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Anita Charles
Newest Release
April 12, 1908 ~ December 3, 2013 (105)
Ida Crowe was born on 12 April 1908 in Lewisham, Kent, England, the daughter of a single mother and a unknown father, that rumoured to be a Russian duke, who her mother met at a ball in Greenwich. From narrowly escaping being smothered with a pillow by the nurse who attended her birth, she traveled to Morocco alone as a teenager after suffering a mental breakdown. She began to write while still at school encouraged by her mother, and at 20, she sold her first three novels to George Newnes, where she met her future husband, Hugh Alexander Pollock, married with Enid Blyton, and divorced to Marion Atkinson. Nearly fifteen years after, he divorced, and they married on October 1943. In 1950, her husband had to declare bankruptcy, and she decided to write popular contemporary romances, and after her success, she also wrote historical romances and other type of books. She is also a recognised oil painter and makes model houses.
Book List in Order: 8 titles
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The Black Benedicts
- 1956
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Mallory accepted the job of governess to Raife Benedict's niece and arrives at the Morven Grange, his beautiful house on the romantic Welsh Borderland, she had no idea how much the 'Black Benedicts' -- all of them as dark as gipsies, and strikin...
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One Coin in the Fountain
- 1957
- / Contemporary Romance
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Wishes do not always come true Rose's handsome guardian, Sir Laurence Melville, was jilted at the altar. In love with him herself, Rose silently cheered, but then Sir Laurence immediately left England. Not even the dashing prince Rose later met...
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Autumn Wedding
- Jan-1962
- / Contemporary Romance
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Robert St. Cere’s young half-sister Rosmarin was being rather a handful―and he decided that the solution to the problem was to present the girl with a stepmother, which he did by marrying her companion Fern Gilchrist. But what did Fern feel ab...
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White Rose of Love
- Jan-1963
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Steve arrived in Portugal to stay with her brother she was not prepared to be bowled clean off her feet by the first startlingly handsome man who looked at her in disapproval because she was wearing shorts; and he was a Portuguese who liked -- a...
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The King of the Castle
- Jan-1963
- / Contemporary Romance
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Of the two Warren sisters -- Velda and Sue -- Velda was the beauty, and Sue not precisely the plain one, but not nearly as dazzling as Velda. When their uncle died and left them a chalet in Austria, Velda was not really enthusiastic until she met ...