The Romantic Novelists' Association

Based in the UK, The Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) is a writers' organization founded in 1960. There are over 600 members. The Association makes a number of awards and runs parties, meetings, seminars and conferences. It also publishes a quarterly magazine.

• The Romantic Novelists' Association' Website

Awards

• Romantic Novel Of The Year Award - All romantic fiction first published in the UK
• RNA Romance Prize - for category romances; the prize money donated by Mills & Boon

Staff

RNA Officers

Presidency

Presidents

• 2011-Present: Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming Fforde (aka Katie Fforde)
• 1986-2011: Diane Margaret Pearson McClelland (aka Diane Pearson)
• 1966-1986: Ida Cook (aka Mary Burchell)
• 1960-1966: Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson (aka Denise Chesterton, Denise Robins, Hervey Hamilton, Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Julia Kane)

Vice-Presidents

Present Vice-Presidents

• Marina Oliver (aka Sally James, Donna Hunt, Bridget Thorn, Vesta Hathaway, Livvy West, Laura Hart)
• Nancy Jean Buckingham Sawyer (Nancy Buckingham, Christina Abbey, Erica Quest, Nancy John, Hilary London)

Former Vice-Presidents

• Elizabeth Margaret Stevens O'Rourke (aka Betty O'Rourke)
• Tilly Armstrong (aka Tania Langley, Kate Alexander)
• Sheila O'Nions Walsh (aka Sheila Walsh, Sophie Leyton)
• Hilda Pressley Nickson (aka Hilda Nickson, Hilda Pressley, Hilary Preston)
• Noreen Ford Dilcock (aka Norrey Ford, Jill Christian, Christian Walford)
• Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge (aka Elizabeth Goudge)
• Helen Zenna Smith (aka Evadne Price)
• Netta Rachel Muskett (aka Netta Muskett, Anne Hill)
• Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland (aka Barbara Cartland)
• Dorothy Delius Black MacLeish (aka Dorothy Black)

Associate Vice-Presidents

• Rosemary de Courcey
• Linda Evans
• Sue Fletcher
• John Hale
• Michael Legat
• Judy Piatkus
• Karin Stoecker
• Jane Wood

Current Committee

Chairmen

• 2011-2013: Anne Ashurst, née Bushell (aka Sara Craven)
• 2009-2011: Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming Fforde (aka Katie Fforde)
• 2007-2009: Catherine Jones (aka Kate Lace, Annie Jones)
• 2005-2007: Jenny Haddon (aka Sophie Weston)
• 2003-2005: Anthea Kenyon
• 2001-2003: Jean Chapman
• 1999-2001: Norma Curtis
• 1997-1999: Angela Arney
• 1995-1997: Elizabeth Mary Oakleigh-Walker Buchan (aka Elizabeth Buchan)
• 1993-1995: Jean Innes Saunders (Jean Saunders, Jean Innes, Rowena Summers, Sally Blake, Jodi Nicol, Rachel Moore)
• 1991-1993: Marina Oliver (aka Sally James, Donna Hunt, Bridget Thorn, Vesta Hathaway, Livvy West, Laura Hart)
• 1989-1991: Margaret Pemberton (aka Maggie Hudson, Carris Carlisle, Christina Harland, Rebecca Dean)
• 1987-1989: Tilly Armstrong (aka Tania Langley, Kate Alexander)
• 1985-1987: Sheila O'Nions Walsh (aka Sheila Walsh, Sophie Leyton)
• 1983-1985: Diana Morgan
• 1981-1983: Contance Fecher Heaven (aka Constance Fecher, Constance Heaven, Christina Merlin)
• 1979-1981: Clare Cavendish
• 1977-1979: Elizabeth Fancourt Harrison (aka Elizabeth Harrison)
• 1975-1977: Nancy Jean Buckingham Sawyer (Nancy Buckingham, Christina Abbey, Erica Quest, Nancy John, Hilary London)
• 1973-1975: Leila Antionette Sterling Mackinlay (aka Leila Mackinlay, Brenda Grey)
• 1971-1973: Alice Chetwynd Ley
• 1969-1971: Lois Dorothea Low (aka Dorothy Mackie Low, Lois Paxton, Zoë Cass)
• 1967-1969: Stella March
• 1965-1967: June Sylvia Thimblethorpe (aka Sylvia Thorpe)
• 1963-1965: Noreen Ford Dilcock (aka Norrey Ford, Jill Christian, Christian Walford)
• 1961-1963: Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann (aka Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V.A. Stuart, William Stuart Long, Robyn Stuart)

Vice-chairman

• Norma Curtis

Hon Treasurer

• Jenny Haddon (aka Sophie Weston)

Hon Deputy Treasurer

• Priscilla Jane Gordon-Cumming Osborn (aka Jane Gordon-Cumming)

Hon Secretary

• Evelyn Ryle

Others

• Angela Arney
• Janet Gover
• Nicola Cornick
• Pia Tapper Fenton
• Melanie Hilton
• Linda Hooper
• Jenny Harper
• Jan Jones
• Myra Kersner
• Catherine King
• Sue Moorcroft

Honor Life Members

• Sarah Broadhurst
• Edwin Buckhalter
• David G. Hessayon (aka Dr. D.G. Hessayon)
• Caroline Sheldon
• June Sylvia Thimblethorpe (aka Sylvia Thorpe)