Queen of Romance, The

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Ganed Marguerite Florence Laura Jervis yn Burma yn 1886 a thyfodd yn un o nofelwyr mwyaf llwyddiannus ei chyfnod, gan gyhoeddi dros 140 o nofelau. Addaswyd 11 ohonynt ar gyfer y sgrîn yn cynnwys The Pleasure Garden . Ond pwy, mewn gwirionedd, oedd yr awdures hon a feddai sawl enw a ffugenw megis Mrs Caradoc Evans, Oliver Sandys a Countess Barcynska i enwi ond rhai ohonynt.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Marguerite Florence Laura Jervis was born in Burma in 1886 and became one of the most successful novelists of her time, publishing over 140 novels, 11 of which were adapted for film, including The Pleasure Garden , directorial debut of Alfred Hitchcock. Known variously as Mrs Caradoc Evans, Oliver Sandys, Countess Barcynska and many other pseudonyms, who was she really?

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Liz Jones is a writer of creative non-fiction and creative writing tutor. Shortlisted for the 2017 New Welsh Review writing award and runner-up in the 2019 Hektoen International essay award, she has written for everything from literary journals to women’s weeklies. She holds a doctorate in stage to screen adaptation – the result of her longstanding fascination with hidden histories of theatre and cinema. She lives in Aberystwyth with her husband where, winter or summer, she can be found splashing about in the Irish Sea. This is her first biography

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Liz Jones has dug deep beneath the tale told in Marguerite Jervis's own somewhat romanticised memoir to reveal what made this driven and determined woman. And what turned her from a spoilt child of the English middle classes to a workaholic who could turn her hand to any literary endeavour and who became a runaway popular success during the most turbulent years of the 20th century.