Molly Lefebure

Molly Lefebure FRSL (6 October 1919 – 27 February 2013) was a British writer with an interest in the English Lake District and the Lake Poets.

Early life Molly Lefebure was born in the London Borough of Hackney on 6 October 1919, the daughter of Charles Hector Lefebure OBE (1941 Birthday Honours) and Elizabeth Cox. Charles Lefebure's family was descended from prominent arms manufacturers in 18th-century Paris. He was a senior civil servant who worked with Sir William Beveridge on the establishment of the National Health Service, applying some of the revolutionary ideas of Robespierre, the Parisian Lefebures having professed Jacobin sympathies.

Some of Lefebure's forebears had been men of letters. One of them, Pierre Lefebure, helped to set up the Institut Français, and became a professor of languages at the newly formed University of London.

During childhood summers on a remote farm on Exmoor, arranged by her maternal grandmother, Lefebure learned to hunt. and the 2013 two-part ITV drama Murder on the Home Front, a title used for the book when it was republished in 1990.

Personal life Lefebure and John Gerrish married at Marylebone in 1945, after he returned from active service in India. In 1957 they bought a house, "Low High Snab", in Newlands Valley, Cumbria, where Lefebure wrote many of her books.