Rona Randall
Rona Randall
Rona Green was born on 16 June 1911 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK. Her education includes: Pitmans College in London, a Diploma in English Literature at Royal Society of Art, Birkenhead School of Art Literary. She married Frederick Walter Shambrook, and had a son. A former actress, before writing, she worked also as journalist and sub-director of publishing company Amalgamated Press, and as assistant editor of George Newnes Ltd. Published since 1942, she started publishing mainly contemporary doctor nurse romances, before writing also gothic romances, and when the market for gothic novels softened, she wrote historical mystery romances. In 1970, Broken Tapestry, her contemporary novel about a broken family, won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. In 1989, she wrote her The Model Wife: Nineteenth Century Style, a book about social constumbres, including clothing. In 1992, she wrote Writing Popular Fiction, a complete guide for writers.
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Faith, Hope and Charity
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Girls in White
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Sister at Sea
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Escribir ficcion (Paidos Manuales De Escritura)
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House Surgeon at Luke's
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Love and Mr. Maynard
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Love and Dr. Maynard
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The Willow Herb
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The Tower Room
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The doctor falls in love
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The Frozen Ceiling
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Writing Popular Fiction (Books for Writers)
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Dragonmede
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Lyonhurst
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Seven Days from Midnight
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The Watchman's Stone
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The Eagle at the Gate
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The Ladies of Hanover Square
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Knight's Keep
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La sobrina del alfarero
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The rival potters
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Lyonhurst
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The model wife, nineteenth-century style
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The model wife, nineteenth-century style
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Faith, Hope and Charity
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Girls in White
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Sister at Sea
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Escribir ficcion (Paidos Manuales De Escritura)
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House Surgeon at Luke's
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Love and Mr. Maynard
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Love and Dr. Maynard
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The Willow Herb
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The Tower Room
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The doctor falls in love
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The Frozen Ceiling
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Writing Popular Fiction (Books for Writers)
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Dragonmede
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Lyonhurst
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Seven Days from Midnight
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The Watchman's Stone
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The Eagle at the Gate
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The Ladies of Hanover Square
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Knight's Keep
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La sobrina del alfarero
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The rival potters
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Lyonhurst
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The model wife, nineteenth-century style
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The model wife, nineteenth-century style