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. For Anne, it is the glorious promise of a future with the man who will dare her to reveal her deepest secrets.before she can give him all her heart.Mary Balogh (born Mary Jenkins on 24 March 1944) is a Welsh-Canadian novelist writing historical romance, born and raised in Swansea. For Sydnam, it is a chance to heal the pain of the past. Now the unwed single mother and war-scarred veteran must make a decision that could forever alter their lives. Unable to resist the passion that has rescued them both from loneliness, Anne and Sydnam share an afternoon of exquisite lovemaking. Yet almost from the moment Anne first appears on the cliffs, he senses in this lovely stranger a kindred soul, and between these two wary hearts, desire stirs. For single mother and teacher Anne Jewell, newly arrived with her son at a sprawling estate in Wales on the invitation of an influential friend, Sydnam Butler is a man whose sorrows-and passions-run deeper than she could have ever imagined.Īs steward of a remote seaside manor, Sydnam lives a reclusive existence far from the pity and disdain of others. She spies him in the deepening dusk of a Wales evening-a lone figure of breathtaking strength and masculinity, his handsome face branded by a secret pain. At the center of this spellbinding novel is Anne Jewell, a teacher haunted by a scandalous past.until she meets a man who teaches her the most important lesson of all: nothing is simple when it comes to love. Bestselling author Mary Balogh returns to the elegance and sensuality of Regency England as she continues the enthralling story of four remarkable women-friends and teachers at Miss Martin's School for Girls.

Simply love by mary balogh