Dorothy Kathleen Broster (
1877-
1950) was a British
novelist, author of the
Jacobite Trilogy featuring, as its hero, the dashing Ewan Cameron. Educated at
Cheltenham Ladies' College[?] and
St. Hilda's College, Oxford (where she was one of the first students), she worked as a secretary to senior civil servants and served as a
Red Cross nurse during
World War I. She produced her best-seller,
The Flight of the Heron[?], in
1925, and followed it up with two successful sequels.