Rosalind Brett (author)

Lillian Warren
Lillian Warren
Born	England, United Kingdom
Pen name	Rosalind Brett
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	British
Period	1950 - 1959
Genre	Romantic novel

Lillian Warren, pseudonym Rosalind Brett (fl. 1950s) was a British author who wrote for Mills & Boon romance. As a prolific author of romance novels, she had two other pseudonyms, Kathryn Blair and Celine Conway. At the height of her career, Warren was considered one of publisher's superstars, who set high sales records and a standard for romances published during the 1950s. Joseph McAleer in his book Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills and Boon, describes Brett's work as so sexy for the era, that it often had to be "watered down". According to McAleer, she is credited by Anne Weale as inventing the "punishing kiss". Brett/Warren came to Mills & Boon from Rich & Cowan, a publisher she felt didn't offer her enough support.

Book notes

Rosalind Brett's romances from the 1950s are historically significant for the Mills & Boon series, by her choice of locations. Her stories take readers away from the British Isles, to East Africa: Rhodesia, Nyasaland, providing glimpses of Salisbury (present day Harare) and Bulawayo, the second city in what is now Zimbabwe. Other locations are French Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, and the Pacific Islands. The main characters are at work trying to build prosperous lives in what were British, French and Portuguese colonies.

Publishing in post World War II period, Brett writes at the crossroads of history when, colonial rule once paramount in parts of Africa, Asia and the Pacific, would come to be challenged. While her stories depict the colonial life, absent from them is any underlying tension between rulers and subjects.

Bibliography

As Rosalind Brett Single novels

Secret Marriage - 1947, ASIN: B000WHQZ2I Amazon Standard Identification Number
Pagan Interlude - 1947, ASIN: B000WHPKB0 Amazon Standard Identification Number
For My Sins - 1966, ASIN: B0045B1694 Amazon Standard Identification Number
A Cottage In Spain - 1955, September 1965 Harlequin Romance #952
And No Regrets - 1950, Presents, #71 December 1974
Brittle Bondage - 1951, 1962 (Mills & Boon); July 1969 Harlequin Romance #1319
Dangerous Waters - 1960, December 1964 Harlequin Romance #877
Elizabeth Browne, Children's Nurse - April, 1965 Harlequin Romance #908
Fair Horizon - 1952, 1963 Harlequin Romance #760
Hotel Mirador - 1959, February 1966 Harlequin Romance #989
Nurse On Holiday - 1963 Harlequin Romance #740
Love This Stranger - 1951, Presents, #55 August 1974
Portrait Of Susan - 1956, December 1963 Harlequin Romance #783
Stormy Haven - 1952, 1962 Harlequin Romance #656
Sweet Waters - 1955, February 1964 Harlequin Romance #800
Tangle In Sunshine - 1957, July 1964 Harlequin Romance #839
The Bolambo Affair - 1961, August 1967 Harlequin Romance #1131
The Girl At White Drift - 1962, April 1967 Harlequin Romance #1101
The Reluctant Guest - 1959, November 1964 Harlequin Romance #869
They Came To Valeira - 1950, Presents, #43 May 1974
Too Young To Marry - 1958, September 1964 Harlequin Romance #856
Towards The Sun - 1953, 1962 Harlequin Romance #693
Whispering Palms - 1954, 1963 Harlequin Romance #731
Winds In The Wilderness - 1954, 1963 Harlequin Romance #773
Winds Of Enchantment - 1954, January 1968 Harlequin Romance #1176
Young Tracy - 1958, April 1964 Harlequin Romance #815

References

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Hsu-Ming Teo - Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels 2012- Page 203 "“Rosalind Brett” (Lillian Warren), one of the most popular postwar authors for Mills & Boon, tapped into a growing trend when she wrote stories about independent young women who went out to the sunlit plains of Africa, where they met, ..."
The Writer's Directory, 1998-2000 - Page 136 Miranda H. Ferrara - 1995 "Also writes as Rosalind Brett, Celine Conway. British. GENRES: Romance/Historical. PUBLICATIONS: (as Rosalind Brett) Green Leaves, 1947; (as Rosalind Brett) Pagan Interlude, 1947; (as Rosalind Brett) Secret Marriage, 1947; (as Rosalind ..."
Abby Gaines - - Her So-Called Fiancé 2012 It was written by Kathryn Blair, who also wrote as Rosalind Brett and Celine Conway (though it took me a while to figure out my three favorite authors were the same person!). I loved those books! They set such high ideals for the kind of ..."
Joseph McAleer Passion’s Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon Print publication date: 1999 Print ISBN 9780198204558 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204558.001.0001 08 Chapter PF "the 1950s, Lillian Warren (as Rosalind Brett), earned the wrath of Canadian readers when her heroine, while paddling a canoe in a Canadian lake, dropped her "

External links

Rosalind Brett's Webpage in Fantastic Fiction's Website

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[1] Hsu-Ming Teo - Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels 2012- Page 203 "“Rosalind Brett” (Lillian Warren), one of the most popular postwar authors for Mills & Boon, tapped into a growing trend when she wrote stories about independent young women who went out to the sunlit plains of Africa, where they met, ..."

[2] The Writer's Directory, 1998-2000 - Page 136 Miranda H. Ferrara - 1995 "Also writes as Rosalind Brett, Celine Conway. British. GENRES: Romance/Historical. PUBLICATIONS: (as Rosalind Brett) Green Leaves, 1947; (as Rosalind Brett) Pagan Interlude, 1947; (as Rosalind Brett) Secret Marriage, 1947; (as Rosalind ..."

[3] Abby Gaines - - Her So-Called Fiancé 2012 It was written by Kathryn Blair, who also wrote as Rosalind Brett and Celine Conway (though it took me a while to figure out my three favorite authors were the same person!). I loved those books! They set such high ideals for the kind of ..."

[4] Joseph McAleer Passion’s Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon Print publication date: 1999 Print ISBN 9780198204558 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204558.001.0001 08 Chapter PF "the 1950s, Lillian Warren (as Rosalind Brett), earned the wrath of Canadian readers when her heroine, while paddling a canoe in a Canadian lake, dropped her "