Ruby M. Ayres (1881–1955)
Autore di The Second Honeymoon
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Fonte dell'immagine: Ruby M. Ayres, a picture postcard autographed by the author
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Opere di Ruby M. Ayres
Afterglow 5 copie
Come to my wedding 4 copie
The road that bends 3 copie
In the day's march 3 copie
Broken 3 copie
Charity's chosen 2 copie
THE LITTL'ST LOVER 2 copie
The planter of the tree 2 copie
Man made the town 2 copie
The big fellah 2 copie
The man the women loved 1 copia
Young is my love 1 copia
Week-end woman 1 copia
...Big Ben 1 copia
...The little sinner 1 copia
Lovers 1 copia
För kärleks skull 1 copia
L'Attente passionnée 1 copia
L'albero in fiore 1 copia
The moon in the water 1 copia
Our avenue, and other stories 1 copia
The uphill road 1 copia
Spoilt music 1 copia
Overheard 1 copia
Candle light 1 copia
The man without a heart 1 copia
The romance of a rogue 1 copia
So many miles 1 copia
The Matherson marriage 1 copia
Always to-morrow 1 copia
The winds of the world 1 copia
The scar 1 copia
Between you and me 1 copia
Than this world dreams of 1 copia
Feather 1 copia
Compromise 1 copia
Too much together 1 copia
Somebody else 1 copia
From this day forward 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Pocock, Ruby Mildred Ayres
- Altri nomi
- Ayres, Ruby M.
- Data di nascita
- 1881-01-28
- Data di morte
- 1955-11-14
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Weybridge, Surrey, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Harrow, London, England, UK
- Breve biografia
- Ruby Mildred Ayres was born on 28 January 1881 in Watford, Hertfordshire, the third daughter of the marriege formed by Alice (née Whitford) and Charles Pryor Ayres, a London-based architect. In 1909 she married Reginald William Pocock, a insurance broker, and they lived in Harrow until his death in a train accident. As widow without childrens, she moved to her sister's home at Weybridge, Surrey.
She started to write as a girl, and her first story was published in a magazine shortly after her marriage, and in 1912 she published her first novel, Castles in Spain. In September 1915, with her first popular success, Richard Chatterton, V.C. (which sold over 50,000 copies in the first three years), she moved publishing houses to Hodder and Stoughton, where she remained until her death in 1955. She wrote over 150 novels and serialised works. Several of her works became films and she did screenwriting for Society for Sale among others. She corresponded with Douglas Sladen, and also was was possibly an inspiration for the P. G. Wodehouse character Rosie M. Banks. She died on 14 November 1955 in a nursing home in Weybridge, aged 74, of a combination of pneumonia and a cerebral thrombosis. She was cremated four days later at Golders Green in north London.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 85
- Utenti
- 173
- Popolarità
- #123,688
- Voto
- 2.6
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 118
- Preferito da
- 1
Priscilla covered her ears with her hands. "Oh, stop, please stop...don't laugh like that. I've said I'm sorry...I am sorry---I'd do anything to wipe out what's happened, but I can't marry you. I can't..."
And suddenly she was weeping, for herself, for him, and for the tragedy she herself had made.
But now her tears did not touch him; perhaps there was nothing in the world just then that could have melted the hardness around his heart; he was only conscious of a fierce longing to hurt her, to make her suffer as he himself was suffering.
His hands were clenched by his sides so that the knuckles stood out white, and when he spoke there was something brutal in his voice that made her shrink back almost as if she was afraid he would strike her...… (altro)