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Auteur

Baillie Reynolds

Romancière britannique (1861-1939)

Naissance
11 juillet 1861, Teddington
Décès
22 novembre 1939
Nationalité
Royaume-Uni et Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande
Profession
Écrivaine, romancière et suffragiste

Vie et œuvre

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Gertrude Minnie Robins (11 July 1861 — 22 November 1939) was an English writer, author of over fifty novels, many of them under her married name, Mrs. Baillie Reynolds.

Early life

Gertrude Minnie Robins was born in Teddington, the daughter of Julian Robins. Her father was a barrister. She attended South Hampstead High School.

Career

Robins published her first novel, Keep My Secret, in 1886. She would go on to write over fifty novels and story collections, mostly in the crime, mystery, or gothic genres, including A False Position (1887), The Tree of Knowledge (1889), The Ides of March (1892), In the Balance (1893), To Set Her Free (1895), Her Point of View (1896), The Silence is Broken (1897), Nigel Ferrard (1899), The Professional and Other Psychic Stories (1900), The Relations and What They Related (1902), Phoebe in Fetters (1904), The Man Who Won (1905), A Dull Girl's Destiny (1907), Broken Off (1908), Thalassa! (1908), The Supreme Test (1908), The Girl from Nowhere (1910), Out of the Night (1910), Nigel Ferrard (1911), The Notorious Miss Lisle (1911), A Makeshift Marriage (1912), A Doubtful Character (1914), The Daughter Pays (1916), A Castle to Let (1917), Open Sesame! (1918), The King's Widow (1919), Also Ran (1920), The Judgment of Charis (1922), The Lost Discovery (1923), The Spell of Sarnia (1925), The Innocent Accomplice (1928), Whereabouts Unknown (1931), The Missing Two (1932), The Terrible Baron and Other Stories (1933), Very Private Secretary (1933), The Intrusive Tourist (1935), Trouble at Glaye (1936), and It Is Not Safe to Know (1939). "Mrs. Baillie Reynolds has a knack for creating diverting situations and for finding odd and unusual places in which to develop them," noted a reviewer in 1918.

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Collection

Livres de Baillie Reynolds

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