Elizabeth Ferrars (International) assertion Elizabeth Ferrars i(A48357 works by) (birth name: Morna Doris MacTaggart) (a.k.a. Morna Doris Brown; E. X. Ferrars)
Born: Established: 6 Sep 1907 Rangoon,
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Burma,
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Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ; Died: Ceased: 30 Mar 1995
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Scotland,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Daughter of Scottish father Peter Clouston and Anglo-German mother Marie (Ferrars) MacTaggart, Morna was educated at Bedale and graduated with a diploma in journalism from the University College, London in 1928. She started writing, she said, at the age of six (quoted in her obituary, The Times 3 April 1995), and published her first novels under her maiden name in the 1930s. After her second marriage, to plant physiologist Robert Brown in 1940, she embarked on a career of writing crime fiction. She published prolifically, both in the UK as 'Elizabeth Ferrars' and in America, where publishers insisted on a second initial, as 'Elizabeth X.Ferrars'. She lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, but must have visited South Australia on at least one occasion. Details of her visit(s) are not known.

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Notes

  • Elizabeth Ferrars published prolifically, but only those books which indicate an Australian connection are listed here.

Affiliation Notes

  • Visited or worked in SA for a period
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