Mrs. Leighton

Born Marie Connor in 1867, Mrs. Leighton was a British novelist who built a busy career writing serial fiction and melodramatic novels. She is generally identified with Marie Connor Leighton, and she published widely during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

She married fellow writer Robert Leighton, and the two collaborated on Convict 99, one of the works most closely associated with her name. Accounts of her career describe her as highly productive, and her writing income is noted as having surpassed her husband's.

Mrs. Leighton's fiction was written for a broad popular audience, with an emphasis on dramatic storytelling and readable pace. Though not as widely remembered today as some of her contemporaries, she remains an interesting figure in popular British fiction of her era.