D. K. Broster

**Dorothy Kathleen Broster** (2 Satumba 1877 - 7 Fabrairu 1950), wacce aka fi sani da **DK Broster**, marubuciya ce kuma marubuciya 'yar Ingila. Labarinta ya ƙunshi labaran soyayya na tarihi da aka tsara a ƙarni na 18 ko farkon ƙarni na 19. Littafinta mafi shahara shine *The Flight of the Heron* (1925), wanda aka tsara a lokacin fitowar Jacobite na 1745. Labarun labarin ban tsoro na Broster sun nuna masu fasaha masu ban tsoro, 'yan mata masu sihiri, kujeru masu ban tsoro, da halittu masu ban mamaki da ke azabtar da mutane masu rai.   A cikin 2022, an sake buga wasu labaran ta na ban mamaki a cikin tarin *From the Abyss: Weird Fiction, 1907 - 1945*

Broster ta guji tallata kanta a lokacin rayuwarta. Yayin da take 'yar Ingila daga Liverpool, da yawa daga cikin masu karatunta sun yi kuskuren ɗauka cewa ita marubuciya ce namiji daga Scotland . 

## Tarihin Rayuwa
An haifi Dorothy Kathleen Broster a ranar 2 ga Satumba, 1877, ga Thomas Mawdsley Broster da Emilie Kathleen Gething,  a Devon Lodge (yanzu Monksferry House) a Grassendale Park, Garston, Liverpool, a bakin kogin Mersey .  "Kuma hakan ya sa ta ji daɗin rayuwarta a teku."  Lokacin da take da shekaru 16, iyalin sun ƙaura zuwa Cheltenham, inda ta halarci Kwalejin Mata ta Cheltenham . Daga 1896 zuwa 1898 ta karanta tarihi a Kwalejin St Hilda, Oxford, inda take ɗaya daga cikin ɗaliban farko, kodayake a wannan ranar ba a ba mata digiri ba. 

Broster ya yi aiki a matsayin sakatare ga Charles Harding Firth, ( Farfesa na Tarihi na Regius daga 1904 zuwa 1925) tsawon shekaru da dama, kuma ya yi aiki tare a kan wasu daga cikin ayyukansa. An rubuta littattafanta guda biyu na farko tare da wata abokiyar jami'a, Gertrude Winifred Taylor : *Chantemerle: A Romance of the Vendean War* (1911) da *The Vision Splendid* (1913) (game da Tractarian Movement ). 

A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya, ta yi aiki a matsayin ma'aikaciyar jinya ta Red Cross tare da wani asibiti na Faransa-Amurka, amma ta koma Ingila da ciwon gwiwa a 1916. Bayan yaƙin, ita da wata abokiyarta, Gertrude Schlich ('yar Wilhelm Philipp Daniel Schlich, farfesa na farko a fannin gandun daji a Oxford), suka ƙaura kusa da Battle, East Sussex, inda Broster ta yi aiki na cikakken lokaci a matsayin marubuciya. Tana cikin rukunin mata na farko da suka sami digirin farko na Fasaha da Digirin Digiri na Biyu a 1920 a Oxford . 

*Littafin The Yellow Poppy* (1920), wanda ya yi magana game da abubuwan da suka faru na ma'aurata masu arziki a lokacin juyin juya halin Faransa, daga baya Broster da W. Edward Stirling suka tsara shi don wasan kwaikwayo na London a 1922.  Ta samar da littafinta mafi kyawun siyarwa game da tarihin Scotland, *The Flight of the Heron*, a 1925.  Broster ta ce ta duba littattafan bincike guda tamanin kafin ta fara littafin.  Ta biyo baya da jerin littattafai guda biyu masu nasara, *The Gleam in the North* da *The Dark Mile* . Ta rubuta wasu littattafan tarihi da dama, waɗanda aka sake bugawa sosai a zamaninsu, kodayake wannan littafin Jacobite trilogy, wanda aka yi wahayi zuwa gare shi daga ziyarar makonni biyar zuwa abokai a Scotland kuma ya nuna Ewen Cameron mai sauri a matsayin gwarzo, ya kasance sananne sosai.

A lokacin aikinta, Broster ta rubuta waƙoƙi da dama, labarai, da kuma gajerun labarai, waɗanda aka tattara a cikin *A Fire of Driftwood* da *Couching at the Door* .  Labarin taken *Couching at the Door* ya ƙunshi wani mai zane da wani abu mai ban mamaki ya mamaye.  Sauran labaran allahntaka sun haɗa da "Clairvoyance", (1932) game da wata yarinya mai sihiri, "Juggernaut" (1935) game da kujera mai fatalwa, da "The Pestering", (1932) wanda ya mai da hankali kan ma'aurata da wani abu mai ban mamaki ya azabtar.  A cikin 2022, an buga tarin labarai goma sha ɗaya mai suna *From the Abyss* ta Handheld Press (Bath UK), wanda Melissa Edmundson ta shirya.

Broster ta guji tallata kanta. A lokacin rayuwarta, da yawa daga cikin masu karatunta sun yi kuskuren ɗauka cewa namiji ne kuma ɗan ƙasar Scotland.  Ta mutu a Asibitin Bexhill a ranar 7 ga Fabrairu, 1950, tana da shekaru 73.

## Karɓar girmamawa mai mahimmanci
Masanin tarihin adabi Jack Adrian ya bayyana *Coching at the Door* a matsayin "aikin fasaha mai tsarki, ɗaya daga cikin tarin abubuwan ban mamaki mafi gamsarwa na ƙarni".  Mawakiyar Patricia Beer ta kasance mai sha'awar littattafan Broster, tana mai cewa ta yi sha'awar *The Flight of the Heron* lokacin da ta karanta shi tana da shekaru goma sha uku. 

## Daidaitawar kafofin watsa labarai
An daidaita *fim ɗin "Flight of the Heron"* don rediyon BBC sau biyu, a shekarar 1944 (wanda Gordon Jackson ya fito a matsayin Ewen Cameron)  sannan kuma a shekarar 1959, inda ya fito a matsayin ( Bryden Murdoch a matsayin Cameron).  Murdoch ya kuma fito a cikin shirye-shiryen rediyo na jerin littattafan, *The Gleam in the North*  da *The Dark Mile* . 

An kuma daidaita labarin al'ajabi mai suna "The Pestering" don rediyo. An sake watsa shirin " Flight of the Heron " sau biyu a talabijin: ta gidan talabijin na Scotland a shirye-shirye takwas a shekarar 1968, da kuma ta BBC a shekarar 1976, wanda David Rintoul ya fito a matsayin Ewen Cameron da Tom Chadbon a matsayin Keith Windham.

## Littattafan tarihi

### Labarai

* *Chantemerle: Soyayyar Yaƙin Vendean* (1911) (tare da GW Taylor)
* *The Vision Splendid* (1913) (tare da GW Taylor)
* *Sir Isumbras a Ford* (1918)
* *Rawayayen Poppy* (1920)
* *Sunan da aka Raunata* (1922)
* *"Mr. Rowl"* (1924)
* *Jirgin Heron* (1925)
* *Haske a Arewa* (1927)
* *Mile Mai Duhu* (1929)
* *Jiragen Ruwa a Tekun!* (1931)
* *Almond, Almond na Daji* (1933)
* *Duniya a ƙarƙashin Dusar ƙanƙara* (1935) (tare da G. Forester)
* *Ɗan Sarauta* (1937)
* *Teku ba tare da Hasumiyar Ruwa ba* (1941)
* *Uwargidan Kyaftin* (1947)

### Tarin abubuwa

* *Wutar Driftwood* (1932)
* *Kwanciya a Ƙofa: Labarai Masu Ban Mamaki da Ban Mamaki* (1942)
* *Daga Abyss: Labarin Almara Mai Ban Mamaki, 1907 - 1945* (2022)

### Waƙa

* *Tafiya Mai Gajere* (1951)

### Ba almara ba

* *Jarumin Farin Ciki: AAC de Brunet, Count de Neuilly* (1926)

### Sigar Omnibus

* *Wani Jerin Jakobi* (1984) (wanda ya haɗa da *Fitowar Heron*, *Gleam a Arewa* da kuma *Dark Mile* )

## Manazarta