Patricia Robins (1921–2016)
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Patricia Robins was born on February 1, 1921. After being educated in Switzerland and Germany, she became a journalist. Her first job was as a junior editor with Women's Illustrated magazine. During World War II, she joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Because of her language skills, she was mostra altro given the job of tracking incoming enemy aircraft using the new British radar system in the filter room. She used bad weather breaks to write stories for women's magazines to earn money for gasoline so that she and her girlfriends could attend NAAFI dances. She became a romance novelist who wrote 160 novels during her lifetime including Mavreen, Tamarisk, Ortolans, Deception, The Faithful Heart, and You Never Know. She also wrote under the pen names Claire Lorrimer and Susan Patrick. She received an Outstanding Achievement Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She died from complications following a fall earlier in the year on December 4, 2016 at the age of 95. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Patricia Denise Robins Clark writes as Patricia Robins and under the pseudonym of Claire Lorrimer.
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Robins Clark, Patricia Denise
- Altri nomi
- Lorrimer, Claire
Patrick, Susan - Data di nascita
- 1921-02-01
- Data di morte
- 2016-12-04
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- England (birth)
- Luogo di nascita
- Hove, Sussex, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Hove, Sussex, England, UK
Kent, England, UK - Istruzione
- Parents' National Educational Union, Burgess Hill, Sussex, England, UK
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
- Relazioni
- Groom, K. C. (grandmother)
Robins, Denise (mother)
Cornwell-Clyne, Adrian (uncle)
Klein, Herman (grandfather) - Breve biografia
- Patricia Denise Robins was born on February 1, 1921 in Sussex, England, where she also spent her early school years. She was the daugther of Arthur Robins, a corn broker on the Baltic Exchange and of the popular romance author Denise Robins, who after their divorce, remarried with O'Neill Pearson. Patricia has two sisters, Anne and Eve. She comes from an artistic family, numbering musicians, writers and painters. Her maternal grandfather was Herman Klein, a musician and her maternal grandmother was the writer Kathleen Clarice Groom. Her maternal uncle was Adrian Cornwell-Clyne, who wrote books on photography and cinematography, another uncle was an artist, as is her daughter.
Patricia began writing at the age of ten, encouraged by her mother, who was the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960-1966). At 12, she published her first children's novella, The Adventures of the Three Baby Bunnies, ilustrated by Grizel Maxwell (aged 14). Patricia worked on the editorial team of a woman's magazine, her post gave her a unique insight into the world of publishing, but it was during the Second World War that her writing career as children's author became established. She produced a serial for Woman's Illustrated, and although her first love was always children's novellas, she could not find a publisher for her work and turned to romance fiction like her mother. She wrote romantic short stories and light romantic novels as Patricia Robins, publishing her works with Hutchinson, Hurst & Blackett and other publishing houses. In the later 1960s, she decided to use a pseudonym Claire Lorrimer, to write longer novels and family sagas. Her historical novels under this penname are characterised by meticulous detail and feeling for the period, often highlighting the situation of women. She believes that once started, a story writes itself. In 2007, she wrote her autobiography: You Never Know.
During WW2 Robins worked in the filter room of RAF Fighter Command with a top-secret radar system that provided crucial information about German bombing raids. She regretted that the Official Secrets Act prevented her from telling her father the extent of her war work.
Although Patricia has travelled extensively around the world, she has made her home in a four hundred year-old, oak beamed cottage in rural Kent. She enjoys such outdoor activities as gardening, tennis, ski-ing and golf. Her other interests include reading, travel, meeting people and entertaining, but her life is centred mainly around her three children, eight grandchildren, her work and her lovely home and garden. - Nota di disambiguazione
- Patricia Denise Robins Clark writes as Patricia Robins and under the pseudonym of Claire Lorrimer.
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- Opere
- 87
- Utenti
- 329
- Popolarità
- #72,116
- Voto
- 3.0
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 444
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 1
Ortolans concerns the fate of the Calverley family and their home over many centuries. The characters are believable and written sympathetically.