Susan Barrie (1908–2013)
Author of A Rose for Danger
About the Author
Ida Pollock was born in London, England in 1908. She had her first stories published while she was in her teens, and went on to write numerous books under almost a dozen pseudonyms. She took a solo trip to Morocco while a teenager and worked in London during the Blitz. She took up writing intensely show more to support her family after her husband went bankrupt in 1950. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 120 books under Susan Barrie, Rose Burghley, Marguerite Bell and others. Her works included White Heat, The Devil's Daughter, The Sweet Surrender, and the memoir Starlight. She died on December 3, 2013 at the age of 105. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
Ida Crowe Pollock writes as her married name Ida Pollock and under the pseudonyms Joan M. Allen, Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler and Marguerite Bell.
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Works by Susan Barrie
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume VIII: Choose the One You'll Marry / Sweet Barbary / Senior Surgeon at St. David's (1971) — Contributor — 4 copies
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXXIII: Flower for a Bride / Bachelors Galore / Hope for the Doctor (1970) — Contributor — 3 copies
The Runaways / Eleanor and the Marquis / A Rose for Danger / The Secret of Val Verde — Contributor — 2 copies
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XVII: No Silver Spoon / Nurse Nolan / The Time and the Place (1971) — Contributor — 2 copies
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume X: The Wild Land / Surgeon for Tonight / Four Roads to Windrush (1971) — Contributor — 2 copies
Gideon Faber's Chance 1 copy
Romance Treasury: Tuesday's Jillaroo / The Fires of Torretta / The Keys of the Castle (1985) — Contributor — 1 copy
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXXIX: So Dear to My Heart / The Nurse Most Likely / Whispering Palms — Contributor — 1 copy
The House of the Laird 1 copy
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXI: The Doctor's Daughters / Gates of Dawn / The Gift at Snowy River (1972) 1 copy
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXX: Children's Nurse / Heart Specialist / Child Friday — Contributor — 1 copy
Harlequin Omnibus 38: Return to Tremarth / Night of the Singing Birds / Bride in Waiting (1976) 1 copy
Carper of Dreams 1 copy
Love in the Sunlight 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Crowe Pollock, Ida
- Other names
- Allen, Joan M.
Barrie, Susan
Kent, Pamela
Ives, Averil
Charles, Anita
Rowan, Barbara (show all 11)
Beauford, Jane
Burghley, Rose
Whistler, Mary
Pollock, Ida
Bell, Margerite - Birthdate
- 1908-04-12
- Date of death
- 2013-12-03
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Lewisham, Kent, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Malta
Cornwall, England, UK - Occupations
- romance novelist
short story writer
historical novelist
autobiographer
suspense author
painter - Relationships
- Pollock, Rosemary (daughter)
Pollock, Hugh, (spouse) - Short biography
- Susan Barrie was one of the many pen names of Ida Pollock, née Crowe, who was born in Lewisham in southeast London, England. Her parents’ marriage fell apart shortly after she was born, and her mother worked as a housekeeper for relatives. Ida began writing at a young age and at 14, published her first novella, a thriller called The Towers of Ravenshaunt. By age 20, she had published several stories in major magazines and in book form. She became a full-time writer in the 1930s. Over the nine decades of her career, she wrote prolifically and sold millions of copies of romance novels with titles such as Indian Love (1935), The Sweet Surrender (1959) and Master of Melincourt (1966). Being in print with many titles of different genres at different publishers, she used multiple pseudonyms; these included Joan M. Allen, Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler and Marguerite Bell. As a young woman, she had a long-term affair with Lt-Col. Hugh Pollock, a writer and editor who was 20 years her senior and married to Enid Blyton. They were finally married in 1943 and had a daughter the following year, Rosemary Pollock, who also became a romance writer. They lived in Ireland, France, Italy, Malta and Switzerland. In 1964, she published her first historical novel, The Gentle Masquerade, under her married name Ida Pollock. She also wrote suspense novels and an autobiography, Starlight (2009). In 1960, she was a founding member of the Romantic Novelists' Association. In her 90s, she became a painter and built scale miniatures of Georgian and Tudor buildings.
- Disambiguation notice
- Ida Crowe Pollock writes as her married name Ida Pollock and under the pseudonyms Joan M. Allen, Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler and Marguerite Bell.
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- Works
- 135
- Members
- 513
- Popularity
- #48,356
- Rating
- 3.0
- Reviews
- 6
- ISBNs
- 234
- Languages
- 2
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I would have adored this book in my adolescence when I was devouring romance novels! I still found it a pleasant read - nice clean romance. However, the plot was predictable (maybe because of all that teenage reading) and the secondary characters quite two dimensional.
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