Alice Nina Hoysradt, née Conarain (born in

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, Ireland) was an Irish writer of over 70

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s as her maiden name Nina Conarain and under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Hoy from 1933 to 1980.

Biography

Alice Nina Conarain was born in

, Ireland. She married Mr. Hoysradt. She worked as a nurse, secretary-receptionist, and staff member of the '' Daily News'' in

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, England, United Kingdom. She started publishing romance novels in the 1930s at

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under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Hoy, she also wrote as Nina Conarain at

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Bibliography

As Elizabeth Hoy

* ''Love in Apron Strings'' (1933) * ''Roses in the Snow'' (1936) * ''Sally in the Sunshine'' (1937) aka ''Nurse Tennant'' * ''Crown For a Lady'' (1937) * ''Shadow of the Hills'' (1938) * ''Stars over Egypt'' (1938) * ''You Belong to Me'' (1938) * ''You Took My Heart'' (1939) aka ''Doctor Garth'' * ''June for Enchantment'' (1939) * ''Mirage for Love'' (1939) * ''Runaway Bride'' (1939) * ''Enchanted Wilderness'' (1940) * ''Heart, Take Care!'' (1940) * ''It Had to be You'' (1940) * ''You Can't Lose Yesterday'' (1940) * ''I'll Find You Again'' (1941) * ''Take Love Easy'' (1941) * ''Come Back My Dream'' (1942) aka ''Nurse in Training'' * ''Hearts at Random'' (1942) * ''Proud Citadel'' (1942) * ''Ask Only Love'' (1943) * ''One Step from Heaven'' (1943) * ''You Can't Live Alone'' (1943) * ''Give Me New Wings'' (1944) * ''Sylvia Sorelle'' (1944) * ''Heart's Haven'' (1945) * ''It's Wise to Forget'' (1945) * ''Dear Stranger'' (1946) * ''Sword in the Sun'' (1946) * ''To Win a Paradise'' (1947) * ''The Dark Loch'' (1948) * ''Though I Bid Farewell'' (1948) * ''Background to Hyacinthe'' (1949) * ''Immortal Morning'' (1949) * ''Silver Maiden'' (1951) * ''The Web of Love'' (1951) * ''When You Have Found Me'' (1951) * ''White Hunter'' (1951) * ''The Enchanted'' (1952) * ''Fanfare for Lovers'' (1953) * ''If Love Were Wise'' (1954) * ''So Loved and So Far'' (1954) * ''Who Loves Believes'' (1954) * ''Snare the Wild Heart'' (1955) * ''Young Doctor Kirkdene'' (1955) * ''Because of Doctor Danville'' (1956) * ''My Heart Has Wings'' (1957) * ''Do Something Dangerous'' (1958) * ''City of Dreams'' (1959) * ''Dark Horse, Dark Rider'' (1960) * ''Dear Fugitive'' (1960) * ''The Door Into the Rose Garden'' (1961) * ''Heart, Have You No Wisdom?'' (1962) * ''Her Wild Voice Singing'' (1963) * ''Homeward the Heart'' (1964) * ''Flowering Desert'' (1965) * ''The Faithless One'' (1966) * ''Honeymoon Holiday'' (1967) * ''My Secret Love'' (1967) * ''Be More Than Dreams'' (1968) * ''Music I Heard with You'' (1969/07) * ''It Happened in Paris'' (1970/03) * ''Into a Golden Land'' (1971/04) * ''African Dream'' (1971/09) * ''Immortal Flower'' (1972/03) * ''That Island Summer'' (1973/01) * ''The Girl in the Great Valley'' (1973/12) * ''Shadows on the Sand'' (1974/07) * ''The Blue Jacaranda'' (1975/04) * ''Black Opal'' (1975/11) * ''When the Dream Fades'' (1980)

As Nina Conarain

* ''Give Me New Wings'' (1945) * ''Shatter the Rainbow'' (1946) * ''For Love's Sake Only'' (1951)

References and sources

1898 births 1982 deaths Writers from Dublin (city) Irish romantic fiction writers Pseudonymous women writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers 20th-century Irish women writers {{ireland-writer-stub