Jean S. MacLeod
Jean S. MacLeod was a prolific British writer of over 130 romance novels from 1936 to 1996, she also used the pseudonym of Catherine Airlie.
Biography
Personal life
Born Jane Sutherland MacLeod on 20 January 1908 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Elizabeth Allen and John MacLeod. She was actually named Jane, but her grandfather complained it was not Scottish enough, and it was changed to Jean. Her father, who was a civil engineer, moved her family with jobs. Her education began at Bearsden Academy, continued in Swansea and ended in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.She worked in a sweet shop. She moved to North Yorkshire, England to marry with Major Lionel Walton on 1 January 1935, an electricity board executive, who died in 1995. They had a son, David Walton, who died two years before her. She died on 11 April 2011 in Yorkshire, England, at 103 years of age.
Writing career
MacLeod started writing stories for the magazine The People's Friend, before sold her first romance novel in 1936. She wrote contemporary romances, most of them were set in her native Scotland, or in exotic places like Spain or Caribbean, places that she normally visited for documented. From 1948 to 1965, she also published under the pseudonym of Catherine Airlie. She was the first author published in the Mills & Boon Romance Series.MacLeod was member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, where she met the mediatic writer Barbara Cartland, who was not too friendly.
As Jean S. MacLeod
Life for Two Human Symphony Dangerous Obsession Mist Across the Hills Sequel to Youth Summer Rain Return to Spring Run Away From Love Nurse CompanionThe Rainbow Isle Heatherbloom Silent Bondage a.k.a. Doctor in BondageThe Lonely Farrow The Whim of Fate Forbidden Rapture One Way Out The Reckless Pilgrim The Shadow of a Vow Bleak Heritage Blind Journey Penalty for Living Reluctant Folly Flower O' the Broom The Circle of Doubt The Rowan Tree Unseen Tomorrow Lamont of Ardgoyne Two Paths Brief Fulfillment One Love The Bridge of Years This Much To Give a.k.a. Special NurseSown in the Wind The Tranquil Haven And We in Dreams The House of Oliver Ravenscrag The Chalet in the Sun a.k.a. Mountain ClinicAbove the Lattice a.k.a. Doctor's DaughterTo Morrow's Bargain Katherine Once to Every Heart Roadway to the Past Cameron of Gare Music at Midnight The Silent Valley The Stranger in Their Midst Dear Doctor Everett The Man in Authority a.k.a. Nurse LangAfter Long Journeying Master of Glenkeith My Heart's in the Highlands The Way in the Dark Journey in the Sun a.k.a. Doctors TogetherThe Prisoner of Love Air Ambulance The Gated Road The Little Doctor The White Cockade The Silver Dragon Slave of the Wind The Dark Fortune Sugar Island The Black Cameron Crane Castle The Tender Glory The Wolf of Heimra The Drummer of Corrae Lament for a Lover a.k.a. Lament for LoveThe Bride of Mingalay The Master of Keills The Moonflower Summer Island The Joshua Tree The Light in the Tower The Way Through the Valley Moment of Decision Scent of Juniper Adam's Wife a.k.a. Adam's DaughterThe Rainbow Days Over the Castle Wall Time Suspended The Phantom Pipes Journey into Spring Viking Song Island Stranger Search for Yesterday The Ruaig Inheritance Meeting in Madrid Brief Enchantment Black Sand, White Sand Cruel Deception Moreton's Kingdom Zamora A Distant Paradise Beyond the Reef Valley of the Snows The Olive Grove The Apollo Man a.k.a. The Romance of EmvaAfter the Hurricane Call Back the Past Legacy of Doubt Shadow on the Hills Flame of Avila Tidal Wave Tidal Wave Home to the Hills A Handful of Shells The Jade Pagoda Keeper of the Trees- ''Lovesome Hill''