Lyndon Snow
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Lyndon Snow was one of the pseudonyms of Dorothy Phoebe Ansle. She was a British author of more than 200 Romances under a variety of pseudonyms.Born Dorothy Phoebe Ansle on 27 July 1890 in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England, UK, daugther of the second marriage formed by Mary Phillipps (née Embling), who ran a boardinghouse, and Frederick Philip Ansle (1897-1938), who had various profesions, like butcher and wine merchant. She was the younger child in common. She was a pupil at Royal Masonic School for Girls, and went on to some further education at Caversham. She married Irish Francis Ignatius Keogh, and they lived in Dublin before they instaled in London on 1927. On 1928, she published her first novel, under the penname of Hebe Elsna. She published more than 200 novels, mainly romance and dramatic novels or novelized historical biographies, under diferent pseudonyms and titles. She wrote under the pennames Hebe Elsna, Vicky Lancaster, Lyndon Snow, and Laura Conway. She later lived in Surrey and then Hove. Her husband died in 1965. She continued to live in the Hove area till her own death on 7 January 1983.
Books
Silence is golden
Gothic romance, set in Victorian England. Silence Eddington, a beautiful orphan, goes to work as a companion to the heiress of Hazelhurst Grange. Her pleasant stay is interrupted by several near-fatal accidents, as she tries to uncover the history of the people living in the Grange.
Golden Future
Celia wanted everything she shouldn't have. Here is the frank and fascinating account of the private life of a rising star.
The Little Goddess
Catherine Walters, also known as "Skittles" was a fashion trendsetter and one of the last of the great courtesans of Victorian London. Walters' benefactors are rumoured to have included intellectuals, leaders of political parties, aristocrats and a members of the British Royal Family, like poet Wilfred Seawen Blunt, Edward VII, Gladstone and Kitchener.