Ashley French

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  • Bibliography:
    3 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1953
  • Latest Book:
    January 1956
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About the Author

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: 3 titles

  • Once Is Enough

    Sylvia Penhurst is forced to bear the burden of her unhappy marriage, her ardent temperament subdued by her husband's cold unfeeling behavour. Then suddenly, to her yearning, caged heart comes love, love of the kind her husband cannot, will not give....

  • The Bitter Core

    When beautiful Venetia Sellingham got married for the second time they all said it wouldn’t work. For young huntsman Mike Petheric, though handsome and virile, was twelve years her junior. But Venetia didn’t care and neither did Maybelle, her fif...

  • Breaking Point

    Beautiful Christa came to Queen's Lacey, a Buckinghamshire farm, as a young bride. Deeply in love with her husband Anthony Chalford, who adored her, but who is saddy dominated by his mother. Julia, her cold mother-in-law, soon makes it clear that she...



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Ashley French has published 3 books.

Ashley French does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Breaking Point, was published in January 1956.

The first book by Ashley French, Once Is Enough, was published in January 1953.

No. Ashley French does not write books in series.
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