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Sara Seale


Born
The United Kingdom
Genre
Romance, Contemporary, Fiction


Sara Seale was the pseudonym used by Mary Jane MacPherson (d. 11 March 1974) and/or A.D.L. MacPherson (d. 30 October 1978), a British writing team who published over 45 romance novels from 1932 to 1971. Seale was one of the first Mills & Boon's authors published in Germany and the Netherlands, and reached the pinnacle of her career in the 1940s and 1950s, when they earning over £3,000/year. Many of Seale's novels revisited a theme of an orphaned heroine who finds happiness, and also employed blind or disfigured (but still handsome) heroes as standard characters.

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 judg ...more

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Average rating: 3.21 · 1,233 ratings · 315 reviews · 71 distinct works • Similar authors
To Catch a Unicorn
3.14 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1964 — 12 editions
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House of Glass
3.49 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1944 — 13 editions
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The Gentle Prisoner
3.14 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1949 — 9 editions
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Folly to Be Wise
3.38 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1946 — 13 editions
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Dear Professor
3.23 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1970 — 6 editions
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Dear Dragon
3.48 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1959 — 7 editions
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Charity Child
3.57 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1959 — 10 editions
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The Youngest Bridesmaid
3.02 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1964 — 6 editions
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The Reluctant Orphan
2.94 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1947 — 8 editions
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The English Tutor
3.68 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1948 — 6 editions
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“So she becomes, like all females deprived of a mate, predatory and exacting.”
― Sara Seale, The Reluctant Landlord
tags: female, females, mate, mates, women
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