History Creator / DKBroster

* ''"Mr Rowl"'' (1924)

* "The Short Voyage" (1951)

After attending college, she went to France during WorldWarOne as a volunteer nurse for the British Red Cross, but her service was cut short by a knee infection. At home, she was known as an intensely private person, even to her own family, and would eventually pass away unmarried.

* ''The Happy Warrior: A. A. C. de Brunet, Count de Neuilly'' (1926)

Dorothy Kathleen Broster (2 September 1877 – 7 February 1950), known as D.K. Broster was a popular British novelist and short-story writer of the early 20th century. A student of and The Cheltenham Ladies College and St. Hilda's College, Oxford, she was one of the first women students at Oxford. She received her degree in Modern History from Oxford in 1920, the year that graduation was extended to women.

After attending college, she went to France in WorldWarOne as a volunteer nurse for the British Red Cross, but her service was cut short by a knee infection. At home, she was known as an intensely private person, even to her own family, and would eventually pass away unmarried.

Between 1911 and 1947, she produced 15 popular novels and several short stories and poems, among these the well-known ''Couching at the Door: Strange and Macabre Tales'', ''The Vision Splendid'' (co-authored with G.W. Taylor, a college friend of hers), and ''The Flight of the Heron'' and the sequels that make up ''The Jacobite Trilogy''. ''The Flight of the Heron'' in particular is known for its impressive historical and geographical accuracy; [[http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/broster.html the author was said to have consulted eighty reference books (!) before writing it]]. These above works, along with her others, are noticeably dated in writing style, but modern readers will still find them entirely readable.

Broster is often noted for the [[HeterosexualLifePartners intense male friendships]] that appear in several of her novels, most notably ''The Wounded Name'', which "includes a love interest, but the female characters are very secondary and the love stories, whilst ostensibly driving the plot at times, actually take a back seat to the interplay of male personalities which is what really seems to interest D K Broster. Male/female interaction is present but predictable; [[http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/broster.html the real emotional focus is on what is going on between the men.]]". And though it is not known if Broster intentionally included HomoeroticSubtext in her works, her books contain such deep affection between male friends that they are often read and recommended as gay romance or "pre-slash". Indeed, ''The Wounded Name'', ''The Flight of the Heron'', ''Mr. Rowl'', and many of her other works were highly popular with teenage girls in the mid-20th Century for their romantic male leads, deeply explored themes of loyalty and friendship, dramatic storylines, and a good amount of adventure. Slash fan or not, anyone looking for an entertaining and well-researched historical novel can look to Broster for their next read.

* ''Literature/{{TheWoundedName}}'' (1922)

* ''The Wounded Name'' (1922)

** ''The Flight of the Heron'' (1925)