Tilly Bagshawe
{{short description|British freelance journalist and author|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}
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| birth_name = Matilda Emily Mary Bagshawe
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1973|6|12}}
| birth_place = London, England, United Kingdom
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| occupation = Journalist, writer
| language = English
| nationality = British
| period = 2005–present
| genre = Chick-lit
| spouse = Robin Nydes
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| children = 3
| relatives = Louise Mensch (sister)
| website = {{URL|tillybagshawe.com}}
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Matilda Emily Mary BagshaweThe Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991 Supplement (up to 31 December 1992), Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 5{{Cite web|url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/g4fUawjadvvOnpr8Ml5EDKuf4ME/appointments|title=Matilda Emily Mary BAGSHAWE-NYDES - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)|website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk|accessdate=16 November 2020}} (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,{{cite news|title=Births|newspaper=The Times|date=13 June 1973|page=1}} Bagshawe is one of three daughters born to Nicholas Wilfrid Bagshawe and his wife, Daphne Margaret (née Triggs).{{cite news|title=Marriages|newspaper=The Times|date=23 September 1969|page=12}} 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.Burke's Landed Gentry, eighteenth edition, vol. 1, Peter Townend, 1965, Bagshawe of Wormhill and Oakes-in-Norton pedigree{{cite web|url=http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=landgent&id=I3748 |title=The Landed Gentry of Britain |publisher=Wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com |date= |accessdate=2011-11-08}} 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,{{citation|title="Stanfield, Clarkson" Grove Dictionary of Art|author=David Cordingly|editor=Jane Turner|publisher=Macmillan Publishers|year=1996}} 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.{{citation|title=The Catholic Who's Who and yearbook, Volume 33|year=1940|page=432}} Her older sister is Louise Mensch, a chick lit author and former Conservative Member of Parliament. She has another sister and a brother.{{cite news |title=Relative Values: Tilly and Louise Bagshawe |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article518349.ece |newspaper=The Sunday Times |date=6 March 2005 |first=Caroline |last=Scott |location=London}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
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 to St John's College, Cambridge, with her ten-month-old daughter in tow.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}
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|date=September 2016}}
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 Show (2015)
- The Bachelor (2016)
- Friends and Rivals
=Sidney Sheldon series=
- 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)
- Sidney Sheldon's The Phoenix (2019)
= M. B. Shaw novels =
References
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Category:21st-century English novelists
Category:21st-century English women writers
Category:English Roman Catholics
Category:English women novelists
Category:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge