Dorothy MacLeish, née Black (27 March 1890 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK – 1977[2] in Scotland, UK) was a British journalist and writer of over 100 romance novels and several short stories from 1916 to 1974 under her maiden name Dorothy Black and as Peter Delius.
In 1934 published anonymously Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman, later reedited under her name.
[5] Because of her husband's job, they moved to Rangoon, Burma (now also known as Myanmar), where she started to published fiction.
On 7 January 1921, she described Burma as "A Paradise for Women" in an article for the London Daily Mail.
In the summer of 1949, she assisted Marion Crawford to write a series of features on life with Princess Margaret.