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Eileen Ainsworth Ramsay
BornEileen Ainsworth
(1940-12-16)16 December 1940
Ayrshire, Scotland
Died18 January 2023(2023-01-18) (aged 82)
Pen nameEileen Ainsworth Ramsay;
Eileen Ramsay
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Period1985–2023
GenreRomance, Children's fiction
SpouseIan Ramsay
Children2
Website
eileenramsay.co.uk

Eileen Ramsay (née Ainsworth; 16 December 1940 – 18 January 2023)[1] was a British writer of romance novels. She wrote 18 books from 1985.

Biography

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Eileen Ainsworth was born in Ayrshire, Scotland on 16 December 1940. After graduating[where?] she went to teach in the United States for 18 years. She married Ian Ramsay, a Scottish scientist, and they had two children. They returned to Scotland, and after teaching for a few years she became a full-time writer.[2]

Ramsay was elected the twenty-seventh chairman (2015–2017) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.[3]

Ramsay died of pneumonia on 18 January 2023 at the age of 82.[4]

Bibliography

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As Eileen Ainsworth Ramsay

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Romance novel

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  • The Mysterious Marquis (1985)

As Eileen Ramsay

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Romance novels

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  • The Broken Gate (1994)
  • The Dominie's Lassie (1995)
  • Butterflies in December (1995)
  • The Quality of Mercy (1997)
  • Walnut Shell Days (1997)
  • Harvest of Courage (1998)
  • Never Call It Loving (1998)
  • The Wings of Friendship (2001)
  • The Feein' Market (2002)
  • Lace for a Lady (2002)
  • Someday, Somewhere (2003)
  • A Way of Forgiving (2004)
  • The Stuff of Dreams (2005)
  • Rainbow's End (2006)
  • Henriqueta's treasure (2008)
  • Love Changes Everything (2012)

Flowers of Scotland

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  1. Rich Girl, Poor Girl (2017)
  2. The Farm Girl's Dream (2017)
  3. A Pinch of Salt (2017)

Children's fiction

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  • Danger by Gaslight (1998)

Anthologies

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  • Sakura and other stories (2012)

References and sources

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  1. ^ Eileen Ramsay obituary
  2. ^ Eileen Ramsay's Biography
  3. ^ Past RNA Officers, archived from the original on 11 March 2016, retrieved 10 June 2016
  4. ^ Brown, Lauren (3 March 2023). "Tributes paid to author Eileen Ramsay after death at 82". The Bookseller. Retrieved 3 March 2023.