A&m burrage biography

British writer

Alfred McLelland Burrage (1889–1956) was a British writer. He was noted in his time as an author of fiction for boys which he published under the pseudonym Frank Lelland, including a popular series called "Tufty".^[1] After his death, however, Burrage became best known for his ghost stories.^[1]

Life and work

Burrage was born in Hillingdon, London, in 1889.

His father, Alfred Sherrington Burrage, and his uncle, Edwin Harcourt Burrage, were both prolific writers of magazine stories for boys. Burrage attended St Augustine's Abbey School in Ramsgate. After his father died in 1906, A.

M. Burrage began writing fiction, partly to support his family.^[2] Burrage's main market for his fiction were British pulp magazines, such as The Grand Magazine, The Novel Magazine, Cassell's Magazine and The Weekly Tale-Teller.^[2]

He served in the Artists’ Rifles in the First World War.^[2] Burrage's publisher,