Valerie Sherwood (1922–2014)
Author of Lovesong
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Jeanne Hines wrote gothic romance novels with her real name. She later used the pen names Valerie Sherwood and Rosamond Royal to write historical romance novels.
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Works by Valerie Sherwood
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Hines, Jeanne
- Other names
- Sherwood, Valerie
Royal, Rosamond - Birthdate
- 1922
- Date of death
- 2014
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- novelist
- Awards and honors
- Romantic Times Career Achievement Award (Historical Adventure, 1987-1988)
- Short biography
- Jeanne Hines was born on 1922 in West Virginia by landed gentry. She says "My family thought I'd be just like everybody else, get married and stop. I'm a real character. I'm not really like anybody I know."
Jeanne worked as a reporter and fashion magazine illustrator before turning to became a novelist. Published since 1973, she signed gothic novels as her real name and romance novels as Valerie Sherwood and Rosamond Royal. She won the Romantic Times 1987-1988 Career Achievement Award in the category of "historical adventure". When Chris Marie Green (aka Crystal Green), was nineteen years old, she wrote a fan letter to Jeanne, and the popular writer answered her gushing missive and inspired Chris to write her first romance.
She wrote while she traveled with her husband between their five mansions distributed on the East Coast, but spent most of their time in a fusty Charlotte, North Carolina, ranch-style house. - Nationality
- USA (brith)
- Places of residence
- West Virginia, USA (birth)
- Disambiguation notice
- Jeanne Hines wrote gothic romance novels with her real name. She later used the pen names Valerie Sherwood and Rosamond Royal to write historical romance novels.
- Associated Place (for map)
- West Virginia, USA
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I read this first when I was 12 and again when I was 20. I still love it. Carolina is a headstrong American girl who finds herself in England and in love. Willing to do anything for love, she boards a ship and has the (mis)fortune to be on a boat taken by infamous pirate Captain Kells. This is the first of 3 extraordinary books. Sure they're bodice rippers but books like this are the reason the bodice-ripper genre is so enduring.
Perhaps the brawling colonies would have been safer for a plainer girl, one more demure and less accomplished in language and manner. But Charity Woodstock was gloriously beautiful with pale gold hair and topaz eyes -- and she was headed for trouble. She was accused of witchcraft by the man who had attacked her. She was whisked from the stake by a highwayman in whose arms she found joy but no sanctuary. Fate flung her from the manor of a Dutch patroon to the simple hut of a Quaker, from show more pirate ship to plantation. Beauty might have been her downfall, but Charity Woodstock had a reckless passion to live and a fine determination to give herself only for love. She would challenge this new world--and win. show less
Kells chooses to go to sea and leave Carolina behind. He doesn't come back. Carolina finds herself having to flee their home. She thinks he's dead. Then, miraculously, she finds him, alive and well...and with amnesia. Carolina has to make him fall in love with her all over again if she wants to have her happily ever after. This was my favorite one of the three.
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