Tilly Armstrong (8 April 1927 – 6 July 2010) was a British writer of
romance novels from 1978 to 1998. She also wrote as Tania Langley and Kate Alexander.
Armstrong was born in
Sutton, Surrey
Sutton is the principal town in the London Borough of Sutton in South London, England. It lies on the lower slopes of the North Downs, and is the administrative headquarters of the Outer London borough. It is south-south west of Charing Cross ...
. Before she began her writing career, she worked for the
World Health Organization in
Geneva, then in Canada for 18 months, and then became the personal secretary to the Chairman of
British Steel,
Lord Melchett.
She was the fourteenth elected Chairman (1987–1989) of the
Romantic Novelists' Association,
and was one of its vice-presidents, until her death at 83, on 6 July 2010, at
Carshalton,
England,
UK.
Bibliography
Armstrong wrote under her own name and under two pseudonyms.
As Tilly Armstrong
*''Lightly Like a Flower'' (1978)
*''Come Live With Me'' (1979)
*''Joy Runs High'' (1979)
*''Limited Engagement'' (1980)
*''Summer Tangle'' (1983)
*''Small Town Girl'' (1984)
*''Pretty Penny'' (1985)
As Tania Langley
*''Dawn'' (1980)
*''Mademoiselle Madeleine'' (1981)
*''The London Linnet'' (1985)
*''Genevra'' (1987)
As Kate Alexander
*''Fields of Battle'' (1981)
*''Friends and Enemies'' (1982)
*''Paths of Peace'' (1984)
*''Bright Tomorrows'' (1985)
*''Songs of War'' (1987)
*''Great Possessions'' (1989)
*''The Shining Country'' (1991)
*''The House of Hope'' (1992)
*''Voices of Song'' (1994)
*''The Anthology of Love and Romance'' (edited, 1994) (including stories by
Rosamunde Pilcher,
Georgette Heyer,
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and interior designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray ...
''et al'')
*''Family Trees'' (1995)
*''Love and Duty' (1998)
References
1927 births
2010 deaths
British romantic fiction writers
People from Sutton, London
20th-century British novelists
Pseudonymous women writers
20th-century British women writers
20th-century pseudonymous writers
{{UK-novelist-stub