Rona Shambrook, néeGreen (born 16 June 1911, date of death unknown), was a British writer of over 50 gothic and romance novels, and some non-fiction books, under the pseudonym of Rona Randall from 1942 to 2001. She also used her married name Rona Shambrook and the pseudonym of Virginia Standage. In 1970, her novel Broken Tapestry won the Romantic Novel of the Year Awardfrom the Romantic Novelists' Association.[1]
Biography
Shambrook was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England[2] Her education includes Pitmans College in London, a Diploma in English literature at Royal Society of Art, Birkenhead School of Art Literary. In 1938, she married Frederick Walter Shambrook. She had a son.[3]
A former actress, before writing she worked also as journalist and sub-director of the publishing company Amalgamated Press, and as assistant editor of George Newnes Ltd.[3] Published since 1942, she started publishing mainly contemporary doctor-nurse romances, before writing also gothic romances and, when the market for gothic novels softened, historical mystery romances. In 1970, Broken Tapestry, her contemporary novel about a broken family, won the Romantic Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel of the Year Award.[1] In 1989, she wrote The Model Wife: Nineteenth Century Style, a book about social constumbres, including clothing. In 1992, she wrote Writing Popular Fiction, a complete guide for writers.
Bibliography
As Rona Randall
Single novels
The Moon Returns (1942)
Doctor Havelock's Wife (1943)
Rebel Wife (1944)
The Late Mrs. Lane (1945)
That Girl, Jennifer! (1946)
The Howards of Saxondale (1946)
The Fleeting Hour (1947)
She Married a Doctor (1947) aka I Married a Doctor aka The Doctor Takes a Wife
The Street of the Singing Fountain (1948)
Shadows on the Sand (1949)
Delayed Harvest (1950)
Young Dr. Kenway (1950)
The Island Doctor (1951)
Bright Morning (1952)
Girls in White (1953)
Young Sir Galahad (1953)
Journey to Love (1953) aka Journey to Arcady
Faith, Hope and Charity (1954) aka Sisters in Nursing aka Lab Nurse
