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Ruby M. Ayres
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Ruby Mildred Ayres was born on 28 January 1881 in Watford, Hertfordshire, the third daughter of the marriege formed by Alice (née Whitford) and Charles Pryor Ayres, a London-based architect. In 1909 she married Reginald William Pocock, a insurance broker, and they lived in Harrow until his death in a train accident. As widow without childrens, she moved to her sister's home at Weybridge, Surrey.
She started to write as a girl, and her first story was published in a magazine shortly after her marriage, and in 1912 she published her first novel, Castles in Spain. In September 1915, with her first popular success, Richard Chatterton, V.C. (which sold over 50,000 copies in the first three years), she moved publishing houses to Hodder and Stoughton, where she remained until her death in 1955. She wrote over 150 novels and serialised works. Several of her works became films and she did screenwriting for Society for Sale among others. She corresponded with Douglas Sladen, and also was was possibly an inspiration for the P. G. Wodehouse character Rosie M. Banks. She died on 14 November 1955 in a nursing home in Weybridge, aged 74, of a combination of pneumonia and a cerebral thrombosis. She was cremated four days later at Golders Green in north London.
Full Series List in Order
Richard Chatterton, V. C.
1 - Richard Chatterton, V. C. (Jan-1915)2 - The Winds of the World (Jan-1915)
Book List in Order: 81 titles
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Richard Chatterton, V. C.
- Jan-1915
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Carter was a sort of hub in the wheel of his master's life. Without him the whole structure would probably have fallen to pieces....
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The Black Sheep
- 1917
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Norma Ackroyd is the quintessential English country rose-pretty and rather innocent. But on the day her path crosses with that of the notorious womanizer from London, George Laxton, fate itself seemed determined to shatter her previously sheltered li...
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The Second Honeymoon
- Jan-1918
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Norma Ackroyd is the quintessential English country rose-pretty and rather innocent. But on the day her path crosses with that of the notorious womanizer from London, George Laxton, fate itself seemed determined to shatter her previously sheltered li...
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The Phantom Lover
- Jan-1919
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The Phantom Lover is an delightful Edwardian Romance by Ruby M.Ayres. Have you not often heard of someone being in love with love rather than the person they believed the object of their affections? That was Esther! But she passes through the crisis ...
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A Bachelor Husband
- Jan-1920
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Classic romance fans will swoon over this emotionally engaging story from Ruby M. Ayres. A pair of young lovers who have grown up together decide to get married in the aftermath of a family tragedy. Soon, however, the real world intervenes, and legal...
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The Beggar Man
- Jan-1920
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She was small and slight, with timid, brown eyes and soft, fair hair and a certain daintiness of person that singled her out for attention in spite of the shabbiness of her clothes....
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Ribbons and Laces
- Jan-1920
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After a series of tragedies, young Linda Lovelace finds herself more or less on her own. Fortunately she has her job at a draper's shop and there meets Nelly Sweet. When Nelly takes her to a dance she meets Nelly takes her to a dance she meets Ne...
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Life Steps In
- Jan-1929
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Ana would never fall in love - at least, so she thought. But an invitation to spend the summer with an old school friend changed that idea rapidly. Her friend had a husband. And from the moment they first met, Ana knew that Anthony Hambledon was some...
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One Summer
- Jan-1930
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Gina was a cool young beauty with enough money and sufficient charm to get almost anything she desired. Then she met Jim Shepheard.
It was love at first sight-for Gina at least. And when, some time later, Jim asked her to dine with him, he... -
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Changing Pilots
- 1932
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Contemporary omance novel set in London of a woman trapped in a love triangle with her husband and ex-husband....
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The Man in Her Life
- 1935
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Young Mariette relies on Jerry to take care of her, a father figure she never had. On the eve of marriage, her mother dies suddenly - Enter the father! Alive and with little explanation why he has been away, the wealthy man arrives in a limo to take ...
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One To Live With
- 1937
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Romance novel about a young woman who marries quickly after her mother's death and soon after the honeymoon realizes that she is not going to be happy. Her husband introduces her to a friend and before long he is in love with her. " Every wif...
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Owner Gone Abroad
- 1937
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Contemporary romance novel of a young woman compelled to marry for money after her family fortune is lost....
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Return Journey
- Jan-1938
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Rocky's father was a gambler. When scandal caused his disappearance, Rocky sought forgetfulness and enjoyment on a cruise.
It had been a dull voyage from London; rough in the Channel, colder and rougher in the Bay, and raining hard at ... -
The Tree Drops a Leaf
- Jan-1938
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Could people change in only 28 days?
Ruby M Ayres can always find something to bring out of her treasure house. The Tree Drops a Leaf is a charming romantic tale dealing with charming romantic people.... -
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Still Waters
- 1941
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When attractive Merion Bennett left London for a job as a governess in a small coastal town in the north of England, she was embarking on more than one adventure. She was running away from personal tragedy, seeking forgetfulness in work; and she was ...
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The Day Comes Round
- 1949
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On the morning of her twenty-sixth birthday, Rachel Fanning was conscious of a feeling of indifference and boredom. Her unhappy love affair with Anthony Fisher during the war had left her very little to hope for. But she could hardly have guessed wha...
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The Man From Ceylon
- Jan-1950
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Jessica and Paddy were two very different sisters, in love with the same man...
Of all the best-selling romantic novelists, Ruby M. Ayres has the greatest insight into human devices and desires. Her stories mirror the love, the hope and th... -
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One Woman Too Many
- Jan-1952
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When the last of her brothers and sisters was happily settled, Janet Hayes realised she must sell the rambling old house where they had all grown up together and find a new way of life.A friend put her in touch with young Dr Allan Playfair who lived ...
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