Rona Randall

Rona Green Shambrook
Born Rona Green
(1911-06-16)16 June 1911
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England
Pen name Rona Randall,
Rona Shambrook,
Virginia Standage
Occupation Novelist
Language English
Nationality British
Period 1942–2001
Genre Gothic, romance
Notable awards RoNA Award
Spouse Frederick Walter Shambrook
Children 1

Rona Shambrook, née Green (b. 16 June 1911 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England), was a British writer of over 50 gothic, 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.[1]

Biography

Personal life

Born Rona Green on 16 June 1911 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK.[2] Her education includes: Pitmans College in London, a Diploma in English Literature at Royal Society of Art, Birkenhead School of Art Literary.[3]

In 1938, she married Frederick Walter Shambrook, she had a son.[3]

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.[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, 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.[1]

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.

Bibliography

As Rona Randall

Single novels

Potters Saga

  1. The Drayton Legacy (1986)
  2. The Potter's Niece (1987)
  3. The Rival Potters (1990)

Non-Fiction

As Rona Shambrook

Single novels

As Virginia Standage

Single novels

References and sources

  1. 1 2 Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 4 August 2012
  2. Geoffrey Handley-Taylor (1972), Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire Authors Today, Eddison Press Ltd, p. 70
  3. 1 2 3 Ernest Kay (1989), The International Authors and Writers Who's Who, International Biographical Centre, p. 1017
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