Denise Robins

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Denise Robins (born February 1, 1897 in London as Denise Naomi Klein , † May 1, 1985 in Haywards Heath ) was a British writer. Robins wrote serial romance novels with elements of horror literature ; her very extensive work is classified as trivial literature. Alongside Barbara Cartland , she is considered the most important British author of this genre in the 20th century.

Robins wrote under her first married name (Denise Robins), but also under various pseudonyms: Denise Chesterton, Eve Vaill, Hervey Hamilton, Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray and Julia Kan.

life and work

parents house

Denise Robins was the youngest of the three children of the writer Kathleen Clarice Groom, b. Cornwell and the music professor and journalist Herman Klein . Both brothers, Adrian Cornwell-Clyne and Daryl Klein, later wrote books. From an earlier marriage of the father there was also a half-sister Sibyl Klein, who became an actress.

The parents' marriage was divorced in 1901, the mother married the officer Herbert Berkeley Dealtry. After financial difficulties, the family moved to the USA. In 1908, however, the mother returned with the children to London, where she married a third time in 1918 (Sydney Groom). In 1905 her father had married again.

Writing beginnings

Denise Robins worked for a short time as a journalist for the Dundee Courier in Dundee, Scotland , after finishing school in Staten Island and in 1918 married Arthur Robins, who worked as a broker on the Baltic Exchange . Three daughters were born: Eve Louise, Patricia Denise (* 1921) and Anne Eleanor. In 1918 Denise Robins - under the pseudonym Denise Chesterton - published her first novel, Love's Broken Idol . Her novel What is Love? , which was published as a serialized novel in the London newspaper The Star from December 1925 to February 1926.

Mills & Boon, Nicholson & Watson (1927–1955)

In 1927 Robins met Charles Boon from Mills & Boon , a London publisher for which Elizabeth Carfrae , Sophie Cole and Louise Gerard also wrote. Robins quickly became Mills & Boon's highest paid and most prolific writer. Based on a work by Denise Robins, Roland Pertwee wrote a play Heat Wave , which premiered in 1929 at London's St. James' Theater. In 1931 an American film was made under the title The Road to Singapore, directed by Alfred E. Green , with William Powell , Marian Marsh and Louis Calhern in the leading roles.

In 1935 Robins left Mills & Boon and switched to Nicholson & Watson because there were more favorable conditions there .

Robins' marriage to Arthur Robins broke up, and the couple divorced in 1938. The following year she married the officer O'Neill Pearson, whom she had met on a trip to Egypt.

In 1948 Robins published one of her most popular novels, Khamsin , which tells the story of a young woman who follows her husband, who is called to serve as a soldier in the Suez Canal, and who has to discover that the uncertainty of this new life and the strange land of Egypt and his are there the stifling heat and the high cost of living threaten to destroy their marriage. In addition to romance novels with a modern plot framework, Robins also wrote historical romance novels with success, such as B. Gold for the Gay Masters (1954), an early Bodice Ripper , is the story of an escaped slave who uses her attractiveness to advance her social life and seeks revenge on the villainous man she loves.

Hodder & Stoughton (1956–1985)

In 1956 Robins moved to the London publisher Hodder & Stoughton , where she stayed until the end of her life. 1960–1966 she became the first female president of the newly formed British Romantic Novelist's Association (RNA); its vice-president was Barbara Cartland . In 1965 Robins published her autobiography Stranger Than Fiction . Two years later, the novel House of the Seventh Cross followed , which became one of their best-selling. The novel tells the story of a young woman who loses her memory in a car accident and then finds reason to believe that someone is trying to give her a strange identity for selfish reasons.

In 1974 Robins' last top seller followed, Dark Corridor , in which a young woman loses her fiancé under extremely strange circumstances.

Denise Robins died in 1985 after a long illness in her home south of London.

Publications

Fiction

For different publishers:

  • 1918 Love's Broken Idol (as Denise Chesterton )
  • 1921 - Her Glad New Year
  • 1924 - Sealed Lips
  • 1924 - The Marriage Bond ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1926 - The Forbidden Bride
  • 1926 - The Man Between
  • 1926 - The Passionate Awakening
  • 1927 - Forbidden Love
  • 1927 - The Triumph of the Rat / Gilded Cage ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1929 Honor's Price (as Eve Vaill )
  • 1930 - When a Woman Loves (as Denise Chesterton ) ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1937 - Family Holiday (as Hervey Hamilton ) ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1941 Billie's Love Affairs (as Denise Chesterton )
  • 1942 Christmas Roses (as Denise Chesterton )
  • 1942 What Wendy Did (as Denise Chesterton )
  • 1942 When Love Called (as Denise Chesterton )
  • 1943 - Queen of the Roses (as Denise Chesterton )
  • 1946 - Figs in Frost (as Hervey Hamilton ) ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1953 - The Loves of Lucrezia / Lucrezia (as Francesca Wright ) ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1954 - Gold for the Gay Masters (Fauna Trilogy # 1, as Harriet Gray ) ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • German: They called me fauna (Pabel, 1960)
  • 1956 - Bride of Doom / Bride of Violence (Fauna Trilogy # 2, as Harriet Gray ) ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • German: The Daughter of the Fauna (Dörner, 1958)
  • 1957 - Light the Candles (with Michael Pertwee, one-act act) ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • 1957 - The Flame and the Frost (Fauna Trilogy # 3, as Harriet Gray ) ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • German: Dunkles Blut (Dörner, 1959f)
  • German: Lost Beauty (Dörner, 1960)
  • 1961 - My Lady Destiny (as Harriet Gray ) ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • German: The Countess Roman (Dörner, 1962)
  • 1970 She-Devil: the Story of Jezebel (as Francesca Wright )

For Mills & Boon:

  • 1927 - The Inevitable End
  • 1927 - Jonquil ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1928 - Desire is Blind / Bride of Revenge ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1928 - The Passionate Flame ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1928 - White Jade ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1928 - Women Who Seek ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1929 - Heavy Clay / Heart of Paris
  • German: Her heart was crying but (Two swallows, 1955)
  • 1929 - The Dark Death
  • 1929 - The Enchantress
  • 1929 - The Enduring Flame ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1929 - Love Was a Jest ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1930 - And All Because ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1930 - It Wasn't Love
  • 1930 - Heat Wave. The Story of the Play by Roland Pertwee ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1930 - Love Poems, and others
  • 1930 - The Story of Veronica ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1930 - Swing of Youth ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1931 - Crowns, Pounds, and Guineas
  • 1931 - Fever of Love ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1931 - Lovers of Janine ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1931 - One Night in Ceylon, and others
  • 1931 - Second Best ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1932 - Blaze of Love ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1932 - The Boundary Line ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1932 - For the Sake of Love
  • 1932 - The Secret Hour ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1932 - There Are Limits
  • 1932 - The Wild Bird ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1933 - Gay Defeat ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1933 - Life's a Game ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1933 - Love's Victory
  • 1933 - Men Are Only Human ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1933 - Shatter the Sky ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1933 - Strange Rapture
  • 1934 - Brief Ecstasy ( limited preview in google book search)
  • 1934 - Never Give All
  • 1934 - No Sacrifice
  • 1934 - slave woman ( limited preview in google book search)
  • 1934 - Sweet Love
  • 1935 - All This for Love ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1935 - How Great the Price ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1935 - Ivor Novello's Murder in Mayfair

For Nicholson & Watson:

  • 1934 - The Adventures of the Three Baby Bunnies
  • 1935 - Climb to the Stars
  • 1935 - Life and Love ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1936 - Love Game
  • 1936 - Those Who Love ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1936 - Were I Thy Bride
  • German: Like in another world (Cora, 1976)
  • 1937 - The Woman's Side of It
  • 1937 - Family Holiday
  • 1937 - Kiss of Youth ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1937 - Set Me Free
  • 1937 - The Tiger in Men ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1937 - The Women's Side of It ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1938 - Since We Love ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1938 - Restless Heart
  • 1938 - You Have Chosen ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1939 - Dear Loyalty
  • 1939 - Gypsy Lover / Romany Lover
  • 1939 - I, Too, Have Loved
  • 1939 - Officer's Wife
  • 1939 - What Matters Most
  • 1940 - Forget that I Remember
  • 1940 - Island of Flowers ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1940 - Little We Know
  • 1940 - Sweet Sorrow
  • 1940 - To Love is to Live ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1941 - If This Be Destiny ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1941 - Set the Stars Alight ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1941 - Winged Love ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • 1942 - War Marriage / Let Me Love ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • 1942 - This One Night ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1943 - The Changing Years ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1943 - Daughter Knows Best
  • 1943 - Dust of Dreams ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1943 - Escape to Love
  • 1943 - This Spring of Love ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1943 - War changes Everything
  • 1944 - Give Me Back My Heart
  • 1944 - Never Look Back
  • 1944 - How to Forget
  • 1944 - To the Stars
  • 1945 - Desert Rapture ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • 1945 - Love so Young
  • 1945 - See No Evil
  • 1945 - Three Fairies (children's book)
  • 1946 - All for You ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1946 - Heart's Desire
  • 1946 - separation
  • 1946 - Sea Magic (children's book)
  • 1947 - Forgive Me, My Love
  • 1947 - The Heart of a Rose
  • 1947 - More Than Love ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1947 - Statues of Snow
  • 1948 - Could I Forget ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1948 - The Feast is Finished
  • 1948 - Greater Than All ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1948 - Khamsin ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1948 - Love Me No More! ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1949 - So This Is Love
  • 1949 - The Uncertain Heart ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1949 - To Love Again ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • German: Moments of happiness (Cora, 1979)
  • 1949 - Three Loves
  • 1950 - Awake, My Heart
  • 1950 - Love Hath an Island / The Cyprus Love Affair ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • 1950 - The Madness of Love
  • 1951 - Infatuation ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • 1951 - Leave My Heart Alone
  • 1951 - Second Marriage ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1951 - Something to Love ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1951 - Only My Dreams ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1952 - The Fair Deal
  • 1952 - The Other Love
  • 1952 - Strange Meeting ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1953 - First Long Kiss ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1953 - My True Love
  • 1953 - Once is Enough (as Ashley French ) ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1953 - So This Is Love
  • 1954 - The Bitter Core (as Ashley French )
  • 1954 - The Long Shadow ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1954 - The Unshaken Loyalty ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • German: The sky has never been so blue (Cora, 1978)

For Hodder & Stoughton:

  • 1956 - All That Matters ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1956 - Enchanted Island
  • 1957 - The Noble One ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1957 - The Seagull's Cry ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1958 - Chateau of Flowers
  • 1958 - Untrodden Snow ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1959 - Do Not Go, My Love ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1959 - We Two Together ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1960 - Arrow in the Heart
  • 1960 - The Unlit Fire ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • German: How the stars shine in the sky (Cora, 1977)
  • German: You are dream and reality (Cora, 1977)
  • 1962 - Dark, Secret Love (as Julia Kane ) ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1962 - Put Back the Clock ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • German: I've always dreamed of you (Cora, 1977)
  • German: Love magic in Arabia (Cora, 1979)
  • German: A summer in Rome (Cora, 1977)
  • German: An indefinite longing (Cora, 1979)
  • 1967 - House of the Seventh Cross
  • German: Girls without a past (Möhring, 1955)
  • 1967 - Wait for Tomorrow ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1967 - Betrayal
  • 1968 - House by the Watch Tower
  • 1968 - Laurence, My Love ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1968 - The Price of Folly ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1968 - Two Loves ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1969 - Love and Desire and Hate ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1969 - A Love Like Ours ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1970 - Sweet Cassandra
  • 1971 - The Snow Must Return ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • German: A heart in turmoil (Cora, 1976)
  • 1973 - Other Side of Love
  • 1973 - Twice Have I Loved ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • German: When hearts find each other (Cora, 1978)
  • 1974 - The Dark Corridor ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • 1976 - Come Back Yesterday ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • 1977 - Desire is Blind (as Ashley French )

Autobiography

  • 1965 - Stranger than Fiction: Denise Robins Tells Her Life Story (Hodder & Stoughton)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kathleen Clarice Groom. Retrieved July 16, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Patricia Robins. Retrieved July 16, 2016 . Kathleen Clarice Cornwell ... Small ... Dealtry ... Groom. Retrieved July 16, 2016 .
  3. ^ A b Denise Robins - Biography - Personal Life. Retrieved July 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Denise Robins. Retrieved July 16, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Denise Robins. Retrieved July 16, 2016 . FictionDB: Denise Robins. Retrieved July 16, 2016 . Denise Robins this; romantic author. In: Reading Eagle. May 3, 1985. Retrieved July 18, 2016 . Denise Robins dies at her home. In: News Strait Times. May 4, 1985. Retrieved July 18, 2016 .
  6. ^ Mills & Boon: About Us. Retrieved July 16, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Denise Robins. Retrieved July 16, 2016 .
  8. ↑ 'Heat Wave' by Roland Pertwee. Retrieved July 16, 2016 .
  9. ^ The Road to Singapore. In: IMDB. Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
  10. ^ FictionDB: Denise Robins. Retrieved July 16, 2016 . Prolific English novelist Denise Robins dies. In: AP. May 2, 1985. Retrieved July 18, 2016 .
  11. ^ Romantic Novelist's Association. Retrieved July 18, 2016 (Official Website). Romantic Novelist's Association: Our Story. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 18, 2016 ; Retrieved July 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org
  12. ↑ Denise Robins dies. In: The Glasgow Herald. May 3, 1985; Retrieved July 18, 2016 (obituary).
personal data
SURNAME Robins, Denise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klein, Denise Naomi (maiden name); Pearson, Denise Naomi (2nd married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1985
Place of death Haywards Heath