Tilly Bagshawe

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Tilly Bagshawe
BornMatilda Emily Mary Bagshawe
(1973-06-12) 12 June 1973 (age 50)
London, England, United Kingdom
Pen nameTilly Bagshawe
OccupationJournalist, writer
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Period2005–present
GenreChick-lit
SpouseRobin Nydes
Children3
RelativesLouise Mensch (sister)
Website
tillybagshawe.com

Matilda Emily Mary "Tilly" Bagshawe[1][2] (born 12 June 1973) is a British freelance journalist and author. She is best known for her books in the vein of best-selling American author Sidney Sheldon, notably Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game and Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness.

Life and work[edit]

Born on 12 June 1973 in Lambeth Hospital, London,[3] Bagshawe is one of three daughters born to Nicholas Wilfrid Bagshawe and his wife, Daphne Margaret (née Triggs).[4] Her father is from the Bagshawe family of Roman Catholic gentry. They originally hailed from Wormhill Hall, near Buxton, Derbyshire, and Oakes-in-Norton, near Sheffield.[5][6] Her great-grandfather was the marine artist Joseph Ridgard Bagshawe, who was himself grandson of one of the 19th century's most renowned marine artists, Clarkson Stanfield,[7] and a nephew of Edward Gilpin Bagshawe, Catholic Bishop of Nottingham. Her paternal grandmother, Mary Frideswide, was the daughter of Charles Robertson, a stockbroker and benefactor of St Philip's Priory, Begbroke and one of the co-founders of Westminster Cathedral.[8] Her older sister is Louise Mensch, a chick lit author and former Conservative Member of Parliament. She has another sister and a brother.[9]

She was educated at Woldingham School, Surrey, and while there, she became pregnant. At seventeen, she was a single mother of a daughter, but she finished her studies and at the age of eighteen, she went up to St John's College, Cambridge, with her ten-month-old daughter in tow.[citation needed]

Married to Robin Nydes, a US businessman, she lives between homes in London and Los Angeles, with three children. Now a freelance journalist and novelist, Bagshawe is a regular contributor to The Sunday Times, Daily Mail and other British publications.[citation needed]

Bibliography[edit]

Novels[edit]

  • Adored (2005/Jul) (ISBN 0-446-57688-3).
  • Showdown (2006).
  • Do Not Disturb (2008).
  • Flawless (2009).
  • Scandalous (2010).
  • Fame (2011)
  • Temptation (2012)
  • The Inheritance (2014)
  • The Show (2015)
  • The Bachelor (2016)
  • Friends and Rivals

Sidney Sheldon series[edit]

M. B. Shaw novels[edit]

  • Murder at the Mill (2017) [10]

References[edit]

  1. ^ The Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991 Supplement (up to 31 December 1992), Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 5
  2. ^ "Matilda Emily Mary BAGSHAWE-NYDES - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Births". The Times. 13 June 1973. p. 1.
  4. ^ "Marriages". The Times. 23 September 1969. p. 12.
  5. ^ Burke's Landed Gentry, eighteenth edition, vol. 1, Peter Townend, 1965, Bagshawe of Wormhill and Oakes-in-Norton pedigree
  6. ^ "The Landed Gentry of Britain". Wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  7. ^ David Cordingly (1996), Jane Turner (ed.), "Stanfield, Clarkson" Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan Publishers
  8. ^ The Catholic Who's Who and yearbook, Volume 33, 1940, p. 432
  9. ^ Scott, Caroline (6 March 2005). "Relative Values: Tilly and Louise Bagshawe". The Sunday Times. London.
  10. ^ "Bagshawe to write pen-name 'cosy crime' for Trapeze". The Bookseller.
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