Matilda Emily Mary Bagshawe[1][2] (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.
Tilly Bagshawe | |
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| Born | Matilda Emily Mary Bagshawe 12 June 1973 London, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 2005–present |
| Genre | Chick-lit |
| Spouse | Robin Nydes |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Louise Mensch (sister) |
| Website | |
| tillybagshawe | |
Life and work
editBorn on 12 June 1973 in Lambeth Hospital, London,[3] Bagshawe is one of three daughters born to Nicholas Wilfrid Bagshawe and his wife, Daphne Margaret (née Triggs).[4] 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.[5][6] 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,[7] 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.[8] Her older sister is Louise Mensch, a chick lit author and former Conservative Member of Parliament. She has another sister and a brother.[9]
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]
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]
Bibliography
editNovels
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- Murder at the Mill (2017)[10]
References
edit- ^ The Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991 Supplement (up to 31 December 1992), Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 5
- ^ "Matilda Emily Mary BAGSHAWE-NYDES - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ "Births". The Times. 13 June 1973. p. 1.
- ^ "Marriages". The Times. 23 September 1969. p. 12.
- ^ Burke's Landed Gentry, eighteenth edition, vol. 1, Peter Townend, 1965, Bagshawe of Wormhill and Oakes-in-Norton pedigree
- ^ "The Landed Gentry of Britain". Wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
- ^ David Cordingly (1996), Jane Turner (ed.), "Stanfield, Clarkson" Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan Publishers
- ^ The Catholic Who's Who and yearbook, Volume 33, 1940, p. 432
- ^ Scott, Caroline (6 March 2005). "Relative Values: Tilly and Louise Bagshawe". The Sunday Times. London.[dead link]
- ^ "Bagshawe to write pen-name 'cosy crime' for Trapeze". The Bookseller.