Leila Mackinlay

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1910 – 1996

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Who was Leila Mackinlay?

Leila Antionette Sterling Mackinlay was a British writer of romance novels from 1930 to 1979 as Leila S. Mackinlay or Leila Mackinlay and also under the pseudonym Brenda Grey. Some of her novels are based on real people like Madame Vestris, Lola Montez or Jane Elizabeth Digby; she also wrote Musical Productions, a musical book. She was the daughter of the musician and writer Malcolm Sterling Mackinlay and granddaughter of the vocalist Antoinette Sterling.

She was the seventh elected Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association.

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Born
Sep 5, 1910
London
Also known as
  • Brenda Grey
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Died
Apr 13, 1996
Camden Town

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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