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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