Romance History: Ida Pollock

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Ida Pollock, now resident in Lanreath, Cornwall, celebrated her 100th birthday last April. Her daughter Rosemary says the day began with delivery of a birthday card from the Queen, followed the arrival of numerous friends and family members bearing gifts and flowers. Ida was particularly pleased to receive congratulations from the Romantic Novelists' Association, and several publishers including Mills and Boon, also celebrating their centenary this year.

Early in the WWII she took a job in London, where she remained through much of the Blitz. While visiting a publisher's office she met her future husband, the charismatic Major Hugh Alexander Pollock (1888-1971), DSO, married to the publisher's daughter, Enid Blyton. The Pollock's marriage was in difficulties, and after their divorce, Enid remarried with Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters and Hugh remarried with Ida at London's Guildhall register office, six days after Blyton's marriage. Soon they had a daughter, Rosemary Pollock, also a romance writer.
 
After the World War II, Ida began writing for Mills&Boon, and after the success of her first historical novel, The Gentle Masquerade, Mills and Boon's Masquerade series was launched. She wrote as Ida Pollock and as Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler and Marguerite Bell.

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