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MacInnes, Helen

Helen Clark MacInnes was a Scottish-American author born in Glasgow. She moved with her family to Helensburgh in 1912 where she attended the Hermitage School and the Glasgow High School for Girls before enrolling at the University of Glasgow in 1925, graduating with an MA in German and French in 1928. She then worked in libraries and schools around Glasgow and Dunbartonshire. She received a...

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Mason, A.E.W.

Alfred Edward Woodley Mason was a British author born in London. He attended Dulwich College and Trinity College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in literature in 1888. He engaged in amateur dramatics at university and also wrote his own plays. After graduating, he unsuccessfully tried the stage. Encouraged by his friend Oscar Wilde he turned to fiction instead, and successfully published an...

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