I also found this--apparently she also used the pseudonym Ann St. John?
I saw that on her gravestone. I'm not sure how to take the co-authorship claim on the fiction. I've read novels co-written by couples (Frances and Richard Lockridge, Dick Francis), but The Westgate Mystery (1941) seems to be the only novel published under the Darby St. John name—it was reviewed on release as "a notable first detective story by a new author who will, we trust, be heard from again"—and when it was used to copyright film music, it can only have referred to the composer in the family. I suppose it's conceivable she/they could have used other pseudonyms not yet linked up with Elizabeth Bateson, but. I'm a lot more willing to accept it in the case of the play attributed to Darby St. John, knowing the husband's line.
And here's one of her stories (with some info about her)!
"Later in Hollywood sold some music for pictures."
I would have loved to hear her symphonies, as many of them as she numbered.
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I saw that on her gravestone. I'm not sure how to take the co-authorship claim on the fiction. I've read novels co-written by couples (Frances and Richard Lockridge, Dick Francis), but The Westgate Mystery (1941) seems to be the only novel published under the Darby St. John name—it was reviewed on release as "a notable first detective story by a new author who will, we trust, be heard from again"—and when it was used to copyright film music, it can only have referred to the composer in the family. I suppose it's conceivable she/they could have used other pseudonyms not yet linked up with Elizabeth Bateson, but. I'm a lot more willing to accept it in the case of the play attributed to Darby St. John, knowing the husband's line.
And here's one of her stories (with some info about her)!
"Later in Hollywood sold some music for pictures."
I would have loved to hear her symphonies, as many of them as she numbered.