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Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877– 7 February 1950) was a British novelist and short-story writer, born in Garston, Liverpool on the Lancashire coast. Educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St. Hilda's College, Oxford (where she was one of the first students), she served as a Red Cross nurse during World War I with a voluntary Franco-American hospital.

Following the war she returned to Oxford where she worked as a secretary to the Regius Professor of history and senior civil servants. She produced her best-seller, The Flight of the Heron, in 1925, and followed it up with two successful sequels, The Gleam in the North and The Dark Mile. She wrote several other historical novels, successful and much reprinted in their day, although the Jacobite Trilogy, featuring the dashing hero Ewen Cameron, remain the best known.

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