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Rona Randall
British writer

Rona Randall

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British writer
A.K.A.
Rona Shambrook Virginia Standage Rona Green Rona Green Shambrook
Work field
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Birkenhead, United Kingdom
Age
113 years
Awards
Romantic Novelists' Association Awards
 
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Biography

Rona Shambrook, née Green (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 Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

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Personal life

Shambrook was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England 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.

Career and works

A former actress, before writing, she worked also as journalist and sub-director of publishing company Amalgamated Press, and as assistant editor of George Newnes Ltd. Published since 1942, she started publishing mainly contemporary doctor nurse romances, before writing also gothic romances, and when the market for gothic novels softened, she wrote historical mystery romances. In 1970, Broken Tapestry, her contemporary novel about a broken family, won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. In 1989, she wrote her 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.

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