Robins, Denise Naomi (1897–1985)

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Robins, Denise Naomi (1897–1985)

British romance novelist. Name variations: (pseudonyms) Denise Chesterton; Ashley French; Harriet Gray; Hervey Hamilton; Julia Kane; Francesca Wright. Born Denise Naomi Klein, Feb 1, 1897, in London, England; died May 1, 1985, in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England; dau. of Herman Klein and Denise Clarice (Cornwell) Klein; m. Arthur Robins, 1918; m. O'Neill Pearson, 1939; children: 3.

Works include The Marriage Bond (1924), And All Because (1930), Love Game (1936), Winged Love (1941), The Uncertain Heart (1949), The Price of Folly (1955), Dance in the Dust (1959), The Crash (1966), Dark Corridor (1974), and Fauna (1978).

See also autobiography Stranger Than Fiction (1965).

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