Dorothy Black

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Dorothy Delius Allan Black was born on 1890 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK, the daughter of Clare (Edith) Delius (1866-1954), and her husband J. W. A. Black, her parents married in 1889. She was niece of the famous composer, Frederick Delius (1862–1934). Her mother wrote her brother's biography: Frederick Delius: Memories of my Brother. She started to write very young, and worked as journalist. In 1916, she married with Hugh MacLeish. Because of her husband's job, they moved to Rangoon, Burma (now known as Myanmar), where she started to published fiction. She raised her children in Burma. On 7 January 1921, she described Burma as "A Paradise for Women" in a article at the London Daily Mail. She used her maiden name Dorothy Black and the male pseudonym, Peter Delius. At first, she wrote diferent tipes of books, includes poetry and children's fiction, before center in romance fiction. She travelled widel, and used Burma and India as inspiration to many of her novels. In 1943 published anonymously "Letters of an Indian judge to an English gentlewoman", later reedited under her name. During the summer of 1949, she assisted the writer Marion Crawford, who was writing a series of features on life with Princess Margaret. In 1960, Dorothy wrote her auto-biography "The foot of the rainbow", center in her writing career. In total, she published over a hundred of novels and several short stories. Dorothy became a vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association, along with the mediatic writer Barbara Cartland. She passed away in 1977 in Scotland, UK.

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Letters of an Indian Judge to an English gentlewoman.
Representative edition published 1992
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Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman
Representative edition published 1991
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Letters of an Indian judge to an English gentlewoman
Representative edition published 1979
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Where love is
Representative edition published 1974
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Love belongs to everyone
Representative edition published 1972
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Romantic stranger
Representative edition published 1970
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Mistress of Skula
Representative edition published 1968
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Letters of an Indian judge to an English gentlewoman.
Representative edition published 1934
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Heritage of love
Representative edition published 1978
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Letters of an Indian judge to an English gentlewoman.
Representative edition published 1978
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A letter to my love
Representative edition published 1974
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It had to be you
Representative edition published 1974
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Forsaking all others
Representative edition published 1974
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From far away
Representative edition published 1974
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Flower of the snow
Representative edition published 1973
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I will remember
Representative edition published 1970
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Make this my home
Representative edition published 1969
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One Day in Spring
Representative edition published 1969
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Love Endureth
Representative edition published 1968
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The Foot of the Rainbow
Representative edition published 1961
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The hidden heart
Representative edition published 1947
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The sun is near
Representative edition published 1943
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My love belongs to me
Representative edition published 1942
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White woman
Representative edition published 1938
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