Elswyth Thane
1900 – 1984
An American author of highly acclaimed romance novels during her life-time, the novelist Elswyth Thane was extremely well regarded for her various contributions to the genre over the years that were extremely distinctive in both their style and their prose. Born Helen Elswyth Thane Ricker Beebe, she was also a novelist of historical fiction, as well as of romance novels, along with producing screenplay during her life-time as well. Covering huge time-frames within the course of her backlog of literature, she was known for taking large themes and ideas and spanning them out over the course of her books, showing a great capacity for scope and breadth.
Publication Order
Standalone Books
Riders of the Wind
1926
The Strength of the Hills
1926
Echo Answers
1927
His Elizabeth
1928
Cloth of Gold
1929
Bound to Happen
1930
The Tudor Wench
1932
England Was an Island Once
1940
From This Day Forward
1941
The Bird Who Made Good
1947
Melody
1950
Reluctant Farmer
1950
The Lost General
1953
Letter to a Stranger
1954
Washington's Lady
1954
The Family Quarrel
1959
Tryst
1962
Potomac Squire
1963
Queen's Folly
1965
Mount Vernon is Ours
1966
Mount Vernon Family
1968
Remember Today
1969
The Tudor Wench - A Play in Three Acts - Dramatized From an Episode in the Book of the Same Name
2011