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Wingfield, R.D.
His full name was Rodney David Wingfield, an English author and dramatist, born in Hackney in London. He was educated at Cooper’s Company School in London, but spent a long time in Somerset, as the school’s pupils were evacuated to Frome during the Second World War. He was exempted from National Service primarily on account of his poor eyesight. Instead, after the war he had various jobs, mainly a...
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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...