Curtis Yorke

{{short description|Scottish writer}}

Curtis Yorke, the pen name of Susan Rowley Richmond Lee (1854 – 1930), was a Scottish writer.

The daughter of John Jex Long, she was born Susan Rowley Long in Scotland and was educated in Glasgow. She married John Wilson Richmond Lee, a mining engineer. The couple moved to Kensington. She published her first novel That Little Girl in 1886{{cite web |url=http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=767 |title=Author Information |work=At the Circulating Library}} and went on to publish almost 50 titles.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eSIhzKnNUf4C&pg=PA519 |title=Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins |page=519 |last=Room |first=Adrian |year=2012 |isbn=978-0786457632}}

Selected works

  • Hush!: A Novel (1888), 3 volumes, published by Richard Bentley
  • Dudley. A Story Of Modern Life (1888) published by Jarrold & Sons
  • The Wild Ruthvens: A Home Story (1889) published by Jarrold & Sons
  • The Mystery of Belgrave Square (1889) published by F.V. White
  • A Romance of Modern London: A Novel (1892), 3 volumes, published by F.V. White
  • His Heart to Win (1893) published by Jarrold & Sons
  • Between the Silences and Other Stories (1894) published by Jarrold & Sons
  • The Medlicotts: An Uneventful Family Chronicle (1895) published by Jarrold & Sons
  • Because of the Child: A Story without a Plot (1897) published by Jarrold & Sons
  • A Flirtation with Truth (1897) published by John Macqueen
  • Carpathia Knox: A Novel (1900) published by Jarrold & Sons
  • Only Betty (1907) published by John Long{{cite journal|journal=The Athenaeum|date=31 August 1907|issue=4166|title=Review of Only Betty by Curtis Yorke|page=233|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__I_PcOFSw8C&pg=PA233}}
  • All about Judy (1927)

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