Denise Chesterton

Born Denise Naomi Klein on 1 February 1897 in London, England. Daughter of Herman Klein, a musical composer, and Kathleen Clarice Groom, a gothic novelist, after their divorce she had a unhappy childhood. In 1918, she married Arthur Robins, a corn broker on the Baltic Exchange, they had three daughters; Eve Louise, Patricia (aka Claire Lorrimer), also a romance novelist, and Anne Eleanor. She divorced in 1938, after she met O'Neill Pearson in Egypt, whom she married in 1939.

Denise worked as a journalist for the D. C. Thomson Press, then became a freelance writer. She published gothic romance novels under her first married name, and under the pseudonyms of Denise Chesterton, Hervey Hamilton, Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, and Julia Kane. In 1960, she co-founded the "Romantic Novelists' Association", and she was its first president until 1966. She died on 1 May 1985 in England.