Pamela Wynne

Winifred Mary Watson was born on 1879 in London, England, UK, the fourth child of Lily and Samuel Watson, a solicitor in the City of London, two more children were to follow. The family were affluent enough to have Winifred educated privately in Lausanne, Switzerland and it was during her education that she found her love of writing.
On 14 November 1905, she married William Herbert Schroder Scott in Bombay, India. They jad three children, William Patrick Temple Scott (1908), Herbert Wyndham Fitzgerald Scott (1910), Sholto Haig Scott-Watson (1917). The marriage divorced in 1932.

Published since 1923 as Pamela Wynne wrote more than 60 romantic novels during her lifetime, many of which inspired on her own experiences of living in India. Two of her books were turned into major motion pictures, Dangerous Innocence (1925) with Laura La Plante and Eugene O'Brien and Devotion (1931) with Ann Harding and Leslie Howard. She died on 29 January 1959 in Sissinghurst, Kent.