Romance History: Sylvia Thorpe

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Born in 1926, Sylvia Thorpe (pen-name of June Sylvia Thimblethorpe) wrote more or less 30 historical romances. Ironic novels, sentimental, passionate, full of adventures and turn of events, which have earned her an huge popularity.

With "The Scapegrace" she won the Elizabeth Goudge Historical Award. She is also an Hon. Life Members of the Romantic Novelist' Association.

Miss June Sylvia Thimblethorpe is now a trustee for the Goodrich Village Hall Trust. Goodrich is a village, in south Herefordshire which is very close to Gloucestershire and the Forest of Dean situated near the River Wye and is famous for its old red sandstone Norman and medieval castle. Not strictly in the Forest of Dean but close enough to count (especially with tourists, and historically, invaders!) Goodrich is a small village that grew up next to Goodrich Castle, a fine 'Marcher Castle' which stands on a high spur of land commanding strategic position above a ford, an important ancient crossing point of the Wye. The castle was begun in 1101 and from 1326 onwards was the family seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury, although by the 16th century it had passed into the hands of the Earls of Kent and was no longer inhabited on a permanent basis.

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