Romantic Novelists' Association
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The Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) is an association of romantic fiction writers in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1960, mainly through the efforts of Denise Robins (first president), Barbara Cartland (first vice-president), Vivian Stuart (first elected chairman), and other authors like Elizabeth Goudge, Netta Muskett, Catherine Cookson, Rosamunde Pilcher and Lucilla Andrews.
The RNA runs an annual conference for members, today has around 700, and supports a number of regional chapters, who meet regularly to discuss issues of concern to writers of romantic fiction. The organisation also runs the New Writers' Scheme, under which unpublished authors receive an appraisal of their work from an experienced member of the Association.
Contents
Awards
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Staff
Officers
Presidents
- 2011–Present: Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming Fforde (aka Katie Fforde)
- 1986-2011: Diane Margaret Pearson McClelland (aka Diane Pearson)
- 1966-1986: Ida Cook (aka Mary Burchell)[3]
- 1960-1966: Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson (aka Denise Chesterton, Denise Robins, Hervey Hamilton, Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Julia Kane) [3]
Vice-Presidents
- Current Vice-Presidents
- Marina Oliver (aka Sally James, Donna Hunt, Bridget Thorn, Vesta Hathaway, Livvy West, Laura Hart)
- Nancy Jean Buckingham Sawyer (Nancy Buckingham, Christina Abbey, Erica Quest, Nancy John, Hilary London)
- Former Vice-Presidents
- Elizabeth Margaret Stevens O'Rourke (aka Betty O'Rourke)
- Tilly Armstrong (aka Tania Langley, Kate Alexander)
- Sheila O'Nions Walsh (aka Sheila Walsh, Sophie Leyton)
- Hilda Pressley Nickson (aka Hilda Nickson, Hilda Pressley, Hilary Preston)
- Noreen Ford Dilcock (aka Norrey Ford, Jill Christian, Christian Walford)
- Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge (aka Elizabeth Goudge)
- Evadne Price (aka Helen Zenna Smith )
- Netta Rachel Muskett (aka Netta Muskett, Anne Hill)
- Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland (aka Barbara Cartland)
- Dorothy Delius Black MacLeish (aka Dorothy Black)
- Honorary Vice-Presidents
- Ida Crowe Pollock (aka Joan M. Allen, Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler, Ida Pollock, Marguerite Bell)
- Associate Vice-Presidents
- Rosemary de Courcey
- Linda Evans
- Sue Fletcher
- John Hale
- Michael Legat
- Judy Piatkus
- Karin Stoecker
- Jane Wood
Committee
Committee Chairmen
- 2013-2015: Pia Tapper Fenton (aka Christina Courtenay)
- 2011-2013: Anne Ashurst, née Bushell (aka Sara Craven)
- 2009-2011: Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming Fforde (aka Katie Fforde)
- 2007-2009: Catherine Jones (aka Kate Lace, Annie Jones)
- 2005-2007: Jenny Haddon (aka Sophie Weston)
- 2003-2005: Anthea Kenyon
- 2001-2003: Jean Chapman
- 1999-2001: Norma Curtis
- 1997-1999: Angela Arney
- 1995-1997: Elizabeth Mary Oakleigh-Walker Buchan (aka Elizabeth Buchan)
- 1993-1995: Jean Innes Saunders (Jean Saunders, Jean Innes, Rowena Summers, Sally Blake, Jodi Nicol, Rachel Moore)
- 1991-1993: Marina Oliver (aka Sally James, Donna Hunt, Bridget Thorn, Vesta Hathaway, Livvy West, Laura Hart)
- 1989-1991: Margaret Pemberton (aka Maggie Hudson, Carris Carlisle, Christina Harland, Rebecca Dean)
- 1987-1989: Tilly Armstrong (aka Tania Langley, Kate Alexander)
- 1985-1987: Sheila O'Nions Walsh (aka Sheila Walsh, Sophie Leyton)
- 1983-1985: Diana Morgan
- 1981-1983: Contance Fecher Heaven (aka Constance Fecher, Constance Heaven, Christina Merlin)
- 1979-1981: Clare Cavendish
- 1977-1979: Elizabeth Fancourt Harrison (aka Elizabeth Harrison)
- 1975-1977: Nancy Jean Buckingham Sawyer (Nancy Buckingham, Christina Abbey, Erica Quest, Nancy John, Hilary London)
- 1973-1975: Leila Antionette Sterling Mackinlay (aka Leila Mackinlay, Brenda Grey)
- 1971-1973: Alice Mary Chetwynd Humphrey Ley (aka Alice Chetwynd Ley)
- 1969-1971: Lois Dorothea Low (aka Dorothy Mackie Low, Lois Paxton, Zoë Cass)
- 1967-1969: Marjorie Bell Marshall (aka Stella March)
- 1965-1967: June Sylvia Thimblethorpe (aka Sylvia Thorpe)
- 1963-1965: Noreen Ford Dilcock (aka Norrey Ford, Jill Christian, Christian Walford)
- 1961-1963: Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann (aka Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V.A. Stuart, William Stuart Long, Robyn Stuart)
Current Committee
- Chairman
- Pia Tapper Fenton (aka Christina Courtenay)
- Vice-Chairman
- Hon Treasurer
- Jenny Haddon (aka Sophie Weston)
- Hon Deputy Treasurer
- Priscilla Jane Gordon-Cumming Osborn (aka Jane Gordon-Cumming)
- Hon Secretary
- Others
- Angela Arney
- Janet Gover
- Nicola Cornick
- Pia Tapper Fenton (aka Christina Courtenay)
- Melanie Hilton (aka Louise Allen)
- Linda Hooper
- Jenny Harper
- Jan Jones
- Myra Kersner
- Catherine King
- Sue Moorcroft
Honor Life Members
- Sarah Broadhurst
- Edwin Buckhalter
- David G. Hessayon (aka Dr. D.G. Hessayon)
- Caroline Sheldon
- June Sylvia Thimblethorpe (aka Sylvia Thorpe)
References
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bookworm on the Net online at bookwormonthenet.blogspot.com (accessed 4 April 2008)
