Elsie Lee (1912–1987)
Auteur de The Nabob's Widow
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) aka Jane Gordon, Lee Sheridan, Elsie Cromwell, Norman Daniels
Œuvres de Elsie Lee
Muscle Beach Party [novelization] 2 exemplaires
Doctor's Office 1 exemplaire
The Reluctant Widow 1 exemplaire
Sam Benedict: cast the first stone 1 exemplaire
2nd or Second Easy Gourmet Cookbook 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Lee, Elsie Williams
- Autres noms
- Sheridan, Lee
- Date de naissance
- 1912-01-24
- Date de décès
- 1987-02-08
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Hollywood, California, USA - Études
- Swarthmore College
Pratt Institute - Professions
- librarian
office manager
executive secretary
writer
romance novelist - Organisations
- Society of Friends
Authors Guild of Authors League of America
Mensa - Courte biographie
- Elsie Lee, née Williams, was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Samuel Byron Williams, Jr., a telephone engineer, and his wife Helen.
Elsie attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and the Pratt Institute in New York. In 1941, she married Morton Lee. She worked as a librarian, executive secretary, and office manager. She mentioned in her book Elsie Lee's Book of Simple Gourmet Cookery (1971) that she lived in Washington for six years, and in Hollywood for three. In the 1940s, she sold her first stories to the Ladies Home Journal, and she went on to publish some three dozen novels, many of them romance novels, as well as works of non-fiction. She used a variety of pseudonyms, including Elsie Cromwell, Norman Daniels, Jane Gordon, and Lee Sheridan. - Notice de désambigüisation
- aka Jane Gordon, Lee Sheridan, Elsie Cromwell, Norman Daniels
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Critiques
Marketed as a Gothic romance with a copyright date of 1969. Pleasant but not Elsie Lee's best.
Nonny is an oddball character. Early in Diplomatic Lover she convinces her roommate's foster brother to take her to bed. She's a virgin and she simply must have "lessons" from York, the outrageously handsome actor. Nonny ("Bambi" to the boys) got what she wanted from York: she needed to go from Nonny-no to Nonny-yes. What's more, she then needs a fourteen day sailing adventure with York to "get him out of her system." Do you think she succeeds? In a word, no. Of course not. After the loss of virginity and the sailing adventure are both out of the way, Nonny returns to a scandal at the office. Someone is leaking inside trader information and smuggling political information. As a translator for the British Embassy in Washington D.C. Nonny is brilliant and the perfect person to solve the mystery. She speaks a multitude of languages, including finances. She often gives her roommates advice on investments. In addition, her father is a New York City lawyer and her grandfather is a banker in Zurich. She only has one problem: blackmail. Someone knows of her torrid affair at sea and wants to expose her (literally). Aside, from being a little dated this was an okay read. Just not my style.… (plus d'informations)
A keeper shelf reread from the depths of my past. Elsie Lee wrote about self-assured women (who were not nurses or secretaries) witty men (who were not princes) sex and contemporary settings way before the rest of the pack. Fiona is the assistant to a fabled Hollywood astrologer although not necessarily a believer. She meets David, who it turns out is trying to prove that Fiona's employer is taking financial advantage of his beloved aunt. Their romance progresses as the mystery deepens. The Hollywood setting is fun with ditzy starlets and geniuses and comings and goings of the beautiful people. It's just a lovely entertaining read.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 44
- Membres
- 976
- Popularité
- #26,389
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 58
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 4
What nameless evil?
Silence Eddington had been given her name
by the old woman who had found her as a
motherless baby. Now Silence was nineteen,
lovely and alone, wondering what her future
might hold.
It seemed too good to be true she became companion to the mysteriously ailing
young heiress of Hazelhurst Grange. Here Silence was treated like a lady born and bred,her beauty and charm softening even the
harsh, handsome features of the master, the
strangely distant James Ffolliott.
How could she know that soon the love around her would turn to hate? How could she dream that she was being wrapped in the tentacles of evil reaching out from thenightmare past ...?
… (plus d'informations)