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Hervey Hamilton
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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.
Book List in Order: 2 titles
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Family Holiday
- 1937
- / Contemporary Romance
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The poignant story of a woman who is forced to pay the ultimate price for love. The summer for Clare, Guy Tardy and the children brought the holiday - just like every other year. It also brings that chance meeting with Blake Randall, the young off...
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Figs in Frost
- 1946
- / Contemporary Romance
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Lucia had married young, yielding more to her parents urgings than the dictates of her heart. As the years went by, she grew to despise her brutish, egotistical husband-finding contentment only in raising her two young daughters. Then suddenly, Lucia...