# Tilly Armstrong

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**Tilly Armstrong** (8 April 1927 – 6 July 2010) was a British writer of [romance novels](/source/Romance_novel) from 1978 to 1998. She also wrote as **Tania Langley** and **Kate Alexander**.

## Biography

Armstrong was born on 8 April 1927 in [Sutton, Surrey](/source/Sutton,_Surrey).[1]

She loved to write and used to make up stories to tell her siblings.[2]

Before she began her writing career, she worked for the [World Health Organization](/source/World_Health_Organization) in [Geneva](/source/Geneva), then in Canada for 18 months, and then became the personal secretary to the Chairman of [British Steel](/source/British_Steel_(1967%E2%80%931999)), [Lord Melchett](/source/Julian_Mond,_3rd_Baron_Melchett).[3]

She was the fourteenth elected Chairman (1987–1989) of the [Romantic Novelists' Association](/source/Romantic_Novelists'_Association),[4] and was later one of its vice-presidents.[2]

Armstrong was also the founding President of Sutton Writers and worked for Nonsuch.[2]

She died aged 83, on 6 July 2010, at [Carshalton](/source/Carshalton), [England](/source/England), [UK](/source/United_Kingdom).

## Bibliography

Armstrong wrote under her own name and under two pseudonyms.[5]

### As Tilly Armstrong

- *Lightly Like a Flower* (1978)
- *Come Live With Me* (1979)
- *Joy Runs High* (1979)
- *Limited Engagement* (1980)
- *Summer Tangle* (1983)
- *Small Town Girl* (1984)
- *Pretty Penny* (1985)

### As Tania Langley

- *Dawn* (1980)
- *Mademoiselle Madeleine* (1981)
- *The London Linnet* (1985)
- *Genevra* (1987)

### As Kate Alexander

- *Fields of Battle* (1981)
- *Friends and Enemies* (1982)
- *Paths of Peace* (1984)
- *Bright Tomorrows* (1985)
- *Songs of War* (1987)
- *Great Possessions* (1989)
- *The Shining Country* (1991)
- *The House of Hope* (1992)
- *Voices of Song* (1994)
- *The Anthology of Love and Romance* (edited, 1994) (including stories by [Rosamunde Pilcher](/source/Rosamunde_Pilcher), [Georgette Heyer](/source/Georgette_Heyer), [Edith Wharton](/source/Edith_Wharton) *et al*)
- *Family Trees* (1995)
- *Love and Duty* (1998)

## References

1. Vasudevan, Aruna; Henderson, Lesley; Mussell, Kay; Light, Alison (1994). *Twentieth-century romance and historical writers*. 3rd ed. London Detroit (Mich.) Washington (D.C.): St James press. p. 8. ISBN 1558621806.

1. ["Tilly Armstrong (1927-2010)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120130104048/http://www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org/index.php/news/entry/tilly_armstrong_1927_2010_rna_vice_president). *Romantic Novelists' Association*. Archived from [the original](http://www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org/index.php/news/entry/tilly_armstrong_1927_2010_rna_vice_president) on 30 January 2012.

1. ["Author: Tilly Armstrong"](http://www.bookerworm.com/resources/authors/1688417-tilly-armstrong.html). *BookerWorm*. 20 January 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2021.

1. ["Past RNA Officers"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090213144031/https://rna-uk.org/index.php?page=pastofficers). *The Romantic Novelists' Association*. Archived from [the original](https://rna-uk.org/index.php?page=pastofficers) on 13 February 2009.

1. ["Tilly Armstrong at fantasticfiction"](http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/a/tilly-armstrong)

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