Author. She was a prolific English author of romance novels writing over 134 titles. Her first publication was for the publishing company Mills & Boon in England and later reprinted in the United States by Harlequin. Her career spanned thirty years, and she continued to write into her ninetieth year.
She was born Evelyn Jessy Neelson September 15, 1909 in Leyton (then part of Essex but now in Greater London) to a family with firm roots in the Civil Service. She spent her childhood and youth in Devonshire and then went to a boarding school where she gained her State Registered Nurse and State Certificate of Midwifery.
In 1939 she got called to serve in the Territorial Army Nursing Service (TANS), which later became the Queen Alexandra Reserves, and was sent to France until the invasion of France in 1940.
She was married in 1942 and had a daughter in 1945. They lived in London, and later they moved to the Netherlands for thirteen years, where she resumed her nursing career. When the family returned to England, she continued her nursing.
She claimed becoming an author was by accident. After retiring from nursing, she heard a lady in her local library complaining about the lack of good romance novels, and her new career was born.
She was born Evelyn Jessy Neelson September 15, 1909 in Leyton (then part of Essex but now in Greater London) to a family with firm roots in the Civil Service. She spent her childhood and youth in Devonshire and then went to a boarding school where she gained her State Registered Nurse and State Certificate of Midwifery.
In 1939 she got called to serve in the Territorial Army Nursing Service (TANS), which later became the Queen Alexandra Reserves, and was sent to France until the invasion of France in 1940.
She was married in 1942 and had a daughter in 1945. They lived in London, and later they moved to the Netherlands for thirteen years, where she resumed her nursing career. When the family returned to England, she continued her nursing.
She claimed becoming an author was by accident. After retiring from nursing, she heard a lady in her local library complaining about the lack of good romance novels, and her new career was born.
Author. She was a prolific English author of romance novels writing over 134 titles. Her first publication was for the publishing company Mills & Boon in England and later reprinted in the United States by Harlequin. Her career spanned thirty years, and she continued to write into her ninetieth year.
She was born Evelyn Jessy Neelson September 15, 1909 in Leyton (then part of Essex but now in Greater London) to a family with firm roots in the Civil Service. She spent her childhood and youth in Devonshire and then went to a boarding school where she gained her State Registered Nurse and State Certificate of Midwifery.
In 1939 she got called to serve in the Territorial Army Nursing Service (TANS), which later became the Queen Alexandra Reserves, and was sent to France until the invasion of France in 1940.
She was married in 1942 and had a daughter in 1945. They lived in London, and later they moved to the Netherlands for thirteen years, where she resumed her nursing career. When the family returned to England, she continued her nursing.
She claimed becoming an author was by accident. After retiring from nursing, she heard a lady in her local library complaining about the lack of good romance novels, and her new career was born.
She was born Evelyn Jessy Neelson September 15, 1909 in Leyton (then part of Essex but now in Greater London) to a family with firm roots in the Civil Service. She spent her childhood and youth in Devonshire and then went to a boarding school where she gained her State Registered Nurse and State Certificate of Midwifery.
In 1939 she got called to serve in the Territorial Army Nursing Service (TANS), which later became the Queen Alexandra Reserves, and was sent to France until the invasion of France in 1940.
She was married in 1942 and had a daughter in 1945. They lived in London, and later they moved to the Netherlands for thirteen years, where she resumed her nursing career. When the family returned to England, she continued her nursing.
She claimed becoming an author was by accident. After retiring from nursing, she heard a lady in her local library complaining about the lack of good romance novels, and her new career was born.
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