"The North Tower" in Moonlight Lovers (1993)."The Wrong Door" in Rakes and Rogues (1993)."The Substitute Guest" in Tokens of Love (1993)."The Porcelain Madonna" in A Regency Christmas IV (1992)**."The Dark Rider" in Full-Moon Magic (1992)."The Treasure Hunt" in A Regency Summer (1992)."A Waltz Among the Stars" in A Regency Valentine II (1992)."The Best Christmas Ever" in A Regency Christmas III (1991)**."Golden Rose" in A Regency Valentine (1991)."Playing House" in A Regency Christmas II (1990)*."The Star of Bethlehem" in A Regency Christmas (1989)*.More than a Mistress (2000) (Balogh's first novel to be published initially in hardcover format).The Secret Mistress (2011) (Series Prequel).A Matter of Class (2009 in paperback, 2010 in hardcover).also published as Desire After Dark as a Prince Matchabelli perfume promotion.She is the author of more than 60 published novels and over 30 novellas, and has met with critical success.īalogh has received numerous awards, including a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Regency Short Stories in 1993 and has appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. Mary Balogh won the Romantic Times Award for best new Regency writer in that year. A Masked Deception was accepted by Signet and published in 1985. All enjoy passion, and often a marriage and/or a sensual connection precedes recognition of love.īalogh began her writing career in 1983, when she wrote her first novel A Masked Deception in the evenings at the kitchen table while home and family functioned around her. Some are courtesans, illegitimate, "fallen" or "ruined" women. Although she writes historical romances, Mary Balogh's heroines are often not "ladies". The vast majority of Balogh's novels have been set in Regency or Georgian England or Wales. Writing career Īs an adult, Balogh discovered the world of the Regency romance as written by Georgette Heyer.
She has three children and five grandchildren. She taught high-school English for a number of years, and rose to the level of school principal.
There, she met and married her Canadian husband Robert Balogh, a coroner and ambulance driver, and settled in the small prairie town of Kipling, Saskatchewan. She moved to Canada on a two-year teaching contract in 1967 after leaving university. Mary Jenkins was born and raised in Swansea, Wales, daughter of Mildred Double, a homemaker, and Arthur Jenkins, a signwriter and painter. Her historical fiction is set in the Regency era (1811–1820) or the wider Georgian era (1714–1830).īiography Personal life In 1967, she moved to Canada to start a teaching career, married a local coroner and settled in Kipling, Saskatchewan, where she eventually became a school principal. Mary Balogh (born Mary Jenkins on 24 March 1944) is a Welsh-Canadian novelist writing historical romance, born and raised in Swansea.
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