Louise Gerard

Amelia Louise Gerard was born in Basford, Nottingham, on March 26, 1878, and died in Leicester on November 5, 1970. She was educated in Nottingham, and reference sources describe her as the daughter of a Nottingham soap manufacturer.

She began writing after leaving school and built a career as a prolific novelist in the early 1900s. Her first known book, The Golden Centipede, appeared in 1910, and she went on to publish many more novels, largely associated with Mills & Boon. Her fiction is often described as adventurous and sensational, with strong elements of romance.

Gerard also seems to have drawn on wide travel experience. Library and reference sources credit her with traveling in Europe, the Iberian Peninsula, Scandinavia, and Central Europe, and that spirit of movement shows in novels such as A Son of the Sahara and Bride of the Night. A suitable verified portrait could not be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so no author image is included here.