Margaret Pedler
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Margaret Pedler was a British novelist, who wrote popular works of romantic fiction
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, and published several songs for which she wrote both the music and lyrics. Over her career as a best-selling writer, from 1917 to 1947, she produced 28 novels.
Romance novel
The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late...
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Biography
Initially Pedler studied piano and singing at the Royal Academy of MusicRoyal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
, and published several songs for which she wrote both the music and lyrics. Over her career as a best-selling writer, from 1917 to 1947, she produced 28 novels.
Works
- The Splendid Folly: 1917
- The House of Dreams-Come-True: 1919
- The Hermit of Far End: 1920
- The Moon out of Reach: 1921(?)
- The Lamp of Fate: 1921
- The Vision of Desire: 1922(?)
- The Barbarian Lover: 1923
- Waves of Destiny: 1924
- Red Ashes: 1925
- Tomorrow's Tangle: 1926
- Yesterday's Harvest: 1926
- Bitter Heritage: 1928
- The Guarded Halo: 1929
- Fire of Youth: 1930
- Kindled Flame: 1931(?)
- Desert Sand: 1932
- The Greater Courage: 1933
- Pitiless Choice: 1933
- Distant Dawn: 1934 – published in England as "Green Judgment"
- The Shining Cloud: 1935(?)
- Checkered Paths: 1935(?)
- Flame in the Wind: 1937
- No Armour Against Fate: 1938(?)
- Blind Loyalty: 1940
- Not Heaven Itself: 1941
- Then Came the Test: 1942
- No Gifts from Chance: 1944
- Unless Two Be Agreed: 1947