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Eileen Ramsay (née Ainsworth; 16 December 1940 – 18 January 2023) was a British writer of romance novels. She wrote 18 books from 1985.

Biography

Eileen Ainsworth was born in Ayrshire, Scotland on 16 December 1940. After graduating she went to teach in the United States for 18 years. She married Ian Ramsay, a Scottish scientist, and they had two children. They returned to Scotland, and after teaching for a few years she became a full-time writer.

Ramsay was elected the twenty-seventh chairman (2015–2017) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Ramsay died of pneumonia on 18 January 2023 at the age of 82.

Bibliography

As Eileen Ainsworth Ramsay

Romance novel

• The Mysterious Marquis (1985)

As Eileen Ramsay

Romance novels

• The Broken Gate (1994)
• The Dominie's Lassie (1995)
• Butterflies in December (1995)
• The Quality of Mercy (1997)
• Walnut Shell Days (1997)
• Harvest of Courage (1998)
• Never Call It Loving (1998)
• The Wings of Friendship (2001)
• The Feein' Market (2002)
• Lace for a Lady (2002)
• Someday, Somewhere (2003)
• A Way of Forgiving (2004)
• The Stuff of Dreams (2005)
• Rainbow's End (2006)
• Henriqueta's treasure (2008)
• Love Changes Everything (2012)

Flowers of Scotland

1. Rich Girl, Poor Girl (2017)
2. The Farm Girl's Dream (2017)
3. A Pinch of Salt (2017)

Children's fiction

• Danger by Gaslight (1998)

Anthologies

• Sakura and other stories (2012)

References and sources

1. Eileen Ramsay obituary
2. Eileen Ramsay's Biography
3. Past RNA Officers, archived from the original on 11 March 2016, retrieved 10 June 2016
4. Brown, Lauren (3 March 2023). "Tributes paid to author Eileen Ramsay after death at 82". The Bookseller. Retrieved 3 March 2023.

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