Aline Havard

Aline Havard was an early 20th-century novelist whose work now survives mainly through library and public-domain records. Project Gutenberg lists three Lucy Gordon novels by her, and the 1921 text of Captain Lucy in the Home Sector identifies her as the author of Captain Lucy in France, Captain Lucy and Lieutenant Bob, and Captain Lucy’s Flying Ace.

Those books suggest a writer interested in brisk adventure, wartime service, and young heroines meeting the upheavals of Europe with courage and good sense. In the introduction to Captain Lucy in the Home Sector, dated 1921, she writes directly to young readers and frames the story around the unsettled period after the First World War.

A later title, The Merry Monarch’s Wards, is listed in book-trade records from 1931. Beyond those published works, I couldn’t confirm much reliable biographical detail from the sources available here, so even her life dates remain uncertain from the evidence I found.