Grace Rutherford
BornGrace Tomlins
1906
Died1989
Pen nameEleanor Farnes
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Period1935–1979
GenreRomance
Spouseyes
Children2

Eleanor Farnes was the pen name of Grace Rutherford, a British writer of over 60 romance novels at Mills & Boon from 1935 to 1979.

Career

Eleanor Farnes lived in England, but her family had a home in Spain, where she also spend part of each year. She also traveled widely in Europe, South Africa, and North America. She started to write after marrying and having 2 children.[1][2]

Personal life

Her hobbies included the restoring of old houses and traveling, that had brought the charm and beauty of exotic locales to her novels, like Spain, Italy or Switzerland, that she knew personally. She also wrote doctor/nurse romances.[1][2]

Bibliography

Source:[3]

Single novels

Collections in collaboration

References and sources

  1. ^ a b James Vinson; Daniel Lane Kirkpatrick (1982), Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers, Macmillan Publishers Limited, p. 898
  2. ^ a b Lesley Henderson; Daniel Lane Kirkpatrick (1990), Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers, St. James Press, p. 856
  3. ^ Eleanor Farnes at Fantastic Fiction