Name Amelie Leroy Role Writer | Died 1934 | |
Books Harum Scarum: The Story of a Wild Girl | ||
Amélie Claire Leroy (1851–1934) was an English writer, who wrote over 60 works often using the pseudonym Esmè Stuart.
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Life
Leroy lived for a while with the novelist Anna Rachel Bramston (Witham 1848/9–1931) and they adopted a daughter called Juliette.
Literature
Leroy wrote seven dozen novels, many of them aimed at young women, in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. One of her best known series, the Harum Scarum novels, features the wild Australian schoolgirl Antonia "Toney" Whitburn, forced to live with her aristocratic aunt and uncle in England.
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