Fotografía de autor

Susan Barrie (1908–2013)

Autor de A Rose for Danger

135 Obras 493 Miembros 6 Reseñas 1 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

Ida Pollock was born in London, England in 1908. She had her first stories published while she was in her teens, and went on to write numerous books under almost a dozen pseudonyms. She took a solo trip to Morocco while a teenager and worked in London during the Blitz. She took up writing intensely mostrar más to support her family after her husband went bankrupt in 1950. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 120 books under Susan Barrie, Rose Burghley, Marguerite Bell and others. Her works included White Heat, The Devil's Daughter, The Sweet Surrender, and the memoir Starlight. She died on December 3, 2013 at the age of 105. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Nota de desambiguación:

(eng) Ida Crowe Pollock writes as her married name Ida Pollock and under the pseudonyms Joan M. Allen, Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler and Marguerite Bell.

Series

Obras de Susan Barrie

A Rose for Danger (1977) 17 copias
The Devil's Daughter (1978)algunas ediciones16 copias
One Coin in the Fountain (1957) 16 copias
Moon over Africa (1955) 15 copias
Haven of the Heart (1956) 9 copias
Master of Hearts (1959) 9 copias
Bride in Waiting (1961) 8 copias
Meet Me in Istanbul (1958) 8 copias
White Rose of Love (1963) 8 copias
Pathway of Roses (1962) 8 copias
The Garden of Don José (1964) 8 copias
Sunshine Yellow (1961) 8 copias
Nile Dusk (1972) 7 copias
Moon at the Full (1961) 7 copias
Island in the Dawn (1958) 7 copias
Star Creek (1965) 7 copias
Flower for a Bride (1957) 6 copias
Enchanted Autumn (1959) 6 copias
Accidental Bride (1967) 6 copias
Flight to the Stars (1959) 6 copias
Escape to Happiness (1960) 6 copias
Bride of Alaine (1966) 5 copias
The House of the Laird (1956) 5 copias
Man of Destiny (1965) 5 copias
Love Is for Ever (1957) 5 copias
The Keys of the Castle (1959) 5 copias
The Black Benedicts (1956) 5 copias
Mountain of Dreams (1958) 5 copias
Desert Gold (1968) 5 copias
Man from the Sea (1968) 5 copias
Beloved Enemies (1967) 5 copias
The Young Nightingales (1967) 5 copias
Carpet of Dreams (1955) 5 copias
Master of Melincourt (1966) 5 copias
The Quiet Heart (1966) 5 copias
So Dear to My Heart (1956) 5 copias
The Stars of San Cecilio (1958) 5 copias
Desert Doorway (1956) 4 copias
Highland Mist (1962) 4 copias
The Sweet Surrender (1959) 4 copias
Wild Sonata (1968) 4 copias
Return to Tremarth (1969) 4 copias
Mistress of Brown Furrows (1952) 4 copias
Cuckoo in the Night (1966) 4 copias
Air Ticket (1957) 4 copias
The King of the Castle (1963) 3 copias
The Afterglow (1966) 3 copias
Mountain Magic (1964) 3 copias
Marry a Stranger (1954) 3 copias
Royal Purple (1962) 3 copias
Autumn Wedding (1962) 3 copias
And Be Thy Love (1958) 3 copias
The Wings of the Morning (1960) 3 copias
The Bay of Moonlight (1968) 3 copias
Rose in the Bud (1966) 3 copias
White heat (1966) 3 copias
The Gates of Dawn (1954) 3 copias
Enemy Lover (1964) 3 copias
The Gardenia Tree (1965) 3 copias
The Chateau of Fire (1961) 2 copias
The Man Who Came Back (1967) 2 copias
Sweet Barbary (1957) 2 copias
City of Palms (1957) 2 copias
Heart Specialist (1958) 2 copias
The Dawning Splendour (1963) 2 copias
Starlight: A Memoir (2009) 2 copias
The Marriage Wheel (1968) 2 copias
House of Sand (1986) 2 copias
No Just Cause (1965) 2 copias
Love in High Places (1960) 2 copias
Sea Change (2002) 2 copias
A Distant Drum (2005) 2 copias
Love in the afternoon (1959) 2 copias
Bride by Arrangement (1960) 2 copias
The Secret Heart (1956) 2 copias
A Moment in Paris (1961) 2 copias
A Quality of Magic (1966) 2 copias
Castle Thunderbird (1965) 2 copias
Sir Faintheart (2015) 2 copias
A Case of Heart Trouble (1963) 2 copias
Four Roads to Windrush (1957) 2 copias
Country Air (1970) 1 copia
The Gentle Masquerade (1964) 1 copia
Igor and Mom (1990) 1 copia
Her Chinese Captor (1935) 1 copia
Lady in Danger (1967) 1 copia
Summer Conspiracy (1969) 1 copia
The Uneasy Alliance (1965) 1 copia
A Quest for Lovers (1963) 1 copia
The Quiet Heart 51128 (1967) 1 copia
Interlude in Snow (1964) 1 copia
Night of Stars (1975) 1 copia
Bride by Auction (1989) 1 copia
Folly of the Heart (1967) 1 copia
My Heart at Your Feet (1957) 1 copia
Interlude for Love (1958) 1 copia
Journey in the Dark (1962) 1 copia
Indian Love (1935) 1 copia

Etiquetado

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Nombre legal
Crowe Pollock, Ida
Otros nombres
Allen, Joan M.
Barrie, Susan
Kent, Pamela
Ives, Averil
Charles, Anita
Rowan, Barbara (mostrar todos 11)
Beauford, Jane
Burghley, Rose
Whistler, Mary
Pollock, Ida
Bell, Margerite
Fecha de nacimiento
1908-04-12
Fecha de fallecimiento
2013-12-03
Género
female
Nacionalidad
UK
Lugar de nacimiento
Lewisham, Kent, England, UK
Lugares de residencia
Malta
Cornwall, England, UK
Ocupaciones
romance novelist
short story writer
historical novelist
autobiographer
suspense author
painter
Relaciones
Pollock, Rosemary (daughter)
Pollock, Hugh, (spouse)
Biografía breve
Susan Barrie was one of the many pen names of Ida Pollock, née Crowe, who was born in Lewisham in southeast London, England. Her parents’ marriage fell apart shortly after she was born, and her mother worked as a housekeeper for relatives. Ida began writing at a young age and at 14, published her first novella, a thriller called The Towers of Ravenshaunt. By age 20, she had published several stories in major magazines and in book form. She became a full-time writer in the 1930s. Over the nine decades of her career, she wrote prolifically and sold millions of copies of romance novels with titles such as Indian Love (1935), The Sweet Surrender (1959) and Master of Melincourt (1966). Being in print with many titles of different genres at different publishers, she used multiple pseudonyms; these included Joan M. Allen, Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler and Marguerite Bell. As a young woman, she had a long-term affair with Lt-Col. Hugh Pollock, a writer and editor who was 20 years her senior and married to Enid Blyton. They were finally married in 1943 and had a daughter the following year, Rosemary Pollock, who also became a romance writer. They lived in Ireland, France, Italy, Malta and Switzerland. In 1964, she published her first historical novel, The Gentle Masquerade, under her married name Ida Pollock. She also wrote suspense novels and an autobiography, Starlight (2009). In 1960, she was a founding member of the Romantic Novelists' Association. In her 90s, she became a painter and built scale miniatures of Georgian and Tudor buildings.
Aviso de desambiguación
Ida Crowe Pollock writes as her married name Ida Pollock and under the pseudonyms Joan M. Allen, Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler and Marguerite Bell.

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Written under the pen name of Pamela Kent (and that's how it is listed in the Guardian's list).

I would have adored this book in my adolescence when I was devouring romance novels! I still found it a pleasant read - nice clean romance. However, the plot was predictable (maybe because of all that teenage reading) and the secondary characters quite two dimensional.

Read as a Kindle book (from KU)
 
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leslie.98 | otra reseña | Jun 27, 2023 |
What is this Mills and Boon romance doing on the Guardian 1000 list? I had to find out.

This is a fifties period piece. The blonde heroine is girlish and naive. She wears simple dresses in pastel colours, and little white hats. She doesn't drink. The wicked widow has dark hair, wears purple, is sophisticated, and drinks cocktails. She is so evil that her husband, the best shot in South Africa, committed suicide by lion. She tries to separate our heroine and our hero, a dark, sardonic, sophisticated, older man. Sophistication, an asset in a man, is a disaster in a woman!

I have no idea how this book made it onto the Guardian 1000 list. I quite enjoyed it, but it is tripe.
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½
 
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pamelad | otra reseña | Apr 14, 2016 |
 
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Condorena | Apr 2, 2013 |
Freshly out of school, 18-year-old Carol Inglis was Timothy Carrington's unofficial ward. For that reason, Timothy thought he can better support Carol if they were to marry instead.

I'm not a fan of May and December stories but that wasn't the problem I had with this book. No, I had issue with the way Carol was always described as being young and youthful, very shy, naive and child-like. She wore a lot of virginal white and was coddled and indulged. I kept seeing a 10-year-old in my mind and thinking how creepy an almost 40-year-old was her love interest! Carol was a Mary Sue-like character because she was always described as pretty and that everyone loved her (save for two jealous women in Timothy's life). She, and all the characters for the matter, lacked any personality.

Actually, truth be told, I kept imagining Carol a well cared-for, prized, life-sized doll because she was often being carried around and handled with gentle fingers. This of course goes back to the days when females were thought of as beautiful objects of limited use. This was after all an older book. (But it still made my eyes roll to no end.)

I got this book because I love the cover. Incidentally, this cover does not match the description of Carol, whom was fair-haired. I always thought the covers on the older Harlequin romances actually matched with the stories, but I guess I was wrong. Ha!
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starlightgenie | Jul 2, 2011 |

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Obras
135
Miembros
493
Popularidad
#50,127
Valoración
3.0
Reseñas
6
ISBNs
234
Idiomas
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