Sylvia Thorpe

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1950
  • Latest Book:
    January 1983
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About the Author

June Sylvia Thimblethorpe was born in 1926 in London, England, UK. Educated in London at a school in Brondesbury, Kilburn High School for Girls, Slade School of Fine Arts, and University College. She worked as secretary from 1949 to 1952 and later she worked as school teacher. As Sylvia Thorpe, she wrote over 25 historical romance novels from 1950 to 1983. Her novel "The Scapegrace" (1971) won the Elizabeth Goudge Historical Award.

Sylvia was the third elected Chairman (1965-1967) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and was named a Honor Life Member of the organization. She is now a trustee for the Goodrich Village Hall Trust. Goodrich is a village, in south Herefordshire which is very close to Gloucestershire and the Forest of Dean situated near the River Wye and is famous for its old red sandstone Norman and medieval castle.

Full Series List in Order

Conyngton

1 - Fair Shine the Day (Jan-1964)
2 - Spring Will Come Again (1965)
3 - The Changing Tide (1967)
4 - A Flash of Scarlet (Jan-1976)
5 - The Witches of Conyngton (Oct-1976)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • The Scandalous Lady Robin

    "WHAT IS TO BE DONE?" THE EARL OF VERYAN ASKED HEAVILY. "ROBIN HAS BEEN A BOY FOR MORE THAN TWELVE YEARS. I FEAR SHE WILL NOT TAKE KINDLY TO THE NOTION OF BECOMING A GIRL AGAIN." People were beginning to talk about Lady Robin's tomboyish behavior....

  • The Sword and the Shadow

    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    THE LADY AND THE PIRATE Young and headstrong, Lady Frances found it hard to obey Captain Crispin Barbican. She simply was not used to being ordered around--by anyone. But the dashing and gallant buccaneer had sworn to protect her against her cousi...

  • Beggar on Horseback

    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Lovely Dorothea Stratton's life had always been sheltered and serene. Then her brother gambled away the entire family fortune, and she knew things would never be the same again. She assumed that she would remain quietly at Gallows Farm, never bein...

  • Smugglers' Moon // Strangers on the Moor

    A strange summons to a dark mansion on the English coast forces a young girl into an evil conspiracy and a perilous love MULLION HALL The name of the dark and decaying old mansion was spoken only in dread whispers. And yet it was to this isola...

  • The Golden Panther

    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    SECRET LOVER For fifteen years beautiful young Damaris Brandon believed the infamous buccaneer, Captain Lucifer, to be her brother. But the Captain, known to his intimates as Kit Brandon, has chosen to shield her from the truth. Kit has never dare...

  • Rogues' Covenant

    • / Traditional Regency
    • Buy Buy

    Joanna had never before known anyone like Philip Rigby. The handsome stranger from Barbados charmed the entire neighborhood, including the lovely heiress to the Selbourne fortune. It did occur to Joanna that she knew very little about him. But she...

  • Sword of Vengeance

    • / Traditional Regency
    • Buy Buy

    Verity Halland had been kidnapped. Escape seemed impossible. But she had reckoned without Dominic Fane. Dominic was a desperate man. Yet he had been attracted by Verity's innocence and beauty. He had had second thoughts about the kidnapping. Now f...

  • Captain Gallant

    She should have been rich and carefree. Instead, Christina Westlake was poor and courageous. An unscrupulous uncle had cheated her out of her legacy -- the huge family estate, Coombe Royal. But Christina was a young woman of daring. She had a plan to...

  • Beloved Rebel

    • / Traditional Regency
    • Buy Buy

    SHE WAS HIS WIFE IN NAME ONLY. WOULD SHE EVER BE MORE? This beguiling and richly moving novel of a beautiful child bride whose dashing and aristocratic husband becomes a fugitive from justice unfolds a stirring tale of romance, intrigue and dange...



  • The Devil's Bondman

    Coventry - 32

    To Felicia, the man who had rescued her was an enigma--frightening and fascinating, a pirate and yet a gentleman. They called him Valentine, and he was a dangerous buccaneer. He was also a fugitive who seemed to flirt with death. But death passed ...

  • The House at Bell Orchard

    Coventry - 9

    She was beautiful, young, and an heiress. Suddenly, she became an orphan - and the ruthless Colonel Fenshawe and his despicable family were offering her sanctuary. The Colonel cared nothing for Charmian, but he intended to force her into a marriage w...

  • The Highwayman

    • / Traditional Regency
    • Buy Buy

    A RECKLESS BEAUTY SWEPT INTO A PASSIONATE -- AND DANGEROUS -- INTRIGUE DANGEROUS BETROTHAL Those who had to cross the desolate flatlands of Hounslow Heath knew well the name of the infamous Colonel Fury. Scoundrel, rogue and murderer, he divest...

  • The Reluctant Adventuress

    • / Traditional Regency
    • Buy Buy

    KATHARINE WAS TOO BEAUTIFUL.... After all she had been educated to earn her living only as a governess. And being exceptionally beautiful was certainly no asset for such a position. So when Katharine's uncle and his fashionable young wife invited ...

  • Fair Shine the Day

    Conyngton - 1

    Wayward, Rebellious, Beautiful -- Loving.... Charity had always been so. And there was no one she loved more than her friend and neighbor, young Darrell Conyngton, heir to the vast Conyngton estate. They had grown up together. Darrell had often to...

  • Spring Will Come Again

    • / Traditional Regency
    • Buy Buy
    Conyngton - 2

    CHARITY SHENFIELD -- REBEL AND WOMAN Treacherous Jonas Shenfield, Charity's cousin and guardian, wants two things. To prevent Charity's marriage to her beloved, Sir Darrell Conyngton, and to destroy the Conyngton estate. He also wants desperatel...

  • The Changing Tide

    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy
    Conyngton - 3

    "A WOMAN ABOARD SHIP BRINGS ILL LUCK!' Especially one as distractingly fair as Roxanne Stapleford. And from the very first, Captain Tom Pennan's two closest friends, Sir Darrell and Charity Conyngton, had warned him that this voyage seemed strange...

  • Dark Heritage // Tarrington Chase

    Coventry

    Original title: Dark Heritage. From the very beginning of her employment as the governess at Tarrington Chase, lovely, young Perdita Frayne was warned to have absolutely nothing to do with Jason Hawkesworth. To disobey this order would mean instan...

  • No More A-Roving

    • / Traditional Regency
    • Buy Buy

    A TURBULENT TALE OF ROMANCE AND HIGH ADVENTURE IN THE WEST INDIES OF YESTERYEAR... LOVE UNEXPECTED There was something about the tall gray-eyed stranger that caught her attention. For a slave, thought Bethany, he had a most arrogant bearing. ...

  • The Scarlet Domino

    "You would have preferred to remain in New-gate Prison rather than take me for your wife!" Antonia said scornfully. "The thought of freedom would not have tempted you, nor the chance to squander my fortune as you have squandered your own. Do you expe...



  • The Scapegrace

    "A little nobody from the other side of the world with not a penny to her name. And you think you can contract a respectable marriage for her. Ridiculous!" -- Mrs. Courtenay threw the words at Tristram. A wicked glint came into his eyes. "Ridiculou...

  • Dark Enchantress

    Coventry - 48

    Bronwen, the beloved foster-child of a wealthy scholar, had been deprived of her rightful legacy by her cruel and fanatical kinsmen. Reduced from her position as mistress of Twyning Hall to a virtual servant-girl, she fled the only home she had e...

  • Romantic Lady

    • / Traditional Regency
    • Buy Buy

    CAROLINE WAS QUITE A BEAUTY... She was a young red-headed woman with all the impetuous gaiety that goes with red hair. And though her life as governess to her uncle's children seemed rather dreary, nothing could stifle her romantic spirit. And ...

  • The Silver Nightingale

    SARAH WAS THE QUIET ONE... When Lord Chayle proposed marriage to Sarah Lorymer, no one was more surprised than Sarah herself. It was a brilliant match. None of her family had ever expected her to achieve more than a respectable marriage, if that....

  • A Flash of Scarlet

    Conyngton - 4

    LOVE -- INTRIGUE -- BETRAYAL From the moment young Major Bradwell rescued the lovely Imelda from the two drunken louts at the inn, the spark of love struck hard. But their romance seemed doomed, Sir Darrell Conyngton, awaiting Cousin Imelda, w...

  • The Witches of Conyngton

    Conyngton - 5

  • Varleigh Medallion

    When little Theodore Mallory inherited Garth House from an aged and distant relative, it seemed to his eldest sister, Dione, the answer to many problems. Against all advice, she persuaded her widowed mother to remove the family from the luxurious Lon...

  • The Avenhurst Inheritance // Three Loves

    Coventry - 119

    Original title: The Avenhurst Inheritance. THREE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN THREE EXQUISITE PASSIONS THREE HEARTS BEATING WITH LOVE--FOR THE SAME MAN Handsome, passionate Jocelyn Rivers had fallen deeply in love with Celia Croyde , the neighborhood be...

  • Mistress of Astington

    Almost from the moment they met, the young widow, Lady Roxwell, and the dashing Lord Hendreth were at each other's throats. It is true Lord Hendreth was a cynical man with an overbearing manner, but Lady Roxwell was herself quite a challenge. She...

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Sylvia Thorpe has published 28 books.

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The first book by Sylvia Thorpe, The Scandalous Lady Robin, was published in January 1950.

Yes. Sylvia Thorpe has 1 series.
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