Sara Seale Explained

Mary Jane MacPherson and/or A.D.L. MacPherson
Pseudonym:	Sara Seale
Occupation:	Novelist
Nationality:	British
Period:	1932-1971
Genre:	romance
Spouse:	yes

Sara Seale, was the pseudonym by Mary Jane MacPherson (d.) and/or A.D.L. MacPherson (d.), a British writing team of over 45 romance novels as from 1932 to 1971. Seale was one of the first Mills & Boon's authors published in Germany and the Netherlands. By the 1950s Seale was earning over £3,000/year.^[1]

Biography

Mary Jane MacPherson began writing at an early age while still in her convent school. Besides being a writer, MacPherson was also a leading authority on Alsatian dogs, and was a judge at Crufts.^[2]

Bibliography

Single novels

• Beggars May Sing (1932)
• Grace Before Meat (1932)
• Chase the Moon (1933)
• Summer Spell (1937)
• This Merry Bond (1938)
• Spread Your Wings (1939) My Heart's Desire
• Green Grass Growing (1940)
• Barn Dance (1941) a.k.a. Queen of Hearts
• Stormy Petrel (1941)
• The Silver Sty (1942)
• House of Glass (1944) a.k.a. Maggy
• Folly to Be Wise (1946)
• The Reluctant Orphan (1947) a.k.a. Orphan Bride
• The English Tutor (1948)
• The Gentle Prisoner (1949)
• These Delights (1949)
• The Young Amanda (1950)
• Then She Fled Me (1950)
• The Dark Stranger (1951)
• Wintersbride (1951)
• The Lordly One (1952)
• The Forbidden Island (1953)
• Turn to the West (1953)
• The Truant Spirit (1954)
• Time of Grace (1955)
• Child Friday (1956)
• Sister to Cinderella (1956)
• I Know My Love (1957)
• Trevallion (1957)
• Lucy Lamb (1958) a.k.a. Lucy Lamb, Doctor's Wife
• Charity Child (1959)
• Dear Dragon (1959)
• Cloud Castle (1960)
• The Only Charity (1961)
• The Reluctant Landlord (1962)
• Valentine's Day (1962)
• By Candlelight (1963)
• The Youngest Bridesmaid (1963)
• The Third Uncle (1964)
• To Catch a Unicorn (1964)
• Green Girl (1965)
• The Truant Bride (1966)
• Penny Plain (1967)
• That Young Person (1969)
• Dear Professor (1970)
• Mr. Brown (1971) a.k.a. The Unknown Mr. Brown

Author's omnibus collections

• Green Girl / Penny Plain / Queen Of Hearts (Harlequin Omnibus 9) (1975)
• Young Amanda / Truant Bride / Beggars May Sing (1983)

Anthologies in collaboration

• Do Something Dangerous / Youngest Bridesmaid / Doctor David Advises (1964) (with Elizabeth Hoy and Hilary Wilde)
• Surgeon's Marriage / The Only Charity / The Golden Peaks (1964) (with Kathryn Blair, Eleanor Farnes)
• Mountain Clinic / Forbidden Island / Dear Fugitive (1971) (with Elizabeth Hoy, Jean S. MacLeod)
• Orphan Bride / Full Tide / House in the Timberwoods (1971) (with Celine Conway, Joyce Dingwell)
• Then She Fled Me / Castle in Corsica / Scatterbrains-Student Nurse (1971) (with Margaret Malcolm and Anne Weale)
• Wintersbride / Marriage Compromise / Tamarisk Bay (1972) (with Kathryn Blair, Margaret Malcolm)
• Children's Nurse / Heart Specialist / Child Friday (1972) (Susan Barrie and Kathryn Blair)
• Harlequin Golden Library Vol. XLI: Over The Blue Mountains, Summer Lightning, Lucy Lamb, Doctor's Wife (1973) (with Mary Burchell and Jill Tahourdin)
• Masquerade / Rata Flowers Are Red / Unknown Mr. Brown (1977) (with Anne Mather, Mary Moore)
• Master of Comus / My Heart's Desire / Flight Into Yesterday (1983) (with Charlotte Lamb and Margaret Way)

Notes and References

1. Bernard W. E. Alford. “Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies.” Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, 2001, pp. 354–355. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4053426.
2. Turn to the West 1985 edition, back cover text