
Denise Robins
(Naomi Klein)(Daughter of Kit Dealtry, Mother of Patricia Robins)
aka
Denise Chesterton, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Hervey Hamilton, Julia Kane, Francesca Wright
About Denise Robins
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 teacherof 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). Duringher parents marriage, her mother began an affair with a young Worcestershire Regiment officer, Herbert Arthur Berkeley Dealtry (b. 1878). When her fatherbecame 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 sameyear her father remarried with Helene Fox, a Christian Science practitioner of Boston, Massachusetts.
As Kit Dealtry, her mother began topublish her own writings, first short stories in magazines an later gothic novels. Years later, and single again her mother returned to London. In1918, and remarried for a third time with Sydney H. Groom, andstarted to sign her novels as C. Groom, Mrs Sydney Groom, Kathleen ClariceGroom and Clarice Groom. After Naomi left school, she decided follow in hermother's footsteps, and to publish her writings. She went to work as ajournalist 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 laterbecame her second husband. She was the mother of three daughters, Patricia Robins (also know as Claire Lorrimer) who became another best-sellingromance 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. In1927, 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 sameyear. 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 delvedso 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 1May 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.
As Kit Dealtry, her mother began topublish her own writings, first short stories in magazines an later gothic novels. Years later, and single again her mother returned to London. In1918, and remarried for a third time with Sydney H. Groom, andstarted to sign her novels as C. Groom, Mrs Sydney Groom, Kathleen ClariceGroom and Clarice Groom. After Naomi left school, she decided follow in hermother's footsteps, and to publish her writings. She went to work as ajournalist 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 laterbecame her second husband. She was the mother of three daughters, Patricia Robins (also know as Claire Lorrimer) who became another best-sellingromance 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. In1927, 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 sameyear. 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 delvedso 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 1May 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.
Novels
Sealed Lips (1924)
The Marriage Bond (1924)
Jonquil (1927)
The Triumph of the Rat (1927)
The Inevitable End (1927)
Desire Is Blind (1928)
aka Bride of Revenge
Women Who Seek (1928)
White Jade (1928)
The Passionate Flame (1928)
The Dark Death (1929)
Heavy Clay (1929)
The Enduring Flame (1929)
Love Was a Jest (1929)
And All Because (1930)
Swing of Youth (1930)
Crowns, Pounds, and Guineas (1931)
Fever of Love (1931)
Lovers of Janine (1931)
Second Best (1931)
Blaze of Love (1932)
The Secret Hour (1932)
The Boundary Line (1932)
Gay Defeat (1933)
Strange Rapture (1933)
Men Are Only Human (1933)
Shatter the Sky (1933)
Never Give All (1934)
Slave Woman (1934)
Brief Ecstasy (1934)
Sweet Love (1934)
Climb to the Stars (1935)
How Great the Price (1935)
Life and Love (1935)
Murder in Mayfair (1935)
All This for Love (1935)
Love Game (1936)
Were I thy bride (1936)
Those Who Love (1936)
Set Me Free (1937)
The Tiger in Men (1937)
Kiss of Youth (1937)
Since We Love (1938)
The Restless Heart (1938)
You Have Chosen (1938)
Gypsy Lover (1939)
I, Too, Have Loved (1939)
Dear Loyalty (1939)
Little We Know (1940)
To Love Is to Live (1940)
Set the Stars Alight (1940)
Island of Flowers (1940)
Sweet Sorrow (1940)
If This Be Destiny (1941)
Winged Love (1941)
War Marriage (1942)
What Matters Most (1942)
This One Night (1942)
Daughter Knows Best (1943)
War changes Everything (1943)
The Changing Years (1943)
Dust of Dreams (1943)
Escape to Love (1943)
This Spring of Love (1943)
Give Me Back My Heart (1944)
How to Forget (1944)
Never Look Back (1944)
Love so Young (1945)
Desert Rapture (1945)
Separation (1946)
The Story of Veronica (1946)
All for You (1946)
Forgive Me, My Love (1947)
More Than Love (1947)
Could I Forget (1948)
The Feast is Finished (1948)
Greater Than All (1948)
Khamsin (1948)
Love Me No More (1948)
To Love Again (1949)
The Uncertain Heart (1949)
Love Hath an Island (1950)
The Madness of Love (1950)
Only My Dreams (1951)
Second Marriage (1951)
Heart of Paris (1951)
Infatuation (1951)
Something to Love (1951)
Strange Meeting (1952)
The Other Love (1952)
The First Long Kiss (1953)
My True Love (1953)
The Long Shadow (1954)
The Unshaken Loyalty (1954)
Venetian Rhapsody (1954)
Bitter-Sweet (1955)
All That Matters (1956)
Loving and Giving (1956)
The Enchanted Island (1956)
Bride of Violence (1957)
The Noble One (1957)
The Seagull's Cry (1957)
Chateau of Flowers (1958)
The Untrodden Snow (1958)
We Two Together (1959)
Do Not Go, My Love (1959)
Arrow in the Heart (1960)
The Unlit Fire (1960)
I Should Have Known (1961)
A Promise is for Ever (1961)
Put Back the Clock (1962)
Mad Is the Heart (1963)
Nightingale's Song (1963)
Reputation (1963)
Meet Me in Monte Carlo (1964)
Moment of Love (1964)
Once Is Enough (1965)
The Strong Heart (1965)
The Crash (1966)
Lightning Strikes Twice (1966)
Love Is Enough (1966)
O Love! O Fire! (1966)
House of the Seventh Cross (1967)
Wait for Tomorrow (1967)
Forbidden (1967)
When a Woman Loves (1968)
House By the Watch Tower (1968)
Laurence, My Love (1968)
The Price of Folly (1968)
Two Loves (1968)
A Love Like Ours (1969)
Love and Desire and Hate (1969)
Sweet Cassandra (1970)
Under the Sky (1970)
The Snow Must Return (1972)
The Other Side of Love (1973)
Twice Have I Loved (1973)
The Wild Bird (1974)
Dark Corridor (1974)
Australian Opal Safari (1974)
The Cyprus Love Affair (1974)
Betrayal (1976)
It Wasn't Love (1976)
Come Back, Yesterday (1976)
Family Holiday (1978)
Fauna (1978)
Let Me Love (1979)
Love's Triumph (1983)
Princess Passes (1983)
For the Sake of Love (1985)
Masquerade of Love (1985)
Life's a Game (1985)
The Enchantress (1987)
The Woman's Side of It (1988)
The Gilded Cage (1998)
Illusion of Love (2000)
Romany Lover (2011)
The Marriage Bond (1924)
Jonquil (1927)
The Triumph of the Rat (1927)
The Inevitable End (1927)
Desire Is Blind (1928)
aka Bride of Revenge
Women Who Seek (1928)
White Jade (1928)
The Passionate Flame (1928)
The Dark Death (1929)
Heavy Clay (1929)
The Enduring Flame (1929)
Love Was a Jest (1929)
And All Because (1930)
Swing of Youth (1930)
Crowns, Pounds, and Guineas (1931)
Fever of Love (1931)
Lovers of Janine (1931)
Second Best (1931)
Blaze of Love (1932)
The Secret Hour (1932)
The Boundary Line (1932)
Gay Defeat (1933)
Strange Rapture (1933)
Men Are Only Human (1933)
Shatter the Sky (1933)
Never Give All (1934)
Slave Woman (1934)
Brief Ecstasy (1934)
Sweet Love (1934)
Climb to the Stars (1935)
How Great the Price (1935)
Life and Love (1935)
Murder in Mayfair (1935)
All This for Love (1935)
Love Game (1936)
Were I thy bride (1936)
Those Who Love (1936)
Set Me Free (1937)
The Tiger in Men (1937)
Kiss of Youth (1937)
Since We Love (1938)
The Restless Heart (1938)
You Have Chosen (1938)
Gypsy Lover (1939)
I, Too, Have Loved (1939)
Dear Loyalty (1939)
Little We Know (1940)
To Love Is to Live (1940)
Set the Stars Alight (1940)
Island of Flowers (1940)
Sweet Sorrow (1940)
If This Be Destiny (1941)
Winged Love (1941)
War Marriage (1942)
What Matters Most (1942)
This One Night (1942)
Daughter Knows Best (1943)
War changes Everything (1943)
The Changing Years (1943)
Dust of Dreams (1943)
Escape to Love (1943)
This Spring of Love (1943)
Give Me Back My Heart (1944)
How to Forget (1944)
Never Look Back (1944)
Love so Young (1945)
Desert Rapture (1945)
Separation (1946)
The Story of Veronica (1946)
All for You (1946)
Forgive Me, My Love (1947)
More Than Love (1947)
Could I Forget (1948)
The Feast is Finished (1948)
Greater Than All (1948)
Khamsin (1948)
Love Me No More (1948)
To Love Again (1949)
The Uncertain Heart (1949)
Love Hath an Island (1950)
The Madness of Love (1950)
Only My Dreams (1951)
Second Marriage (1951)
Heart of Paris (1951)
Infatuation (1951)
Something to Love (1951)
Strange Meeting (1952)
The Other Love (1952)
The First Long Kiss (1953)
My True Love (1953)
The Long Shadow (1954)
The Unshaken Loyalty (1954)
Venetian Rhapsody (1954)
Bitter-Sweet (1955)
All That Matters (1956)
Loving and Giving (1956)
The Enchanted Island (1956)
Bride of Violence (1957)
The Noble One (1957)
The Seagull's Cry (1957)
Chateau of Flowers (1958)
The Untrodden Snow (1958)
We Two Together (1959)
Do Not Go, My Love (1959)
Arrow in the Heart (1960)
The Unlit Fire (1960)
I Should Have Known (1961)
A Promise is for Ever (1961)
Put Back the Clock (1962)
Mad Is the Heart (1963)
Nightingale's Song (1963)
Reputation (1963)
Meet Me in Monte Carlo (1964)
Moment of Love (1964)
Once Is Enough (1965)
The Strong Heart (1965)
The Crash (1966)
Lightning Strikes Twice (1966)
Love Is Enough (1966)
O Love! O Fire! (1966)
House of the Seventh Cross (1967)
Wait for Tomorrow (1967)
Forbidden (1967)
When a Woman Loves (1968)
House By the Watch Tower (1968)
Laurence, My Love (1968)
The Price of Folly (1968)
Two Loves (1968)
A Love Like Ours (1969)
Love and Desire and Hate (1969)
Sweet Cassandra (1970)
Under the Sky (1970)
The Snow Must Return (1972)
The Other Side of Love (1973)
Twice Have I Loved (1973)
The Wild Bird (1974)
Dark Corridor (1974)
Australian Opal Safari (1974)
The Cyprus Love Affair (1974)
Betrayal (1976)
It Wasn't Love (1976)
Come Back, Yesterday (1976)
Family Holiday (1978)
Fauna (1978)
Let Me Love (1979)
Love's Triumph (1983)
Princess Passes (1983)
For the Sake of Love (1985)
Masquerade of Love (1985)
Life's a Game (1985)
The Enchantress (1987)
The Woman's Side of It (1988)
The Gilded Cage (1998)
Illusion of Love (2000)
Romany Lover (2011)
Omnibus
Love Poems, and others (1930)
One Night in Ceylon, and others (1931)
Love, Volume I (1979)
Love, Volume II (1980)
Love, Volume III (1980)
Love, Volume IV (1980)
Love, Volume V (1980)
Love, Volume VI (1980)
Love, Volume VII (1980)
Love, Volume VIII (1980)
Love, Volume IX (1980)
Love, Volume X (1980)
One Night in Ceylon, and others (1931)
Love, Volume I (1979)
Love, Volume II (1980)
Love, Volume III (1980)
Love, Volume IV (1980)
Love, Volume V (1980)
Love, Volume VI (1980)
Love, Volume VII (1980)
Love, Volume VIII (1980)
Love, Volume IX (1980)
Love, Volume X (1980)
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