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Eleanor Scott (18921965) is the pseudonym of Helen Madeline Heys, born to John Kirkwood Leys, a barrister and novelist, and her mother, Ellen. Her early education was provided by her mother, who prepared both of her daughters to study at Oxford. After the Great War, Scott became a teacher, and later the principal of an Oxford teacher training college. Her first short story to appear in print wasThe Room,which was published in the Cornhill Magazine in October 1923, credited to H. M. Leys. In 1928, her first work bearing her pen name was published: the controversial novel War Among Ladies.

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