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Denise Robins (1897–1985)

Auteur van Fauna Trilogy, 1-3

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Romance author Denise Robins was born on February 1, 1897. During her lifetime, she wrote short stories, plays, and about two hundred novels using a variety of pen-names including Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Julia Kane, and Francesca Wright. She died on May 1, 1985. (Bowker Author Biography)
Fotografie: Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson

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Werken van Denise Robins

Fauna Trilogy, 1-3 (1978) 19 exemplaren
House of the Seventh Cross (1967) 7 exemplaren
Life and Love (1935) 6 exemplaren
My Lady Destiny (1961) 6 exemplaren
Strange Rapture (1932) 6 exemplaren
The Loves of Lucrezia (1953) 6 exemplaren
Venetian Rhapsody (1954) 6 exemplaren
To Love Again (1949) 6 exemplaren
Khamsin (1948) 6 exemplaren
Een liefde in Monte Carlo (1955) 5 exemplaren
The Tiger in Men (1937) 5 exemplaren
The Seagull's Cry (1957) 5 exemplaren
Second Best (1931) 5 exemplaren
Bride of Doom (1956) 5 exemplaren
Desert Rapture (1944) 5 exemplaren
Gold for the Gay Masters (1954) 5 exemplaren
The Unlit Fire (1960) 5 exemplaren
Dance in the Dust (1959) 5 exemplaren
Since We Love (1938) 4 exemplaren
The Boundary Line (1932) 4 exemplaren
Chateau of Flowers (1958) 4 exemplaren
Kiss of Youth (1937) 4 exemplaren
De vreemde wegen van de liefde (1966) 4 exemplaren
Lightning Strikes Twice (1966) 4 exemplaren
And All Because (1930) 4 exemplaren
Love Is Enough (1941) 4 exemplaren
The Flame and the Frost (1957) 4 exemplaren
You Have Chosen (1938) 4 exemplaren
Gypsy Lover (1939) 4 exemplaren
The Enduring Flame (1929) 4 exemplaren
Dark, Secret Love (1962) 4 exemplaren
The Other Side of Love (1973) 4 exemplaren
To Love is To Live (1940) 4 exemplaren
Restless Heart (1938) 4 exemplaren
My True Love (1953) 4 exemplaren
Family Holiday (1937) 4 exemplaren
We Two Together (1959) 4 exemplaren
Women Who Seek (1928) 3 exemplaren
Those Who Love (1936) 3 exemplaren
Heat Wave... (1930) 3 exemplaren
Moment of Love (1964) 3 exemplaren
Love and Desire and Hate (1969) 3 exemplaren
Sweet Love (1934) 3 exemplaren
Twice Have I Loved (1973) 3 exemplaren
The Other Love (1952) 3 exemplaren
The Snow Must Return (1971) 3 exemplaren
The Unshaken Loyalty (1954) 3 exemplaren
Nightingale's Song (1963) 3 exemplaren
Fever of Love (1931) 3 exemplaren
Shatter the Sky (1933) 3 exemplaren
More Than Love (1947) 3 exemplaren
Wait for Tomorrow (1967) 3 exemplaren
Brief Ecstasy (1934) 3 exemplaren
Dark Corridor (1974) 3 exemplaren
Jonquil (1927) 3 exemplaren
Were I Thy Bride = Betrayal (1935) 3 exemplaren
She-Devil = Jezebel (1970) 3 exemplaren
Forbidden (1971) 3 exemplaren
Escape to Love (1943) 3 exemplaren
The Noble One (1957) 3 exemplaren
The Long Shadow (1954) 3 exemplaren
A Promise Is For Ever (1961) 3 exemplaren
Something to Love (1951) 3 exemplaren
War Marriage = Let Me Love (1942) 3 exemplaren
Mad is the Heart (1963) 3 exemplaren
Put Back the Clock (1962) 3 exemplaren
Set the Stars Alight (1941) 2 exemplaren
A Love Like Ours (1969) 2 exemplaren
Love's Triumph (1983) 2 exemplaren
The Marriage Bond (1924) 2 exemplaren
The Wild Bird (1932) 2 exemplaren
Love Game (1936) 2 exemplaren
Life's a Game (1933) 2 exemplaren
White Jade (1928) 2 exemplaren
Crowns, Pounds and Guineas (1931) 2 exemplaren
Sealed Lips (1924) 2 exemplaren
Heavy Clay (1929) 2 exemplaren
Enchanted Island (1956) 2 exemplaren
The Story of Veronica (1946) 2 exemplaren
How Great the Price (1935) 2 exemplaren
Bitter-Sweet (1955) 2 exemplaren
Love, Volume I (Omnibus) (1979) 2 exemplaren
Sweet Cassandra (1970) 2 exemplaren
The Price of Folly (1968) 2 exemplaren
All this for Love (1935) 2 exemplaren
Figs in Frost (1946) 2 exemplaren
One Night in Ceylon, and others (1931) 2 exemplaren
Dear Loyalty (1939) 2 exemplaren
Murder in Mayfair (1935) 2 exemplaren
Officer's Wife (1939) 2 exemplaren
The Woman's Side of It (1937) 2 exemplaren
The Inevitable End (1927) 2 exemplaren
Never Give All (1934) 2 exemplaren
Honour's Price (1929) 2 exemplaren
Blaze of Love (1932) 2 exemplaren
The Bitter Core (1954) 2 exemplaren
The Passionate Flame (1928) 2 exemplaren
Lovers of Janine (1931) 2 exemplaren
Heart of Paris (1951) 2 exemplaren
Strange Meeting (1952) 2 exemplaren
Loving and Giving (1965) 2 exemplaren
When a Woman Loves (1955) 2 exemplaren
I, Too, Have Loved (1939) 2 exemplaren
Reputation (1963) 2 exemplaren
Island of Flowers (1940) 2 exemplaren
Could I Forget (1948) 2 exemplaren
Slave-Woman (1934) 2 exemplaren
This Spring of Love (1943) 2 exemplaren
Australian Opal Safari (1974) 2 exemplaren
It Wasn't Love (1930) 2 exemplaren
Dust of Dreams (1940) 2 exemplaren
The Secret Hour (1932) 2 exemplaren
The Untrodden Snow (1958) 2 exemplaren
The Changing Years (1943) 2 exemplaren
Climb to the Stars (1935) 2 exemplaren
The Strong Heart (1965) 2 exemplaren
Little We Know (1940) 2 exemplaren
Gay Defeat (1933) 2 exemplaren
Do Not Go, My Love (1959) 2 exemplaren
All For You (1946) 2 exemplaren
Swing of Youth (1930) 2 exemplaren
All That Matters (1956) 1 exemplaar
Second Marriage (1951) 1 exemplaar
Set Me Free (1937) 1 exemplaar
Aşkın bana yeter 1 exemplaar
Stranger Than Fiction (1965) 1 exemplaar
Love's Broken Idol (1918) 1 exemplaar
Breaking Point (1956) 1 exemplaar
Queen of the Roses (1943) 1 exemplaar
Christmas Roses (1942) 1 exemplaar
What Wendy Did (1942) 1 exemplaar
When Love Called (1942) 1 exemplaar
The Sin Was Mine (1964) 1 exemplaar
Once Is Enough (1953) 1 exemplaar
Systurnar 1 exemplaar
Time Runs Out (1968) 1 exemplaar
Love, Volume IX (Omnibus) (1980) 1 exemplaar
KALBIMDEKI CINGENE 1 exemplaar
Odota huomista (1980) 1 exemplaar
The Madness of Love (1950) 1 exemplaar
The Hard Way (1949) 1 exemplaar
Never Look Back (1944) 1 exemplaar
Winged Love (1940) 1 exemplaar
This One Night (1942) 1 exemplaar
Arrow in the Heart (1960) 1 exemplaar
Two Loves (1954) 1 exemplaar
The First Long Kiss (1953) 1 exemplaar
Give Me Back My Heart (1944) 1 exemplaar
Illusion of Love (1924) 1 exemplaar
Love Poems, and others (1930) 1 exemplaar
The Enchantress (1929) 1 exemplaar
Infatuation (1951) 1 exemplaar
Love Was a Jest (1929) 1 exemplaar
Masquerade of Love (1985) 1 exemplaar
O Love! O Fire! (1966) 1 exemplaar
Men Are Only Human (1933) 1 exemplaar
Greater Than All (1946) 1 exemplaar
Forgive Me, My Love (1947) 1 exemplaar
Love, Volume VII (Omnibus) (1980) 1 exemplaar
War changes Everything (1943) 1 exemplaar
I Should Have Known (1961) 1 exemplaar
Come Back, Yesterday (1976) 1 exemplaar
The Uncertain Heart (1949) 1 exemplaar
Daughter Knows Best (1943) 1 exemplaar
If This Be Destiny (1941) 1 exemplaar
Separation (1946) 1 exemplaar
Love So Young (1945) 1 exemplaar
The Dark Death (1929) 1 exemplaar
Love Me No More (1948) 1 exemplaar
What Matters Most (1942) 1 exemplaar
How to Forget (1944) 1 exemplaar
The World of Romance (anthology) (1964) — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar

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Officiële naam
Klein Robins Pearson, Denise Naomi
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Chesterton, Denise
Robins, Denise
Robins, Denise
Hamilton, Hervey
Wright, Francesca
French, Ashley (toon alle 8)
Gray, Harriet
Kane, Julia
Geboortedatum
1897-02-01
Overlijdensdatum
1985-05-01
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
UK (birth)
Geboorteplaats
London, England, UK
Plaats van overlijden
England, UK
Woonplaatsen
London, England, UK
Beroepen
journalist
freelance writer
novelist
Relaties
Dealtry, Kit (mother)
Cornwell-Clyne, Adrian (brother)
Robins, Patricia (daughter)
Klein, Herman (father)
Organisaties
Romantic Novelists' Association (President, 1960-66)
Agent
Curtis Brown
Korte biografie
Denise Naomi Klein was born on 1 February 1897 in London, England, daughter of Herman Klein (1856-1934) and Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell (1872-1954). Her parents married on 19 February 1890 at the West London Synagogue, her father was a English music critic, author and teacher of singing and her mother was a Australian-born heiress, 16 years younger than him. Denise had a half-sister, Sibyl Klein, who became an actress. She also had two older brothers, Adrian Bernard L. Klein (1892-1969), who later changed his name to Adrian Cornwell-Clyne and wrote books on photography and cinematography, and Daryl Kleyn (b. 1894). During her parents marriage, her mother began an affair with a young Worcestershire Regiment officer, Herbert Arthur Berkeley Dealtry (b. 1878). When her father became aware of it, he filed a petition for divorce, which was granted in December 1901. After the divorce, her mother married Dealtry in 1902, but they were going through financial difficulties. They had to declare bankruptcy in 1905. The same year her father remarried with Helene Fox, a Christian Science practitioner of Boston, Massachusetts.

As Kit Dealtry, her mother began to publish her own writings, first short stories in magazines an later gothic novels. Years later, and single again her mother returned to London. In 1918, and remarried for a third time with Sydney H. Groom, and started to sign her novels as C. Groom, Mrs Sydney Groom, Kathleen Clarice Groom and Clarice Groom. After Naomi left school, she decided follow in her mother's footsteps, and to publish her writings. She went to work as a journalist for the D.C. Thomson Press, then became a freelance writer. Denise married Arthur Robins, a corn broker on the Baltic Exchange, but the marriage ended in divorce, after she met O'Neill Pearson in Egypt, who later became her second husband. She was the mother of three daughters, Patricia Robins (also know as Claire Lorrimer) who became another best-selling romance author, Anne, and Eve.

As a writer of fiction, Denise wrote short stories, plays and about 200 gothic romance novels under a variety of pseudonyms, including: Denise Chesterton, Hervey Hamilton, Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, and Julia Kane, she also used to sign the books her first married name, Denise Robins, and some of her books were reedited under this pen-name. In 1927, over ten years after she began to publish, Denise meet Charles Boon, of Mills & Boon, and she signed her first contract with his firm the same year. In a short time, she became the best paid Mills & Boon's writer, and one of the most prolific, but in 1935 she changed to a new publisher, Nicholson & Watson, that made her a better offer, and later with Hodder & Stoughton. During her very long career she worked with major publishing houses. Taylor Caldwell said: "Rarely has any writer of our times delved so deeply into the secret places of a woman's heart." As in her real life, many of her novels are love triangles, and also appear as a backdrop the World Wars.

In 1960, she founded with other romance writers the "Romantic Novelists' Association" (R.N.A.), and she was its first president until 1966. In 1965, she wrote her autobiography, "Stranger Than Fiction". Denise passed away 1 May 1985 in her native England. At the time of her death her novels, translated into 15 languages, had sold more than 100 million copies. In 1984, they were borrowed more than 1.5 million times from British libraries.

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The book had been almost entirely a family thing- the feelings and problems of married couples and an eye opener in that sense.But when it started getting longer it became boring. What i really liked was the ending which was beatiful and perfect for the story althought not surprisingly strange for such a storyline.
The essence of the book:Mrs.Christina Allen narrates how her married life hadn't worked out the way she had planned and hence was applying for divorce and to be remarried to Philip Cranleigh.She decidedly writes a diary stating the whole truth about her marriage from the beginn. but slowly as she completes the book she understands that she doesnt really want to get married with this new man plus lose her children forever.She lets go of him but ahead with the divorce if Charles needed it.The climax however is that Charles meets with an accident that kills James his son and charles' step mother.Christina returns to nurse injured Charles and take care of things and hopes charles will allow her to stay in their once home and be his wife again to which he gladly consents… (meer)
 
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Linnabraham | 2 andere besprekingen | Jan 6, 2022 |
Look, sometimes you just have to meet a book where it is. This story is absolutely ridiculous, and filled to the brim with so many stereotypes that if you think about it too hard, your head will spin. Our tragic little heroine, Celia, is perfectly tragic and ethereal and of course everyone who comes into contact with her absolutely adores her. Her wicked stepmother, Isobel, is evil incarnate, selfish and conniving and a total bitch to poor dear Celia. She never loved Celia's father, only married him for his money, and is livid when he dies and she learns that he tied up all his money in a trust for Celia. She hatches a plan to marry Celia off to one of her cronies, Fulke Withers, so that she can have control of Celia's money. Of course she has red hair (and its mentioned several times that she's slovenly and prances around like a painted whore).

Celia was neglected by her father during his lifetime and ill-treated by Isobel after his death. She has been isolated at Storm Castle for most of her life, only going away to boarding school as a teenager and then returning to be a slave to her baby stepbrother. She's basically Rapunzel, locked in her gloomy, gothic turret tower, waiting for her prince to come rescue her.

Her prince is a dark-haired French fisherman named Paul, whom she meets quite by chance one day. On the second day of their friendship, they declare their undying love for each other and start working on plans to get Celia out of Storm Castle so that they can marry. Isobel, of course, forbids it, which only fuels the young lovers' passion. As this all takes place during 1940, there is the backdrop of WWII and the stormy Cornish coast to add to the drama.

And boy is there plenty of drama: attempted rape, abduction, car crashes, elopement, fire, storms, blackmail, secret war missions, bribery. The romance is thin and simplistic by comparison. It was a bit of a mixture of a Disney princess story, a gothic romance, and a really bad, trashy novel that gives romance a bad reputation. Yet it all, somehow, worked for me on some level. Maybe I was just in the right mood, but I couldn't help rooting for silly Celia to free herself from her evil stepmother's clutches and finally marry her dearly beloved Paul.

I can't say I'd recommend this to anyone, but I don't regret buying it or reading it, and am happy to have it in my vintage romance collection.
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eurohackie | Jul 4, 2019 |
I received Dark, Secret Love from LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review:

First thing that I have to say about this book is that it was dark. It was very well written and drew you in from the first page. The author warns you from the very beginning what the books is. Of course that only made me want to read it more!

The characters that came and went in her life were all interesting. You can see the way that they all formed her into the woman that she is today. The way that the author tells the stories is very interesting....she doesn't expect you to like them, love them, hate them or even understand them.....she just needs to put them down on paper.

Can I say that I loved this book....no. I did enjoy it though.
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DawnGenna | 2 andere besprekingen | Oct 9, 2013 |
I received Dark, Secret Love from LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review:

First thing that I have to say about this book is that it was dark. It was very well written and drew you in from the first page. The author warns you from the very beginning what the books is. Of course that only made me want to read it more!

The characters that came and went in her life were all interesting. You can see the way that they all formed her into the woman that she is today. The way that the author tells the stories is very interesting....she doesn't expect you to like them, love them, hate them or even understand them.....she just needs to put them down on paper.

Can I say that I loved this book....no. I did enjoy it though.
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DawnGenna | 2 andere besprekingen | Oct 9, 2013 |

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Leden
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