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Gerard, Louise

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1878-1970) UK author, almost exclusively of romances, some of them literally bodice-rippers, featuring heroines who are frequently abducted, bound, raped, and who then fall in love with the aristocratic perp; her first novel, The Golden Centipede (1910), features, on the other hand, a dominatrix white queen, a She figure who rules a Lost Race in the heart of darkest Africa. [JC]

Amelia Louise Gerard

born Basford, Nottingham: 26 March 1878

died Leicester, Leicestershire: 5 November 1970

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