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Harriet Gray
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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.
Full Series List in Order
Fauna Trilogy
1 - Gold for the Gay Masters (Jan-1954)2 - Bride of Doom (1956)
3 - The Flame and the Frost (1957)
Book List in Order: 5 titles
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Gold for the Gay Masters
- Jan-1954
- / Contemporary Romance
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Fauna is an exquisitely beautiful quadroon, in her veins mingled the blood of noble African chiefs and fiery Irish poets. Sold into cruel slavery in the West Indies, she is rescued by Lord Pumphret, a noted English dandy of the Georgian period. But F...
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Bride of Doom
- 1956
- / Contemporary Romance
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Fauna, the beautiful quarter-caste slave-girl, had a daughter Fleur Roddney comes to the fore. As alluring and fatally captivating as her mother, Fleur 's life would never be a life of ease... This is Fleur's story. The story of an arranged marriage ...
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Dance in the Dust
- 1959
- / Contemporary Romance
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Seduction, betrayal, rapture. Lord Esmond Walhurst, fitht Earl of Mornbury and the handsomest man in all England, had renounced his elegantly reckless lifestyle - only to be shattered by a cruel tragedy. Grief-stricken, he resumed his dissolute livin...
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My Lady Destiny
- 1961
- / Contemporary Romance
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Her dying mother christened her Destiny, and the lovely, lonely orphan grows up a drudge in a poor parsonage. Until she is fifteen, she has no idea that she is the daughter of Lord Claud, the Earl of Destermere. Then, from his deathbed in Switzerland...
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The Flame and the Frost
- 1957
- / Contemporary Romance
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Readers of "Gold for the Gay Masters" and "Bride of Doom" will need no recommendation to "The Flame and the Frost", which follows the fortunes of the third-generation, the orphan Charlotte Goff. After narrowly avoiding being run down by her coach, Ch...