Constance Heaven
Personal Information
Description
Constance Fecher was born on 6 August 1911 in Enfield, Middlesex, London, England, UK. She was educated at the Convent of Woodford Green, Essex since 1921 to 1928, when she joined to study at King's College London, where she obtained a Honours degree in English in 1931. In 1931, she also graduated at London College of Music. In 5 November 1939, she married William Heaven, who died in 1958. She was actress since 1939 to 1966. Published since 1963, she started writing historical novels with young protagonists under her maiden name Constance Fecher. Since 1972, she signed her novels more romantic, under her married name, Constance Heaven. She also used de pseudonym of Christina Merlin. In 1973, her novel "The House of Kuragin" was the Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award, and years later she was elected the eleventh Chairman (1981-1983) of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Connie passed away in in 1995, and continued writing until her death.
Books
Venture for a crown
A 14-year-old boy in Cromwell's England endangers himself and his family when he and his young royalist friends become involved in a plot to help the king escape from prison.
The Wildcliffe bird
The bohemian existance of Juliet and her father in 19th century Paris is abruptly ended one tragic night by a wrecklessly driven carriage. Juliet, left penniless, seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle and receives an offer of employment from Sybil Chartley as secretary to her crippled husband. She meets their son Richard, fighting to save the family pottery, hampered by the follies of his charming but irresponsible cousin Philip and the ruthless scheming of Lady Chartley. Juliet and Richard are drawn to each other, but their love suffers a stormy course against a background of family intrigue and industrial strife.
The Raging Fire
A passionate and compelling story of the love between a Russian village girl and a high-born English doctor, set in the dramatic years before and during the Russian Revolution. Galina Panova is a student at St. Petersburg University in the bitter winter of 1905 when she meets Simon Aylsham, the son of an English lord, who, after a tragic accident, gave up a promising career as a surgeon and fled to Russia. Their romance blossoms when he helps her nurse a young aristocrat back to health, and working with the poor and sick of St. Petersburg brings them closer together still. But the violent upheaveals of the coming years [tear them apart].
The leopard dagger
In London a 13-year-old boy, abandoned as a baby, has a chance to help the struggling Globe theater and look for clues to his identity.
King's legacy
Philip Ralegh finds his inheritance from his grandfather, Sir Walter Ralegh, as great a burden as Gilbert Dacre his knowledge of his bastardy... As Philip fights to preserve his identity in the brilliant and dissolute court of Charles II, so Gilbert seeks his identify in the rafish wold of the theatre and in the arms of the lovely Blanche... A bitter legacy from the past entangles the two young men in the life of the enigmatic Charles II - a world of passion, frivolity and dark intrigue.
The last Elizabethan
A portrait of the almost legendary Elizabethan -- poet, scientist, sailor, colonizer, courtier, historian.
The link boys
In 17th-century London young Tom finds that the ruffian responsible for his uncle's imprisonment and impending hanging is also the only person who can prevent the execution.