Patricia Robins

Patricia Denise Robins Clark[1]
Born Patricia Denise Robins
1 February 1921 (1921-02-01) (age 91)
Hove, Sussex, England
Pen name Patricia Robins,
Claire Lorrimer,
Susan Patrick[1]
Occupation Novelist
Nationality British
Genres romance, gothic
Spouse(s) Mr. Clark
Children 3
Relative(s) Denise Robins (mother),
Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell (grandmother),
Adrian Bernard Klein (uncle)
www.clairelorrimer.co.uk

Patricia Robins (born 1 February 1921 in Hove, Sussex, England) is a British romance novelist, also known as Claire Lorrimer.

Robins comes from an artistic family. Her maternal grandfather was Herman Klein, a musician and her maternal grandmother was the writer Kathleen Clarice Groom. Her mother was the popular romance writer Denise Robins, who was the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960–1966). Her maternal uncle was Adrian Cornwell-Clyne, who wrote books on photography and cinematography, another uncle was an artist, as is her daughter.[2]

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Biography

Born Patricia Denise Robins on 1 February 1921 in Hove, Sussex, England. She is the daughter of Arthur Robins, a corn broker on the Baltic Exchange and Denise Robins, an author and the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960–1966). She has two sisters Eve Louise and Anne Eleanor. She has educated at Parents' National Educational Union at Burgess Hill, Sussex.[3]

Her mother encouraged her to write, and at 12, she published her first children's novellas. She worked with a woman's magazine editorial team and published more children's novellas, she went on to write romance novels like her mother. In the 1967 she started to use the pseudonym Claire Lorrimer to wrote gothic romances, and later family sagas, now she only used this pseudonym.

Patricia Clark lived in rural Kent, she had three children and eight grandchildren.[2]

Bibliography

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As Patricia Robins

Children's Books

Romance Novels

As Claire Lorrimer

Mavreen Saga

  1. Mavreen (1976)
  2. Tamarisk (1978)
  3. Chantal (1980)
Mavreen (Audio)
  1. The Full Moon (1995)
  2. Harvest Moon (1995)
  3. The New Moon (1995)
Tamarisk (Audio)
  1. The Fledgling (1996)
  2. The Skylark (1996)

Rochford Trilogy

  1. The Chatelaine (1978)
  2. The Wilderling (1982)
  3. Fool's Curtain (1994)

Ortolans

Ortolans (1990)
  1. Eleanor (1994)
  2. Sophia (1994)
  3. Emma (1994)

Bainbury Saga

  1. The Reunion (1997)
  2. The Reckoning (1998)

Single novels

Gothic Romance
Historical Novels
Light Romances
Murder Mysteries
Novels

Collections

Non fiction

References and sources

  1. ^ a b International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004, http://books.google.es/books?id=Dt8nO2bOnysC&pg=PA104&dq=Patricia+Denise+Robins+Clark&hl=es&ei=3kDHTPauF8HP4AaNsOSsDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Patricia%20Denise%20Robins%20Clark&f=false/ 
  2. ^ a b [1] Author's Website
  3. ^ Twentieth-century romance and gothic writers, http://books.google.es/books?id=hvYdAQAAIAAJ&q=Patricia+Denise+Robins+Clark&dq=Patricia+Denise+Robins+Clark&hl=es&ei=3kDHTPauF8HP4AaNsOSsDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBg 
  4. ^ Patricia Robins at fantasticfiction.co.uk