![]() ![]() Staniland, who had a keen interest in contemporary literature and owned a first edition of T.S. It was at this time that she met and married her first husband, Alan G. Unable to study English Literature, because she was never taught Latin or Greek, she took a diploma in journalism at London University (1925–1928), and wrote two novels under her own name in the early 1930s. She claimed in later years that she never would have been able to write crime novels if she had not learned German as a child from her nanny, the rigorous sentence structure and complex rules of grammar being an indispensable preparation for the architecture of a crime thriller. ![]() She attended Bedales School from 1918 to 1924. The deteriorating political climate between Britain and Germany led to her moving to Britain instead at the age of six. ![]() Her early years were in the hands of a German nanny, and the initial intention was that she should be sent to Berlin to complete her education. She was born in Rangoon (currently Yangon), Burma into a Scottish timber and rice-trading family. ![]() Elizabeth Ferrars (6 September 1907 – 30 March 1995), born Morna Doris MacTaggart, was a British crime writer. ![]()
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