Patricia Robins

Patricia Robins
Born Patricia Denise Robins
(1921-02-01)1 February 1921
Hove, Sussex, England
Died 3 December 2016(2016-12-03) (aged 95)
Kent, England
Pen name Patricia Robins,
Claire Lorrimer,
Susan Patrick[1]
Occupation Novelist
Nationality British
Genre romance, gothic
Spouse Donald Clark
Partner Mel Hack
Children 3
Relatives Denise Robins (mother),
Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell (grandmother),
Adrian Bernard Klein (uncle)
Website
www.clairelorrimer.co.uk

Patricia Robins[1] (1 February 1921 – 4 December 2016) was a British writer of short stories and more than 80 romance novels, also known as Claire Lorrimer, she had sold more than ten million copies. She also served as Women's Auxiliary Air Force officer during World War II tracking Nazi bombers.[2]

Robins came 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.[3]

Biography

Patricia Denise Robins was born on 1 February 1921 in Hove, Sussex, England, the second daughter of Arthur Robins, a corn broker on the Baltic Exchange and Denise Robins, an prolific author, who sold more than one hundred million copies, and the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960–1966). She had two sisters, Eve Louise and Anne Eleanor. She was educated at Parents' National Educational Union at Burgess Hill, Sussex[4], and also in Switzerland and Germany.

Her mother encouraged her to write, and at 12 she published her first children's novellas. She worked as junior editor in a a woman's magazine editorial.

Thanks to her knowledge of German, she served as Women's Auxiliary Air Force officer during World War II. She tracking Nazi bombers with the fledgling British radar system. Not until 2013 she received recognition, because of the confidential nature of her work.

During the war she also went on to write romance novels like her mother. In the 1967 she started to use the pseudonym Claire Lorrimer to write Gothic romances, and later family sagas.

In 1947, she married former RAF pilot Donald Clark, they had three children, Ian, Nicky and Graeme. Because her husband's job, the family lived in many countries, including Lybia. After their divorce, she startd a relation with Mel Hack and moved to 400-year-old former barn in rural Kent.

In her late years, she devoted more time to her eight grandchildren, Emily, Jemma, Polly, Charlotte, Thomas, Arthur, Max and Tilly, but she continued writing until her death.[3][5]

On March 2016, she was given the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Romantic Novelists' Association. She passed away on 4 December 2016 in Hove.

Bibliography

[6]

As Patricia Robins

Children's Books

Romance Novels

As Claire Lorrimer

Women of Fire Saga

  1. Mavreen (1976) aka Scarlett
  2. Tamarisk (1978) aka Antoinette
  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. 1 2 International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004
  2. ↑ Renowned author who tracked Nazi bombers in World War Two then entranced a generation of women with her romantic novels has died aged 95
  3. 1 2 Author's Website
  4. ↑ Twentieth-century romance and gothic writers
  5. ↑ "Award-winning romantic novelist Claire Lorrimer dies". thebookseller.com. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  6. ↑ Patricia Robins at fantasticfiction.co.uk


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