Ruby M. Ayres (1881–1955)
Auteur de The Second Honeymoon
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Ruby M. Ayres, a picture postcard autographed by the author
Séries
Œuvres de Ruby M. Ayres
Afterglow 5 exemplaires
Come to my wedding 4 exemplaires
The road that bends 3 exemplaires
In the day's march 3 exemplaires
Broken 3 exemplaires
Charity's chosen 2 exemplaires
THE LITTL'ST LOVER 2 exemplaires
The planter of the tree 2 exemplaires
The Classic Works of Ruby M. Ayres 2 exemplaires
Man made the town 2 exemplaires
The big fellah 2 exemplaires
The man the women loved 1 exemplaire
Young is my love 1 exemplaire
Week-end woman 1 exemplaire
...Big Ben 1 exemplaire
...The little sinner 1 exemplaire
Lovers 1 exemplaire
För kärleks skull 1 exemplaire
L'Attente passionnée 1 exemplaire
L'albero in fiore 1 exemplaire
The moon in the water 1 exemplaire
Our avenue, and other stories 1 exemplaire
The uphill road 1 exemplaire
Spoilt music 1 exemplaire
Overheard 1 exemplaire
Candle light 1 exemplaire
The man without a heart 1 exemplaire
The romance of a rogue 1 exemplaire
So many miles 1 exemplaire
The Matherson marriage 1 exemplaire
Always to-morrow 1 exemplaire
The winds of the world 1 exemplaire
The scar 1 exemplaire
Between you and me 1 exemplaire
Than this world dreams of 1 exemplaire
Feather 1 exemplaire
Compromise 1 exemplaire
Too much together 1 exemplaire
Somebody else 1 exemplaire
From this day forward 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Pocock, Ruby Mildred Ayres
- Autres noms
- Ayres, Ruby M.
- Date de naissance
- 1881-01-28
- Date de décès
- 1955-11-14
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Weybridge, Surrey, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Harrow, London, England, UK
- Courte biographie
- Ruby Mildred Ayres was born on 28 January 1881 in Watford, Hertfordshire, the third daughter of the marriege formed by Alice (née Whitford) and Charles Pryor Ayres, a London-based architect. In 1909 she married Reginald William Pocock, a insurance broker, and they lived in Harrow until his death in a train accident. As widow without childrens, she moved to her sister's home at Weybridge, Surrey.
She started to write as a girl, and her first story was published in a magazine shortly after her marriage, and in 1912 she published her first novel, Castles in Spain. In September 1915, with her first popular success, Richard Chatterton, V.C. (which sold over 50,000 copies in the first three years), she moved publishing houses to Hodder and Stoughton, where she remained until her death in 1955. She wrote over 150 novels and serialised works. Several of her works became films and she did screenwriting for Society for Sale among others. She corresponded with Douglas Sladen, and also was was possibly an inspiration for the P. G. Wodehouse character Rosie M. Banks. She died on 14 November 1955 in a nursing home in Weybridge, aged 74, of a combination of pneumonia and a cerebral thrombosis. She was cremated four days later at Golders Green in north London.
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 85
- Membres
- 173
- Popularité
- #123,688
- Évaluation
- 2.6
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 118
- Favoris
- 1
Priscilla covered her ears with her hands. "Oh, stop, please stop...don't laugh like that. I've said I'm sorry...I am sorry---I'd do anything to wipe out what's happened, but I can't marry you. I can't..."
And suddenly she was weeping, for herself, for him, and for the tragedy she herself had made.
But now her tears did not touch him; perhaps there was nothing in the world just then that could have melted the hardness around his heart; he was only conscious of a fierce longing to hurt her, to make her suffer as he himself was suffering.
His hands were clenched by his sides so that the knuckles stood out white, and when he spoke there was something brutal in his voice that made her shrink back almost as if she was afraid he would strike her...… (plus d'informations)