Josephine Tey

Josephine Tey was the pen name of Elizabeth Mackintosh, born in 1896 in Inverness, Scotland. She trained as a physical education teacher at the Anstey Physical Training College in Birmingham and taught briefly before returning home to care for her father after her mother's death. She began writing plays under the name Gordon Daviot, achieving considerable success with Richard of Bordeaux, which ran for over a year in London's West End in 1932 starring John Gielgud. She led a famously private life, rarely granting interviews and shunning literary circles. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Daughter of Time.