Autobiographies and Biographies of Romance Authors

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Aiken Hodge, Jane. 
The Private World of Georgette Heyer. 1984. London: Arrow, 2006.
Barclay, Florence Louisa Charlesworth. 
The life of Florence L. Barclay: a study in personality by one of her daughters. London: Putnam, 1921.
Cartland, Barbara. 
I Reach for the Stars: An Autobiography. London: Robson, 1994.
Cartland, Barbara. 
I Search for Rainbows. London: Hutchinson, 1967.
Cartland, Barbara. 
I Seek the Miraculous. London: Sheldon, 1978.
Cartland, Barbara. 
The Isthmus Years, 1919-1939. London: Hutchinson, [1943?]
Cartland, Barbara. 
The Years of Opportunity, 1939-1945. London: Hutchinson.
Cartland, Barbara. 
We Danced All Night. London: Hutchinson, 1970.
Cloud, Henry. 
Barbara Cartland, Crusader in Pink: The Life Story of the Undisputed Queen of Romance. 1979. London: Pan, 1981.
Cook, Ida. 
Safe Passage. Richmond, Surrey: MIRA, 2008. [First published in 1950 by Mills & Boon under the title We Followed Our Stars. Ida Cook was published by Harlequin Mills & Boon under the pseudonym "Mary Burchell."]
Heald, Tim. 
A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994.
James, Eloisa. 
Paris in Love: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 2012.
Kloester, Jennifer. 
Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller. Heinemann, Forthcoming.
Pollock, Ida. 
Starlight: A Memoir by Ida Pollock. Authors Online Ltd, 2009. Abstract [Pollock was published under a variety of pseudonyms including Susan Barrie, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Anita Charles, Pamela Kent, Barbara Rowan, and Mary Whistler.]
Robyns, Gwen. 
Barbara Cartland: An Authorised Biography. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984.
Ruck, Berta. 
According to the Archives of Wales, Ruck "published several memoir-style works: A Story-Teller Tells the Truth (London, 1935), A Smile for the Past (London, 1959), A Trickle of Welsh Blood (London, 1967), An Asset to Wales (London, 1970), and Ancestral Voices (1972)."
Weir, Theresa. 
The Orchard: A Memoir. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2011.