Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Dorothy Kathleen Broster (2 September 1877 – 7 February 1950), usually known as D.K. Broster, was a British novelist and short-story writer, born in Garston, Liverpool at Devon Lodge (now known as Monksferry House), which lies in Grassendale Park on the banks of the River Mersey. 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. Broster's first two novels wereco-written with Gertrude Winifred Taylor; Chantemerle: A Romance of the Vendean War and The Vision Splendid(about the Tractarian Movement).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 aboutScottish history, The Flight of the Heron, in 1925. Broster stated she had consultedeighty reference books before beginning the novel. Broster 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 this Jacobite Trilogy, featuring the dashing hero Ewen Cameron, remain the best known. The Flight of the Heron has been made into a TV serial twice: by Scottish Television in eight episodes in 1968, and by the BBC in 1976.The poet Patricia Beer was an admirer of Broster's novels, stating she had been fascinated by The Flight of the Heron when she read it aged thirteen.Broster also wrote several short horror stories, collected in "A Fire of Driftwood" and Couching at the Door.The title story of "Couching at the Door" involves an artist haunted by a mysterious entity. Other supernaturaltales include "Clairvoyance", about a psychic girl, (1932), and "Juggernaut" (1935) about a haunted chair. Jack Adrian describesCouching at the Door as "a pure masterwork, one of the most satisfying weird collections of the century".Broster was a private individual who avoided publicity; during her lifetime, many of her readers wrongly assumed she wasboth male and Scottish.. }
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- D._K._Broster abstract "Dorothy Kathleen Broster (2 September 1877 – 7 February 1950), usually known as D.K. Broster, was a British novelist and short-story writer, born in Garston, Liverpool at Devon Lodge (now known as Monksferry House), which lies in Grassendale Park on the banks of the River Mersey. 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. Broster's first two novels wereco-written with Gertrude Winifred Taylor; Chantemerle: A Romance of the Vendean War and The Vision Splendid(about the Tractarian Movement).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 aboutScottish history, The Flight of the Heron, in 1925. Broster stated she had consultedeighty reference books before beginning the novel. Broster 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 this Jacobite Trilogy, featuring the dashing hero Ewen Cameron, remain the best known. The Flight of the Heron has been made into a TV serial twice: by Scottish Television in eight episodes in 1968, and by the BBC in 1976.The poet Patricia Beer was an admirer of Broster's novels, stating she had been fascinated by The Flight of the Heron when she read it aged thirteen.Broster also wrote several short horror stories, collected in "A Fire of Driftwood" and Couching at the Door.The title story of "Couching at the Door" involves an artist haunted by a mysterious entity. Other supernaturaltales include "Clairvoyance", about a psychic girl, (1932), and "Juggernaut" (1935) about a haunted chair. Jack Adrian describesCouching at the Door as "a pure masterwork, one of the most satisfying weird collections of the century".Broster was a private individual who avoided publicity; during her lifetime, many of her readers wrongly assumed she wasboth male and Scottish.".