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Marie Connor Leighton
d. 1941
A hugely popular writer of sensation and serial fiction, she turned out melodramas and page-turners that captivated late Victorian and Edwardian readers. She is especially remembered for Convict 99, written with her husband, fellow novelist Robert Leighton.
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Boy of My Heart
by Marie Connor Leighton
About the author
Born in 1867 and later known as Marie Connor Leighton, she built a remarkably productive career writing serial fiction and melodramatic novels. Contemporary and reference sources describe her as a prolific author, and her work appeared at a time when magazine serials and popular fiction reached very wide audiences.
She married the writer Robert Leighton, and the two collaborated on Convict 99, one of the works most often linked with her name. Their daughter was the artist and writer Clare Leighton, which places her within a notably creative literary family.
Marie Connor Leighton died on January 28, 1941. A surviving portrait was not clearly available from the page I could confirm, so no profile image is included here.