Leigh North

Very little firmly documented biographical information survives for Leigh North. Library and public-domain book records confirm works published under that name, including Predecessors of Cleopatra and Verses and Stories.

Some catalog records connect Leigh North with C. E. D. Phelps, and LibriVox notes that one source identified Leigh North as a pseudonym for Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, though it also says that claim could not be proven. Because the evidence is uncertain, it is safest to describe Leigh North as an author name attached to a small body of late-19th- and early-20th-century writing rather than to make stronger claims about identity.

What is clear is the flavor of the work itself: historical and literary, with an interest in storytelling and the ancient world. Predecessors of Cleopatra in particular helped preserve popular interest in notable women of Egyptian history for modern public-domain readers.