Author · 1890–1983
Hebe Elsna
Hebe Elsna (1890–1983).
Our catalogue lists 4 books by Hebe Elsna, mostly gothic fiction, historical romance and horror. They span 1950 to 1976. The most-read is The Undying Past (1964).
Books by Hebe Elsna
The Undying Past
Hebe Elsna, Laura Conway
Too Well Beloved:(Pleasance#2)
Hebe Elsna, Laura Conway
Cast a Long Shadow
Hebe Elsna, Laura Conway
No Shallow Stream = The World of Christy Pembroke
Hebe Elsna, Lyndon Snow
Biography
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.