Effie Adelaide Maria Albanesi, née Henderson (New South Wales, Australia, 1859 – 16 October 1936, London

London

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, England

England

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), better known by her usual pen name of Effie Adelaide Rowlands, was a British novelist. She was the author of more than 250 six-penny (dime) novels.

Personal life and family

She was the illegitimate daughter of Alexander Henderson (1828–1886). She was married for a time to playwright Cecil Raleigh

Cecil Raleigh

Cecil Raleigh was an English actor and playwright.He was the son of Dr. John Fothergill Rowlands, and took the stage name of Raleigh...

 (born Cecil Rowlands, from whom she may have taken her pen name), who divorced her. She later married Chevalier Carlo Albanesi, an Italian musician. She was the mother of actress Meggie Albanesi

Meggie Albanesi

Meggie Albanesi was a British stage and film actress. She was born Margherita Albanesi in London on 8 October 1899. Her mother was Effie Adelaide Rowlands, a writer, and her father was Chevalier Carlo Albanesi, an Italian violinist. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and made her film...

(née Margherita Cecila Brigida Lucia Maria Albanesi, 1899–1923).

Works

• Margery Daw (1886)
• Woman Against Woman (1890)
• My Pretty Jane (1894)
• The Spell of Ursula (1894)
• A Conqueror of Fate (1895)
• Love the Conqueror (1895)
• The Woman Who Came Between (1895)
• For Love of Sigrid (1895)
• At Great Cost (1895)
• Little Kit (1895)
• A Faithful Traitor (1896)
• The Fault of One (1897)
• The Blunder of An Innocent (1899)
• The Kingdom of a Heart (1899)
• They Laugh That Win (1899)
• A Woman Scorned (1899)
• A King and a Coward (1899)
• Little Aldy Charles (1899)
• The Heart of Hetta (1900)
• Husband and Foe (1900)
• Beneath a Spell (1900)
• A Charity Girl (1900)
• The Man She Loved (1900)
• One Man's Evil (1900)
• Peter, a Parasite (1901)
• Brave Barbara (1901)
• Love and Louisa (1902)
• Susannah and One Elder (1904)
• Capricious Caroline (1904)
• For Ever True (1904)
• Marion Sax (1905)
• Selina's Love Story (1904)
• Temptation of Mary Burr (1904)
• The Brown Eyes of Mary (1905)
• A Love Almost Lost (1905)
• Angel of Evil (1905)
• Her Husband and Her Love (1905)
• So Like a Man (1905)
• A Splendid Man (1905)
• Spurned Proposal (1905)
• Andrew Leicester's Love (1905)
• A Heart's Triumph (1906)
• Sweet William (1906)
• I Know a Maiden (1906)
• A Little Brown Mouse (1906)
• A Young Man from the Country (1906)
• The Wiles of a Siren (1906)
• The End Crowns All (1906)
• A Shadowed Happiness (1906)
• For Love of Sigrid (1906)
• Love's Greatest Gift (aka The White in the Black) (1906)
• My Lady of Dreadwood (1906)
• A Wife's Triumph (1906)
• Love-In-A-Mist (1907)
• The Strongest of All Things (1907)
• Simple Simon (1907)
• Pretty Penelope (1907)
• Sister Anne (1908)
• The Rose of Yesterday (1908)
• Drusilla's Point of View (1908)
• Pretty Polly Pennington (aka Sweet and Lovely) (1908)
• The Forbidden Road (1908)
• The Laughter of Life (1908)
• The Invincible Amelia (1909)
• A Question of Quality (1909)
• Envious Eliza (1909)
• The Marriage of Margaret (1909)
• The Glad Heart (1910)
• For Love of Anne Lambert (1910)
• Maisie's Romance (1910)
• Her Punishment (1910)
• The Man She Married (1910)
• After Many Days (1910)
• Contrary Mary (1910)
• A Dangerous Woman (1910)
• For Love of Speranza (1910)
• The Game of Life (1910)
• Her Heart's Longing (1910)
• Her Kingdom (1910)
• John Galbraith's Wife (1910)
• Love for Love (1910)
• A Loyal Man's Love (1910)
• The Master of Lynch Towers (1910)
• The Mistress of the Farm (1910)
• Bitter Sweet (1910)
• A Splendid Destiny (1910)
• A Wonder of Love (1911)
• Poppies in the Corn (1911)
• Heart of His Heart (1911)
• Barbara's Love Story (1911)
• Brave Heart (1911)
• Carlton's Wife (1911)
• Dare and Do (1911)
• False Faith (1911)
• For Ever and a Day (1911)
• A Girl with a Heart (1911)
• Her Mistake (1911)
• Leila Vane's Burden (1911)
• A Life's Love (1911)
• Love's Harvest (1911)
• The Madness of Love (1911)
• The Man at the Gate (1911)
• The One Woman (1911)
• The Power of Love (1911)
• Splendid Love (1911)
• White Abbey (1911)
• A Wild Rose (1911)
• A Woman Worth Winning (1911)
• A Woman's Heart (1911)
• The Young Wife (1911)
• Love's Fire (1911)
• The Triumph of Love (1911)
• Olivia Mary (1912)
• On the Wings of Fate
• Carla
• Change of Heart
• False and True
• For Love and Honor
• The Girl's Kingdom
• Interloper
• Kinsman's Sin
• Love's Cruel Whim
• Siren's Heart
• Tempted by Love
• With Heart So True
• Woman Against Her
• Woman Scorned
• A Golden Dawn (1912)
• Hester Trefusis (1912)
• The House of Sunshine (1912)
• In Love's Land (1912)
• A Love Match (1912)
• The Love of His Life (1912)
• The Rose of Life (1912)
• Temptation (1912)
• To Love and to Cherish (1912)
• The Wooing of Rose (1912)
• His One Love (1912)
• Lavender's Love Story (1912)
• Love Wins (1912)
• A Modern Witch (1912)
• The Beloved Enemy (1913)
• One of the Crowd (1913)
• Cissy (1913)
• Beth Mason (1913)
• Elsie Brant's Daughter (1913)
• Hearts at War (1913)
• The Joy of Life (1913)
• Lady Patricia's Faith (1913)
• Love's Mask (1913)
• Margaret Dent (1913)
• Ruth's Romance (1913)
• Stranger Than Truth (1913)
• The Surest Bond (1913)
• Through Weal and Through Woe (1913)
• In Daffodil Time (1913)
• The Heart of a Woman (1913)
• Judged by Fate (1913)
• The Cap of Youth (1914)
• The Sunlit Hills (1914)
• The Man of Mystery (1914)
• When a Woman Dreams (1914)
• The Hand of Fate (1914)
• Her Husband (1914)
• An Irish Lover (1914)
• Money or Wife? (1914)
• On the High Road (1914)
• Two Waifs (1914)
• At Her Mercy (1914)
• The Price Paid (1914)
• Prudence Langford's Ordeal (1914)
• Love's Young Dream (1914)
• Above All Things (1915)
• Sunset and Dawn (1915)
• The Woman's Fault (1915)
• Hearts and Sweethearts (1916)
• The Girl Who Was Brave (1916)
• When Michael Came to Town (1917)
• The Splendid Friend (1917)
• The Heart of Angela Brent (1917)
• Truant Happiness (1918)
• Diana Falls in Love (1919)
• Tony's Wife (19aka: Punch and Judy) (1919)
• A Strange Love Story (1919)
• Patricia and Life (1920)
• Love's Shadows (1920)
• John Helsby's Wife (1920)
• The House That Jane Built (1921)
• Mary Dunbar's Love (1921)
• Roseanne (1922)
• Truth in a Circle (1922)
• Against the World (1923)
• The Flame of Love (1923)
• The Garland of Youth (1923)
• A Bird in a Storm (1924)
• Young Hearts (1924)
• The Life Line (1924)
• Real Gold (1924)
• Sally in Her Alley (1925)
• The Shadow Wife (1925)
• Out of a Clear Sky (1925)
• The Way of Youth (1925)
• Brave Love (1926)
• A Bunch of Blue Ribbons (1926)
• Lady Feo's Daughter (1926)
• Sally Gets Married (1927)
• The Green Country (1927)
• The Gates of Happiness (1927)
• A Man from the West (1927)
• Fateful Promise
• Her Golden Secret
• Hero for Love's Sake
• Unhappy Bargain
• Meggie Albanesi [1928)
• The Moon Through Glass (1928)
• Claire and Circumstances (aka In Love with Claire) (1928)
• Fine Feathers (1928)
• Lights and Shadows (1928)
• Gold in the Dust (1929)
• A Heart for Sale (1929)
• Spring in the Heart (1929)
• While Faith Endures (1929)
• The Clear Stream (1930)
• Loyalty (1930)
• The Courage of Love (1930)
• White Flame (1930)
• Coulton's Wife (1930)
• Dorinda's Lovers (1930)
• The Fighting Spirit (1930)
• Sunlight Beyond (1930)
• Coloured Lights (1931)
• The Posy Ring (1931)
• Wings of Chance (1931)
• Princess Charming (1931)
• All's Well with the World (1932)
• The Moon of Romance (1932)
• Snow in Summer (1932)
• Green Valleys (1932)
• The Laughter of Life (1932)
• A Loyal Defence (1932)
• A Star in the Dark (1933)
• White Branches (1933)
• A Ministering Angel (1933)
• Through the Mist (1934)
• The Half Open Door (1934)
• Frances Fights for Herself (1934)
• A School for Hearts (1934)
• An Unframed Portrait (1935)
• A World of Dreams (1935)
• The One Who Paid (1935)
• As a Man Loves (1936)
• The Hidden Gift (1936)
• A Leaf Turned Down (1936)
• The Heart Line (1936)
• The Lamp of Friendship (1936)
• The Little Lady (1937)
• The Love That Lives (1937)
• The One Who Counted (1937)
• Her Father's Wish (1937)
• The Top of the Tree (1937)