Elizabeth Margaret Smith was born on 1930 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK. She started to work in a library at 20, and met Mr. O'Rourke, her future husband at Library School. During her first two years of marriage they lived in USA. They had four children.
She has worked as both a bookseller and a librarian and has published over ten books with various publishing houses as Betty O'Rourke. She was a former vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association and she is currently the acting Membership Secretary of the RNA.
Betty lived in her native Reading, where she passed away in 2006.
English novelist
| Born | 1930 |
| Died | 2006 |
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English novelist
| Born | 1930 |
| Died | 2006 |
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Romance, Large type books, Fiction, Bereavement, Married people, Middle-aged women, English fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, romance, historical, general, World War, 1914-1918Places
GermanyPeople
Alex, Alison, Carol Legat, Charlie, Fiona, Kristina, Madame de Caudebec, Michael, Paul Reinhardt, Peter, Rachel Hayward, Raoul, Rose Turner, Rowena, Ruth Lawson, Toby WhitstableID Numbers
- OLID: OL3092096A
- ISNI: 0000000064020634
- Library of Congress Names: nb2007007204
- VIAF: 51215145
- Wikidata: Q4898943
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q4898943
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Alternative names
- Betty O'Rourke
- Elizabeth Margaret Smith O'Rourke
| July 31, 2025 | Edited by WikidataBot | [sync_author_identifiers_with_wikidata] add wikidata remote identifiers |
| September 27, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | add ISNI |
| October 22, 2018 | Edited by CGN | Edited without comment. |
| March 31, 2017 | Edited by MARC Bot | add VIAF and wikidata ID |
| April 30, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | initial import |