Mackintosh, Elizabeth (1896-1952)

Scottish novelist, dramatist, and biographer. As Gordon Daviot she wrote the plays Richard of Bordeaux (1933), which John Gielgud directed and starred in; Queen of Scots (1934), with Laurence Olivier; and the biography Claverhouse (1937). Her detective novels, written as Josephine Tey, include The Franchise Affair (1948), Brat Farrar (1949), and The Daughter of Time (1951).

She was born in Inverness. Refusing to go to university, she took a course in physical training, which she taught in schools in England before returning home to look after her father after her mother's death. The Daughter of Time re-examines the case of the little princes in the Tower of London.