The undying past

Pleasance #3

by Hebe Elsna

Pleasance, built in the reign of Edward IV, desends to the women in the Grenton family. The Undying Past, the third and last volume of a trilogy, chronicles the residence there of Ives, an immensely rich gentleman from Virginia, who comes to live at Pleasance during the early days of Queen Victoria's reign.

Genres: Gothic

158 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

Dorothy Phoebe Ansle Keogh wrote under the pennames Hebe Elsna, Vicky Lancaster, Lyndon Snow, and Laura Conway.

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 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.

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