Charles Garvice

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Charles Andrew Garvice was born on 24 August 1850 in or around Stepney, England, UK, son of Mira Winter and Andrew John Garvice, a bricklayer. On 1872, he married Elizabeth Jones, and had two sons and six daughters. He got his professional start as a journalist. On 1875, his first novel, "Maurice Durant" was published in serialized form, but when was published as a novel, it did not sell well. He concluded it was too long and too expensive for popular sales - this early experience taught him about the business side of writing. On 1910, according to Arnold Bennett in 1910, he was ‘the most successful novelist in England’. He published novels selling over seven million copies worldwide by 1914, and since 1913 he was selling 1.75 million books annually, a pace which he maintained at least until his death. Despite his enormous success, he was poorly received by literary critics. He published over 150 romance novels, and also signed some of his novels under the female pseudonym of Caroline Hart. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on 21 February 1920 and was in a coma eight days until his death on 1 March 1920.

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Kyra's Fate Or, Love Knows No Bonds
Representative edition published 2007
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Maida
Representative edition published 2007
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The Outcast Of The Family
Representative edition published 2007
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The Woman's Way
Representative edition published 2007
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Adrien Leroy
Representative edition published 2007
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At Love's Cost
Representative edition published 2007
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Only a girl's love
Representative edition published 1980
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Edna's secret marriage
Representative edition published 1905
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My lady pride
Representative edition published 1904
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Kyra's Fate Or, Love Knows No Bonds
Representative edition published 1902
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Maida: A Child of Sorrow
Representative edition published 1901
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Farmer Holt's daughter
Representative edition published 1901
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Love, the tyrant, or, Where her heart led
Representative edition published 1900
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Only one love, or, Who was the heir
Representative edition published 1900
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Staunch of heart, or, Adrien Leroy's sacrifice
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The Story of a Passion
Representative edition published 1897
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The mistress of court regna
Representative edition published 1897
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Just a Girl
Representative edition published 1895
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The Outcast of the Family; Or, A Battle of Love and Pride: A Novel
Representative edition published 1894
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Once in a life
Representative edition published 1892
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Maurice Durant
Representative edition published 1875
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Her heart's desire
Representative edition published 1800
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Stella's fortune, or, Love the conqueror
Representative edition published 1800
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The heart of a maid
Representative edition published 1997
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