The Bird in the Chimney (aka Darkwater) (1963).

Afternoon for Lizards (aka Bridge of Fear) (1961).

The Schoolmaster's Daughter (aka The Daughters of Ardmore Hall) (1946).

Publications Writing as Dorothy Eden Library resources about Īfter treatment for breast cancer Eden helped to fundraise towards the operation of a scanner at Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith. Her writing also focused on gender relations. Once she moved to England most of her novels were set in England or Europe in various settings: Victorian England, Ireland at the time of the affair of Parnell and Kitty O'Shea, Mafeking and Peking during the Boxer rebellion, New South Wales in the pioneer days, Denmark, Italy and Scandinavia. It was a story of conflict between settlers and Māori and the elimination of social and class distinctions in the English and Scottish settlers.

Įden's historical novel Sleep in the Woods was set in Taranaki during the New Zealand Wars. She served on the committee of the English Crime Writers Association. In addition to writing novels, she also contributed to magazines, including New Zealand Mirror and other international magazines. Her works were translated into many different languages including Turkish, Icelandic and Hebrew. She was best known for her writings in the suspense and Gothic genres, both romances and thrillers. In 1980 Eden was described as one of the 10 best-selling novelists in the world.

In 1954 she moved to England she made the move 'to prove she could write'.

In the 1954 New Zealand electoral roll (on Ancestry) she was listed as residing at 315 Montreal St, Christchurch.Įden's first novel was published in 1940 and she became a full-time writer in 1946. She was educated in Wakanui and at Ashburton Technical School leaving school at 16 to work as a typist and legal secretary in Ashburton and Christchurch. Plaque commemorating Dorothy Eden outside 315 Montreal St, ChristchurchĮden was born in North Canterbury but she grew up in the area of Elgin and Wakanui, near Ashburton.

Waiting for willa by dorothy eden