Claire Lorrimer
| Patricia Robins | |
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| Born | Patricia Denise Robins 1 February 1921 Hove, Sussex, England |
| Died | 3 December 2016 (aged 95) Kent, England |
| Pen name | Patricia Robins, Claire Lorrimer, Susan Patrick |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | romance, gothic |
| Spouse | Mr. Clark |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives |
Denise Robins (mother), Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell (grandmother), Adrian Bernard Klein (uncle) |
| Website | |
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Patricia Denise Robins Clark (1 February 1921 – 4 December 2016) was a British romance novelist, also known as Claire Lorrimer.
Robins came from an artistic family. Her maternal grandfather was Herman Klein, a musician and her maternal grandmother was the writer Kathleen Clarice Groom. Her mother was the popular romance writer Denise Robins, who was the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960–1966). Her maternal uncle was Adrian Cornwell-Clyne, who wrote books on photography and cinematography, another uncle was an artist, as is her daughter.
Robins was born Patricia Denise Robins on 1 February 1921 in Hove, Sussex, England, the daughter of Arthur Robins, a corn broker on the Baltic Exchange and Denise Robins, an author and the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960–1966). She had two sisters, Eve Louise and Anne Eleanor. She was educated at Parents' National Educational Union at Burgess Hill, Sussex.
Her mother encouraged her to write, and at 12 she published her first children's novellas. She worked with a woman's magazine editorial team and published more children's novellas, she went on to write romance novels like her mother. In the 1967 she started to use the pseudonym Claire Lorrimer to write Gothic romances, and later family sagas.
Patricia Clark lived in rural Kent, she had three children, Ian, Nicky and Graeme, and eight grandchildren, Emily, Jemma, Polly, Charlotte, Thomas, Arthur, Max and Tilly.
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