Clare Darcy was the pseudonym used by the American

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

Mary Deasy (1914–1978) for her

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novels, i.e., novels set in

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. She was born on May 20, 1914 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died in Ohio in May 1978. A number of the manuscripts of her Regency novels (as well as of her other works), along with notebooks, scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence, book reviews, etc., are in the collection of the Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University, whose website (see link below) provides further information about the Deasy/Darcy collection.

Works published under the pseudonym Clare Darcy

*''Georgina'' (1971) * ''Cecily: Or a Young Lady of Quality'' (1972) * ''Lydia: Or Love in Town'' * ''Victoire'' (1974) * ''Lady Pamela'' (1975) *''Allegra'' (1976) * ''Elyza'' (1976) * ''Regina'' (1976) * ''Cressida'' (1977) * ''Eugenia'' (1977) * ''Gwendolen'' (1978) * ''Rolande'' (1978) * ''Letty'' (1980) * ''Caroline and Julia'' (1982)

External links and references

Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Center - Mary Deasy (Clare Darcy)

fantastic fiction - Clare Darcy

book crossing - Clare Darcy
20th-century American novelists Novelists from Ohio 1914 births 1978 deaths American romantic fiction writers American historical novelists Women romantic fiction writers American women novelists 20th-century American women writers Women historical novelists Writers of historical fiction set in the modern age {{US-novelist-1910s-stub