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Doris Leslie
Doris Leslie (née Oppenheim, later Lady Fergusson Hannay) (9 March 1891 – 30 May 1982), was a British novelist and historical biographer. Her novel Peridot Flight (1956) was serialised in 10 episodes by BBC TV in October–December 1960.
Leslie was born in 1890. She was the last of four children born to a Jewish couple whose family were both involved in the tobacco trade. Her father recognised her talent and sent her to art school. However she wanted to be an actress and after training she appeared in Twelfth Night at the Old Vic as Viola. She married another actor, who served in the First World War and was then killed in the flu pandemic in 1919.
A number of her books had dust jackets with illustrated designs by period artists such as Philip Gough and Arthur Barbosa.
She was married three times: in 1914 to John Leslie Isaacson (1889–1919); in 1930 to Reginald Vincent Cookes (1894–1948); and in 1936 to Walter Fergusson Leisrink Hannay, who was knighted in 1951 and died in 1961.
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Doris Leslie
Doris Leslie (née Oppenheim, later Lady Fergusson Hannay) (9 March 1891 – 30 May 1982), was a British novelist and historical biographer. Her novel Peridot Flight (1956) was serialised in 10 episodes by BBC TV in October–December 1960.
Leslie was born in 1890. She was the last of four children born to a Jewish couple whose family were both involved in the tobacco trade. Her father recognised her talent and sent her to art school. However she wanted to be an actress and after training she appeared in Twelfth Night at the Old Vic as Viola. She married another actor, who served in the First World War and was then killed in the flu pandemic in 1919.
A number of her books had dust jackets with illustrated designs by period artists such as Philip Gough and Arthur Barbosa.
She was married three times: in 1914 to John Leslie Isaacson (1889–1919); in 1930 to Reginald Vincent Cookes (1894–1948); and in 1936 to Walter Fergusson Leisrink Hannay, who was knighted in 1951 and died in 1961.