Mary Balogh


Mary Balogh is a Welsh-Canadian novelist writing historical romance.

Biography

Personal life

Mary Jenkins was born and raised in Swansea, Wales, daughter of Mildred "Double", a homemaker, and Arthur Jenkins, a signwriter and painter. She moved to Canada on a two-year teaching contract in 1967 after leaving university. There, she met and married her Canadian husband Robert Balogh, a coroner and ambulance driver, and settled in the small prairie town of Kipling, Saskatchewan. She taught high-school English for a number of years, and rose to the level of school principal. She has three children, Jacqueline, Christopher and Sian, and five grandchildren, Matthew, Shianne, Jayden, Cash, and Christo.

Writing career

As an adult, Balogh discovered the world of the Regency romance as written by Georgette Heyer. The vast majority of Balogh's novels have been set in Regency or Georgian England or Wales. Although she writes historical romances, Mary Balogh's heroines are often not "ladies". Some are courtesans, illegitimate, "fallen" or "ruined" women. All enjoy passion, and often a marriage and/or a sensual connection precedes recognition of love.
Balogh began her writing career in 1983, when she wrote her first novel A Masked Deception in the evenings at the kitchen table while home and family functioned around her. A Masked Deception was accepted by Signet and published in 1985. Mary Balogh won the Romantic Times Award for best new Regency writer in that year. She is the author of more than 60 published novels and over 30 novellas, and has met with critical success.

Reception

Balogh has received numerous awards, including a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Regency Short Stories in 1993 and has appeared on the New York Times best-seller list.

Single novels

  1. A Chance Encounter
  2. The Wood Nymph

    Waite Series

  3. The Trysting Place
  4. A Counterfeit Betrothal
  5. The Notorious Rake

    Frazer Series

  6. The First Snowdrop
  7. Christmas Belle

    Web Series

  8. The Gilded Web
  9. Web of Love
  10. Devil's Web
  11. A Promise of Spring

    Brides & Wives Series

  12. The Ideal Wife
  13. A Precious Jewel
  14. Dark Angel
  15. Lord Carew's Bride
  16. The Famous Heroine
  17. The Plumed Bonnet
  18. A Christmas Bride

    Sullivan Series

  19. Courting Julia
  20. Dancing with Clara
  21. Tempting Harriet

    Georgian Series

  22. Heartless
  23. Silent Melody

    Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Trilogy

  24. Indiscreet
  25. Unforgiven
  26. Irresistible

    Bedwyn Family Connected

Bedwyn Prequels

  1. One Night for Love
  2. A Summer to Remember
  3. The Proposal

    Bedwyn Saga

  4. Slightly Married
  5. Slightly Wicked
  6. Slightly Scandalous
  7. Slightly Tempted
  8. Slightly Sinful
  9. Slightly Dangerous

    Simply Quartet

  10. Simply Unforgettable
  11. Simply Love
  12. Simply Magic
  13. Simply Perfect

    Mistress Trilogy

  14. The Secret Mistress
  15. More than a Mistress
  16. No Man's Mistress

    Huxtable Family Quintet

  17. First Comes Marriage
  18. Then Comes Seduction
  19. At Last Comes Love
  20. Seducing An Angel
  21. A Secret Affair

    Survivors' Club Septet

  22. The Proposal
  23. The Suitor, an e-book novella
  24. The Arrangement
  25. The Escape
  26. Only Enchanting
  27. Only a Promise
  28. Only a Kiss
  29. Only Beloved

    Westcott Family Series

  30. Someone to Love
  31. Someone to Hold
  32. Someone to Wed
  33. Someone to Care
  34. Someone to Trust
  35. Someone to Honor
  36. Someone to Remember

    Novellas

In order of publication.