Molly Lefebure

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Molly Leferbure is a British writer who has an interest in the English Lake District.

[edit] Biography

Molly Lefebure was born in London and was educated at the North London Collegiate School. She went on to to study at King's College London at the University of London where she met her husband. During WWII she worked as a newspaper reporter for a London newspaper. During the war she met Dr Keith Simpson (The Pathologist) and worked for him as his secretary. She gained information for her first book Evidence for the Crown, and went to live with her husband and her two children at Kingston-upon-Thames by the river. ^[1]

Her children's books include illustrations by the famous Lakeland author, hill walker and illustrator Alfred Wainwright

She is a Coleridge scholar. After studying drug addiction at Guy's Hospital in London for six years, she wrote a biography of Coleridge that researched the effect on his life of his addiction to opiates.

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Evidence for the Crown: Experiences of a Pathogist's Secretary ^[1]
Murder on the Home Front: The Unique Wartime Memoirs of a Patholgist's Secretary ^[1]
Murder with a Difference: The Cases of Haigh and Christie ^[1]
Cumberland Heritage (Chapters include Camden, Braithwaite, Millbeck, Fellwalkers, Carlisle Canal, Armboth, John Peel (Farmer) and The Blencathra).with endpaper maps of old Cumberland. ^[1]
Illustrated Lakeland Poets ^[1]