Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) was a British novelist, born near Liverpool on the Lancashire coast, 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 served as a Red Cross nurse during World War I with a voluntary Franco-American hospital. Following the war she returned to Oxford where she worked as a secretary to the Regius Professor of history and senior civil servants She produced her best-seller, The Flight of the Heron , in 1925, and followed it up with two successful sequels.