Leila Antoinette Sterling Mackinlay | |
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| Born | Leila Antoinette Sterling Mackinlay 5 September 1910 London, England |
| Died | 13 April 1996 (aged 85) Camden Town, London, England |
| Pen name | Leila Mackinlay, Leila S. Mackinlay, Brenda Grey |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1930–1979 |
| Genre | romance |
| Relatives | Malcolm Sterling Mackinlay (father) Antoinette Sterling (grandmother) |
Leila Antoinette Sterling Mackinlay (5 September 1910 – 13 April 1996) was a British writer of romance novels from 1930 to 1979 as Leila S. Mackinlay or Leila Mackinlay and also under the pseudonym Brenda Grey. Some of her novels are based on real people like Madame Vestris, Lola Montez or Jane Elizabeth Digby; she also wrote Musical Productions, a musical book. She was the daughter of the musician and writer Malcolm Sterling Mackinlay and granddaughter of the vocalist Antoinette Sterling.
She was the seventh elected chairman (1973–1975) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.[1]