Irene Mossop


Irene Swatridge, née Irene Maude Mossop was a British writer of over 175 children's and romance novels.
Swatridge wrote under her maiden and married names, as well as under the pseudonyms of Jan Tempeste, Fay Chandos, and Virginia Storm. She also wrote in collaboration with her husband Charles John Swatridge under the pseudonyms of Theresa Charles and Leslie Lance, and after his death under the pseudonyms alone.

Life and career

Born Irene Maude Mossop on 6 December 1904 in Woking, Surrey, England, she was the elder child of Maude Binford Eyre and Robert Mossop, a solicitor, later she had a brother. She was educated privately.
Swatridge started writing very young, and after her father's death she started publishing girls' schools novels as Irene Mossop. In 1934, she married a former RAF officer and recently widowed Charles John Swatridge. They moved to a Devon farm, where she continued writing.
After her marriage, Swatridge started to write gothic and romance novels, first as Jan Tempest and later as Fay Chandos. In collaboration with her husband, Swatridge published as Theresa Charles, years later, also published with her husband some novels as Leslie Lance, and after his death she continued using the pseudonym alone.
In the 1950s, Swatridge had serious discussions with Alan Boon of Mills & Boon about her novel Without A Honeymoon when she introduced the idea of an illegitimate child. He felt that she would encounter difficulties with the Irish audience.
Swatridge died on 26 October 1988.

As Irene Mossop

Well Played Juliana! Prunella Plays the Game Chris in Command Freesia's Feud Hilary Leads the Way Nicky – New Girl Sylvia Sways the School The Luck of the Oakleighs Theresa's First Term Champion Book for Girls Rona's Rival Vivien of St. Val's Pleasure Book for Girls A Rebel at Rowan's Barbara Black-Sheep Una Wins Through Feud In The Fifth The Taming of Prickles Play Up, Pine House! The Fifth at Cliff House The Four V's Theda Marhs Theresa on Trial The Gay Adventure
  • ''Charm's Last Chance''

As Jan Tempest

All This I Gave Someone New to Love No Other Man Because My Love Is Come Man-and Waif Romance on Ice If You'll Marry Me Utility Husband Westward to My Love House of the Pines Cinderella Had Two Sisters How Can I Forget? Never Another Love Promise of Paradise Short-Cut to the Stars A Match Is Made Nobody Else – Ever Now and Always Until I Find Her Two Loves for Tamara Happy Is the Wooing Open the Door to Love Without a Honeymoon Give her Gardenias Meet Me By Moonlight Enchanted Valley First Time of Asking Ask Me Again aka Where the Heart Is For Those in Love Wedding Bells for Willow Craddock's Kingdom Will Not Now Take Place Because There Is Hope The Youngest Sister aka Jubilee HospitalRomance for Rose Stranger to Love Mistress of Castlemount That Nice Nurse Nevin The Madderleys Married The Flower and the Fruit The Way We Used to Be The Lonesome Road Meant to Kill Meant to Meet Lyra, My Love Mistress of Martinscombe
  • ''Doctor from Nowhere''

As Fay Chandos

Man of My Dreams No Escape from Love No Limit to Love Before I make you Mine Gay Knight I Love Wife for a Wager All I Ask When Three Walk Together Husband for Hire Substitute for Sherry When We Two Parted You Should Have Warned Me Only a Touch Women Are So Simple A Letter to My Love Awake, My Love! A Man to Follow Eve and I Away from Each Other Just a Little Longer Made to Marry A Man for Margaret Three Roads to Romance Home Is the Hero When Time Stands Still Because I Wear Your Ring Cousins May Kiss Lost Summer Since First We Met June in Her Eyes There is a Tide First and Favourite Wife Now and Always Families Are Such Fun Find Another Eden Leave It to Nancy The Other One Doctors Are Different Just Before the Wedding Hibiscus House aka Nurse IncognitoHusbands at Home So Nearly Married Partners Are a Problem The Romantic Touch Model Girl's Farm Nan – and the New Owner Wild Violets Where Four Ways Meet Sister Sylvan Two Other People Don't Give Your Heart Away Farm By the Sea Strangers in Love Three of Us
  • ''Sweet Rosemary''

As Virginia Storm

First I Must Forget
  • ''Ugly Prince''

As Theresa Charles

The Distant Drum My Enemy and I To Save My Life Happy Now I Go aka Dark Legacy Man-Made Miracle At a Touch I Yield Fairer Than She My Only Love The Kinder Love The Burning Beacon The Ultimate Surrender A Girl Called Evelyn No Through Road House on the Rocks Ring for Nurse Raine Patient in Love Widower's Wife aka Return to TerrorNurse Alice in Love aka Lady in the MistThe Man for Me aka The Shrouded TowerHow Much You Mean to Me Proud Citadel The Shadowy Third The Way Men Love From Fairest Flowers Wayward as the Swallow Second Honeymoon My True Love Therefore Must Be Loved Castle Kelpiesloch Nurse by Accident Flower and the Nettle One Who Remembers Trust Me, My Love Rainbow After Rain Crisis at St. Chad's Just for One Weekend Surgeon's Reputation With Somebody Else Surgeon's Sweetheart No Easier Road to Love
  • ''Always in My Heart''

As Leslie Lance

Man of the Family Sisters in Love Spun by the Moon A Summer's Grace Springtime for Sally Spreading Sails The Young Curmudgeon Bright Winter I'll Ride Beside You Bride of Emersham No Summer Beauty Return to King's Mere Nurse in the Woods aka The House in the WoodsSummer People Nurse Verena at Weirwater Nurse on the Moors No Laggard in Love New Lord Whinbridge Now I Can Forget Love That Lasts Maverton Heiress The Return of the Cuckoo Island House Romance at Wreckers' Point Cousins By Courtesy Family on the Farm Orchid Girl Girl in the Mauve Mini Rose Princess Doctor in the Snow Hawk's Head Someone Who Cares Dear Patience
  • ''Heiress to the Isle''