picture of life in Georgian days. The widower Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, helps to mould the character of the Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent. Debonair, urbane, witty and charming, Lord Melbourne wins young Queen Vict...
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Vicky // The Eldest Daughter
- Jan-1961
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The story of Vicky the British Princess Royal covering the years 1855-62 is based on fact. A story of love, drama and intrigue people by the members of the British and German royal families....
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The Little Goddess
- 1961
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Catherine Walters, also known as "Skittles" was a fashion trendsetter and one of the last of the great courtesans of Victorian London. Walters' benefactors are rumoured to have included intellectuals, leaders of political parties, aristoc...
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A House Called Pleasance
- Jan-1963
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Pleasance, built in the reign of Edward IV, descends to one generation after another of the Grenton family. But in this family it is daughters, not sons, who come into possession of the lovely country estate....
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Too Well Beloved
- Jan-1964
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This, though a story in its own right, continues the history of the old country house featured in the author’s previous novel A House Called Pleasance. But now the house had fallen into the possession of a distant, half-French member of the Grenton...
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The Undying Past
- Jan-1964
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Pleasance, built in the reign of Edward IV, desends to the women in the Grenton family. The Undying Past, the third and last volume of a trilogy, chronicles the residence there of Ives, an immensely rich gentleman from Virginia, who comes to live at ...
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The Brimming Cup
- Jan-1965
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The Irish sister Elizabeth and Maria Gunning were poor - but outstandingly beautiful. When they were invited to the Lord Lieutenant's ball their glittering gowns were borrowed from the Dublin Theatre wardrobe. But their entry into society was assured...
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The Wise Virgin
- Jan-1967
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Jocelyn, the heroine of this tale of Tudor times, attracts the attention of Henry VIII. Her predicament is understandable -- to marry the bluebeard King is to risk death by the hangman's axe, but to reject a king is to court the same fate. It...
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Gallant Lady
- Jan-1968
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The coach lurched to such an extent that Kit was thrown forward, bumping his head. Simultaneously, a shot rang out, and the frightened horses plunged. "It's a hold-up!" screamed Mrs. Hood at the top of her voice. "Oh heaven have mercy, what's to ...
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The Heir of Garlands
- Jan-1968
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A Face From The Past Garlands is the beloved home of Ormonde Garland and her family, her father having inherited it on the death of his brother and his brother's son, Lance. But eight years after Lance was thought to have perished at sea, he ret...
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The Pursuit of Pleasure
- Jan-1969
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The beautiful Elizabeth Gunning, is now happily married to her second husband the Duke of Argyll. But the children of the first and second marriages are headstrong and wayward, in particular the eldest daughter, Lady Betty Hamilton, whom both Sir Jos...
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Take Heed of Loving Me
- Mar-1970
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THAT HEED OF LOVING ME is the strange and engrossing tale of a love affair that would not be bound by the worldly confines of time. ...
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