Dorothy lucie sanders biography of william
Dorothy lucie sanders biography of william
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Lucy Walker (writer)
Australian writer
For other people named Lucy Walker, see Lucy Walker (disambiguation).
Dorothy Lucie Sanders (4 May 1907 – 17 December 1987), better known under the pseudonym Lucy Walker, was a prolific and successful Australian romance novelist.
Personal life
Dorothy Lucie McClemans was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, on 4 May 1907, the second of five daughters.[1] Her father, William McClemans, was an Irish minister of the Church of England.
Her mother, Ada Lucy Walker, was from New Zealand.[2] After her parents divorced in 1928, her mother supported the family as a nurse and then as a Justice of the Peace.[1]
A qualified teacher from Perth College (1928), Dorothy taught in state schools in Western Australia until 1936.
She continued teaching later in London while her husband, Colsell Sanders, a fellow school teacher whom she married in 1936, completed his doctorate in education. They returned to Perth, Au