Editing Josephine Tey (section)

== Death ==
Tey was intensely private, shunning all publicity throughout her life.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/31/robert-mccrum-elizabeth-mackintosh-mystery|title=Elizabeth Mackintosh: woman of mystery who deserves to be rediscovered|last=McCrum|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert McCrum|date=30 July 2011|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=17 October 2017|language=en-GB}}</ref>  During her last year, when she knew that she was terminally ill, she resolutely avoided all her friends as well. Her ultimate work, ''The Privateer'' (1952), was a romantic novel based on the life of the privateer [[Henry Morgan]]. She died of [[liver cancer]] at her sister Mary's home in London on 13 February 1952.<ref name=":0" />  Most of her friends, including Gielgud, were unaware that she was even ill.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Ewan |editor1-first=Elizabeth |title=The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004 |date=2006 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |location=Edinburgh |isbn=9780748626601 |page=233|display-editors=etal}}</ref> Her obituary in ''The Times'' appeared under her real name: "Miss E. Mackintosh Author of 'Richard of Bordeaux'".<ref name="Times"/>

Proceeds from Tey's estate, including royalties from her books, were assigned to the [[National Trust]].<ref name=":0" />