Tilly Armstrong (8 April 1927 – 6 July 2010) was a British writer of

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s from 1978 to 1998. She also wrote as Tania Langley and Kate Alexander. Armstrong was born in

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. Before she began her writing career, she worked for the

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, 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

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, and was one of its vice-presidents, until her death at 83, on 6 July 2010, at

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, UK.

Bibliography

Armstrong wrote under her own name and under two pseudonyms.

As Tilly Armstrong

*''Lightly Like a Flower'' (1978) *''Come Live With Me'' (1979) *''Joy Runs High'' (1979) *''Limited Engagement'' (1980) *''Summer Tangle'' (1983) *''Small Town Girl'' (1984) *''Pretty Penny'' (1985)

As Tania Langley

*''Dawn'' (1980) *''Mademoiselle Madeleine'' (1981) *''The London Linnet'' (1985) *''Genevra'' (1987)

As Kate Alexander

*''Fields of Battle'' (1981) *''Friends and Enemies'' (1982) *''Paths of Peace'' (1984) *''Bright Tomorrows'' (1985) *''Songs of War'' (1987) *''Great Possessions'' (1989) *''The Shining Country'' (1991) *''The House of Hope'' (1992) *''Voices of Song'' (1994) *''The Anthology of Love and Romance'' (edited, 1994) (including stories by

Rosamunde Pilcher Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (''née'' Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall. Her books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Early in her career she was publis ...

Georgette Heyer Georgette Heyer (; 16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ail ...

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''et al'') *''Family Trees'' (1995) *''Love and Duty' (1998)

References

1927 births 2010 deaths British romantic fiction writers People from Sutton, London 20th-century British novelists Pseudonymous women writers Writers from the London Borough of Sutton 20th-century British women writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers {{UK-novelist-stub