Alice Elizabeth Burton


Alice Elizabeth Burton or Aitken was a British-Canadian novelist and popular historian.

Life

Born in Cairo, she grew up in Windsor, Ontario. She later studied privately in Rome. In the 1940s she wrote comic fantasy novels under the pseudonym Susan Alice Kerby. In Miss Carter and the Ifrit, a Muslim spirit helped a spinster to find love during the Second World War. In Mr Kronion, a Greek god defended English village life.
From 1945 to 1965 she was the London correspondent of a Canadian daily, the Windsor Star.
Changing her surname by deed poll from Aitken to Burton in 1950, she published her historical writing as Elizabeth Burton.

Works

Novels

;As Alice Elizabeth Burton
;As Susan Alice Kerby