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As an author for Mills and Boon and later for Harlequin Romance, Dorothy Cork wrote 38 romance novels. She was born in 1918 and is still alive.
Her first book was published in 1965 and the last in 1985. A number of her romances were written in the years when she and her artist husband Maurice travelled in Western Europe (1972 - 1974). She wrote sitting in the back of the camper van - inspired by the settings around her.
There were stories set in Egypt, Papua New Guinea, Morocco and France. However the majority were set in Australia and she travelled extensively to research her backgrounds in Outback Australia. I imagine she drew on her experiences as a young teacher in country Australia (places like Moree) to better capture the atmosphere of the Outback.
In addition to her fiction writing, she wrote a great deal of beautiful poetry. She was encouraged in her poetry writing by her grandfather who was the first graduate of Sydney University to hold a Chair. (He was Professor of Latin.) He encouraged her to "cultivate the muse".
Gerry's father had promised her that one day he would take her to Blackswan Bay, but he died before the dream could become reality. That was one reason why, when an aunt left her a house in Blackswan Bay, Gerry decided to go there, instead of acc...
It was a night for possums when Rae learnt three weeks before her marriage that Ralph was only marrying her to get hold of her station of Tarmaroo. "Three weeks more, Peg," she overheard him say, "and we'll be shot of this rundown dum...
It was a bit daunting, Helen found, when she arrived in Australia to marry Nicky Jamieson only to discover that Nicky himself was abroad on an extended holiday -- with another girl! However, the girl, it appeared was only a lifelong good friend, and...
"It's not you in particular I dislike, Miss Drew. It's your kind in general. Young, sexually attractive, citified girls who come to the Territory without bothering to find what it's all about." Parma had come to New Guinea -- s...
A month's holiday in Bali, all expenses paid! Leni could hardly believe her luck, and lost no time in settling down to enjoy the island paradise. But the original Paradise had its serpent, and so did Bali, in the person of the disapproving Kemp S...
When Burton Alexander invited Christine to his cattle station in the outback, posing as his fiancee, it suited her to agree -- until she fell in love with him, and then learned that he was planning to marry another girl. Just what was Burton playi...
Two weeks after she arrived in Australia from England, Pippa found herself in the middle of the outback on the sheep station of Jounima doing battle with Skye Bannerman. 'Skye's an ogre,' Bron Lightfoot had told Pippa, and after her initial encounter...
Lesley's marriage to Guy Longden had had to be postponed when she was needed to nurse her grandmother. Now she had flown out to join her fiance in Australia, only to learn that her baby niece Jane needed her help. Lesley promised to go, but G...
Natalie Jones had got herself into a rather complicated and mysterious situation in Morocco -- and somehow she persuaded her friend Josian Jones to take her place. This led Josian into a lot of adventures -- with or without the disturbing Raymond ...
"I don't need your company or your protection," Paddy told the autocratic Venn Wildash at their first meeting. But later she was to come to regret those hasty words and to hope against hope that she could gain Venn's love. Hero:...
The dream of Frazer Madigan's life was to find a priceless opal -- and she knew she would find it on Jay Dexter's land. But Jay didn't exactly welcome her. And Frazer had another reason for getting the better of him... Hero: Jay De...
Martyn's carefree life had come to an end, and somehow she had to earn her living. The offer of a job on an outback station seemed to be the answer -- until it turned out not to be a job at all. And the whole situation was too involved with th...
Derry had jumped at the chance of a trip to Egypt because it meant she would be able to see more of the man she had fallen in love with. But it also threw her into the company of the inscrutable Link, Mitchell -- and she didn't know what to ma...
"Girls like you and men like me should steer clear of each other," Jackson Brand told Reya Barberton when she was little more than a schoolgirl...and then he had pushed her firmly out of his life. But now, four years later, she was back at hi...
Eden's hopes for her new life were dashed. She and her autocratic grandfather, George Pomeroy just didn't get along. Tired of being treated like a mindless nonentity, Eden left to establish herself elsewhere. Then she met the equally autoc...
The advertisement for a job as cook/travelling companion in the Australian outback was just what Saffi Quest wanted as a means of escaping from a hopeless love affair, and she was very relieved when Math Reyburn gave her the job. But things didn'...
"You've always been secure and pampered" Jarrett Buchan's words stung. He believed Nicky was just like his spoiled sister. Nicky thought of the foster home in which she'd spent her early years -- the fears and the loneliness...
Farrell just wanted to live her own life Yet that seemed to be the one thing she couldn't do. She had gone home to her father in northwest Australia to sort out her life. But her stepmother soon made her aware that she wasn't wanted there....
French and English -- they just don't mix! Her grandmother had instilled that misconception in Brianna's mind. So it was no wonder that the attempted reconciliation with her sister and French mother proved such a disaster. That was year...
"Is the outback life too tough for you?" Dev Deveraux's tone was deliberately taunting. "I guess namby-pamby little English girls don't belong in my country," he drawled. Rennie's eyes sparked with anger. She knew he...
"Do you believe in love?" she asked. Steve's eyes narrowed. "I believe in love about as much as I believe in Santa Claus. It's a lot of make-believe and so is marriage. It's all a game." "Then it's a game I d...
No one wanted to marry Edie -- they wanted other things, but not marriage! And Edie was just not 'that kind of a girl'. So it was in a fit of pique that she answered an advert: 'cattleman seeks wife, preferably under thirty-five' -...
Her mother's marriage to Walter Marshall had certainly made a difference to her own life, Fay thought ruefully; it was very nice for her mother to be happy again, and so comfortably off - but did she have to leave Fay in the care of the disagreeable ...
Dale had come back looking for comfort But the secure world of Jackalass, the outback station she'd known as a girl, had changed. Instead of Aunt Beth to help her recover from her disastrous love affair, she found Trelawney Saber, an arroga...
Mike was making her pay for her lies Amy Martin arrived in Queensland, full of confidence, all set to marry her fiance, Clifford. She found him strangely unwelcoming -- and sadly had to face the fact that he was having second thoughts about th...
FORBIDDEN LOVE Penniless, a burden to her relatives, Grace Lawson had rashly married a virtual stranger to escape an intolerable home situation. She looked forward to making a new life in the Australian Outback. Soon she learned that she had be...
HE THOUGHT HER A SELFISH SPENDTHRIFT. When Caroline Adams secretly shouldered her cousin's debt, she certainly didn't expect that it would entail marrying rich and cynical Steve Revellion. Not willing to let her cousin down, Caroline agree...
CAUGHT IN HER OWN TRAP! When Merlyn Somers flew to Hong Kong under false pretenses, she never dreamed that she would be met by darkly handsome Sullivan Ashe. Nor did she ever imagine that he would accompany her to Australia and to the Outback he l...
HOW COULD SHE DENY HIM? On a remote sheep station in southern Australia Alida Beech found herself unexpectedly in the employ of the only man she had ever loved. She had first met him four years earlier when she had been an innocent seventeen -- an...
SHE COULDN'T RUN FROM LOVE. When Aidan Elliot's wedding plans dissolved into disappointment, she jumped at the chance to escape by accepting a position as secretary to famed author Guy Desailley on his tropical island retreat. It seemed p...
IT WAS A PROPOSITION SHE COULDN'T REFUSE. What could have possessed Darryn to accept Eyre Madison's outrageous proposal? She was to pose as Eyre's fiancee in return for the opportunity to photograph his ranch in the Australian outback...
THE BUSINESS OF LOVE When Ferris returned home to claim the winery her father had left her, she knew she would have to face Martin Varenay again and, even after three years, his rejection still burned in her heart. Instead of Martin, though, it w...
A WILDERNESS AFFAIR Driving across Australia's outback with Don Harris, owner of Safari Tours, Ashleigh Stevens dreamed of her new life in Darwin as one of his guides. But halfway through the perilous journey, when Don became ill and had to be...
The Book of Love To Royce Argent, "love" was a word that belonged in the children's books she wrote and illustrated -- definitely not in her life. So when a dear old friend put his lavish London home at her disposal, Royce rolled up her sleeves a...
MARRIAGE ON HER MIND Disenchanted with the hectic pace of her life, Noeline decided that a quiet vacation was the perfect cure. But Beaudesert turned out to be more than a sleepy sheep station. Sprawled along the sun-baked plains of Australia, this p...
Matila Segal was in North-West Australia to see how her dear Uncle Jerry was getting on -- and found out that her uncle was far from well and that the one thing he wanted was to see her safely married, if possible to Dirk Reasoner. But Matty knew som...