Tilly Bagshawe
Tilly Bagshawe | |
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| Born | Matilda Emily Bagshawe 12 June 1973 London, England, UK |
| Pen name | Tilly Bagshawe |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 2005–present |
| Genre | Chick-lit |
| Spouse | Robin Nydes |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Louise Mensch (sister) |
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Matilda Emily "Tilly" Bagshawe (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
Born on 12 June 1973 in Lambeth Hospital, London,[1] Bagshawe is one of three daughters born to Nicholas Wilfrid Bagshawe and his wife, Daphne Margaret (née Triggs).[2] Her father comes from a family of Roman Catholic gentry.[3] 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,[4] 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.[5] Her older sister is Louise Bagshawe Mensch, a chick lit author and former Conservative Member of Parliament. She has another sister Alice and a brother, James.[6]
She was educated at Woldingham School, Surrey, and while there, she became pregnant. At seventeen, she was a single mother of a daughter, Persephone (aka Sefi), 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.[7]
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
Novels
- 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 Bachelor (2016)
Sidney Sheldon Series of novels
- Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game (2009/Aug).
- Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness (2010/Jun).
- Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the Dark (2012)
- Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory (2013)
- Sidney Sheldon's Chasing Tomorrow (2014/Sep)
- Sidney Sheldon's Reckless (2015)
- Sidney Sheldon's The Silent Widow(2018)
M. B. Shaw Novels
- Murder at the Mill (2017) [8]
References
- ^ "Births". The Times. 13 June 1973. p. 1.
- ^ "Marriages". The Times. 23 September 1969. p. 12.
- ^ "The Landed Gentry of Britain". Wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
- ^ David Cordingly (1996), Jane Turner (ed.), "Stanfield, Clarkson" Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan Publishers
- ^ The Catholic Who's Who and yearbook, Volume 33, 1940, p. 432
- ^ Scott, Caroline (6 March 2005). "Relative Values: Tilly and Louise Bagshawe". The Sunday Times. London.
- ^ Haynes, Lorien (23 May 2009). "'Sefi is the best mistake I ever made'". Daily Mail. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- ^ "Bagshawe to write pen-name 'cosy crime' for Trapeze". The Bookseller.
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