Background
Morley was born at Carshalton, Surrey, the daughter of Colonel Lyddon Charteris Morley Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Gladys Vivienne Charteris Braddell.
Morley was born at Carshalton, Surrey, the daughter of Colonel Lyddon Charteris Morley Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Gladys Vivienne Charteris Braddell.
With Jacob she went to America where he was a foreign correspondent, and they stayed there until the beginning of World World War World War II During the war, she wrote her trilogy of historical novels - Cry Treason (1940), We Stood Foreign Freedom (1941) and The Mighty Years (1943) - with James Scott, the Duke of Monmouth, and William III, as central characters. Jacob was away for two years at this time reporting from various war zones. Morley was a journalist for The Observer and the Yorkshire Post.
She appears in Jacob"s book Scenes from a Bourgeois Life published in 1949 as Miranda Ireton.
Jacob and Morley had a daughter.