Tilly Armstrong

Tilly Armstrong
Born8 April 1927
Sutton, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Died6 July 2010(2010-07-06) (aged 83)
Carshalton, England, United Kingdom
OccupationNovelist
Writing career
Pen nameTania Langley,
Kate Alexander
Period1978–1998
Genreromance

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.

Biography

Armstrong was born on 8 April 1927 in Sutton, Surrey.

She loved to write and used to make up stories to tell her siblings.

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 later one of its vice-presidents.

Armstrong was also the founding President of Sutton Writers and worked for Nonsuch.

She died aged 83, on 6 July 2010, at Carshalton, England, UK.

Bibliography

Armstrong wrote under her own name and under two pseudonyms.

As Tilly Armstrong

As Tania Langley

As Kate Alexander

References

  1. ↑ Vasudevan, Aruna; Henderson, Lesley; Mussell, Kay; Light, Alison (1994). Twentieth-century romance and historical writers (3rd ed.). London Detroit (Mich.) Washington (D.C.): St James press. p. 8. ISBN 1558621806.
  2. 1 2 3 "Tilly Armstrong (1927-2010)". Romantic Novelists' Association. Archived from the original on 30 January 2012.
  3. ↑ "Author: Tilly Armstrong". BookerWorm. 20 January 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  4. ↑ "Past RNA Officers". The Romantic Novelists' Association. Archived from the original on 13 February 2009.
  5. ↑ Tilly Armstrong at fantasticfiction