Denise Robins
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| Born | Denise Naomi Klein 1 February 1897 London, England1 |
| Died | 1 May 1985 (aged 88) England |
| Pen name | Denise Chesterton, Eve Vaill, Anne Llewellyn, Denise Robins, Hervey Hamilton, Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Julia Kane |
| Occupation | Journalist, Novelist |
| Nationality | English |
| Citizenship | British |
| Period | 1918–1985 |
| Genre | Gothic romance, Romantic novelist |
| Spouse | (1) Arthur Robins (1918–1938) (2) O'Neill Pearson (1939-19??) |
| Children | (1) Eve Louise Robins (2) Patricia Robins (a.k.a. Claire Lorrimer) (3) Anne Eleanor Robins |
| Relatives |
Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell (mother), Herman Klein (father) Adrian Klein (brother) Daryl Klein (brother) |
Denise Robins (née Denise Naomi Klein; 1 February 1897 - 1 May 1985) was a prolific English romantic novelist and the first President of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960–1966). She wrote under her first married name and under the pen-names: Denise Chesterton, Eve Vaill, 'Anne Llewellyn', Hervey Hamilton, Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray and Julia Kane, producing short stories, plays, and about 170 Gothic romance novels. In 1965, Robins published her autobiography, Stranger Than Fiction. At the time of her death in 1985, Robins's books had been translated into fifteen languages and had sold more than one hundred million copies. In 1984, they were borrowed more than one and a half million times from British libraries.
She was the daughter of the novelist Kathleen Clarice Groom, and mother of romance novelist Patricia Robins. Some other members of her family are well-known artists.
Robins was born Denise Naomi Klein on 1 February 1897 in London, England, the daughter of Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell, who was also a prolific author who wrote under several names, and of her first husband, Herman Klein, who was a professor of music and journalist. Of Russian Jewish ancestry, he had been born in Norwich in 1856. Her mother Kathleen Clarice had been born in Melbourne, Australia, on 11 March 1872 and was the daughter of George Cornwell and his wife Jemima Ridpath, married in 1850.George Cornwell was a railway guard who became a successful gold prospector in Australia, operating several mines, and a notable building contractor. His eldest daughter, Alice Cornwell, born 1852, was spectacularly rich by the 1890s, returning to England and buying the Sunday Times newspaper.
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