Denise Robins

Denise Robins (1897–1985) was an English novelist whose bestselling romantic fiction appeared from the 1920s through the 1970s. She also wrote as Denise Chesterton and used other pen names.

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The Uncertain Glory: A novel by Denise Robins, published in 1925. This early success helped establish the popular-fiction career that followed.
K. C. Groom: An English novelist and journalist, and the father of Denise Robins. His writing career and newspaper work formed part of her literary family background.
Alfred Robert Chesterton: An English journalist and editor who was Denise Robins’s second husband. Their marriage explains her use of the surname Chesterton as a byline.
Romance Writers of the World: An international organization founded in 1957 to promote romance writers and their work. Robins helped found the organization and served as its first president.
The Shattered Dream: A novel by Denise Robins, published in 1927. It belongs to the early run of novels that built her readership.
Geraldine Edith Mitton: An English writer who published as L. T. Meade and was Denise Robins’s mother. Her mother was an established author whose example surrounded Robins from childhood.
Victoria Cross: An English novelist whose romantic fiction was popular in the early twentieth century. Cross was another successful writer in the commercial romance world Robins entered.
Bestseller: A book that achieves high sales relative to its market and period. Her repeated bestselling novels made her a major commercial presence.
The House of the Seven Flies: A novel by Denise Robins, published in 1935. Its title exemplifies the dramatic, suspenseful appeal of her fiction.
Denise Chesterton: A pen name used by Denise Robins after her marriage to Alfred Robert Chesterton. This name appears on work from a different stage of her personal and publishing life.