Curtis Yorke
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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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Category:Scottish women novelists
Category:Pseudonymous women writers