Savage surrender by charlotte lamb6/19/2023 ![]() Her books touched on then-taboo subjects such as child abuse and rape, and she created sexually confident - even dominant - heroines. One of the first writers to explore the boundaries of sexual desire, her novels often reflected the forefront of the "sexual revolution" of the 1970s. ![]() Sheila was a true revolutionary in the field of romance writing. She also used the pennames: Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. ![]() She used both her married and maiden names, Sheila Holland and Sheila Coates, before her first novel as Charlotte Lamb, Follow a Stranger, was published by Mills & Boon in 1973. She wrote her first book in three days with three children underfoot! In between raising her five children (including a set of twins), Charlotte wrote several more novels. While there, she met and married Richard Holland, a political reporter.Ī voracious reader of romance novels, she began writing at her husband's suggestion. She later worked as a secretary for the BBC. Sheila continued her education by taking advantage of the B of E's enormous library during her lunch breaks and after work. On leaving school at 16, the convent-educated author worked for the Bank of England as a clerk. Sheila attended the Ursuline Convent for Girls. As a child, she was moved from relative to relative to escape the bombings of World War II. ![]() Sheila Ann Mary Coates was born on 1937 in Essex, England, just before the Second World War in the East End of London. ![]()
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