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Emma Goldrick

American husband-and-wife writing team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ5372817 ↗
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Emma Goldrick was the pseudonym used by the married writing team formed by Emma Elizabeth Jean Sutcliffe (February 7, 1923, in Puerto Rico – November 20, 2008) and Robert N. Goldrick (March 22, 1919, in Massachusetts, United States – January 22, 1996). Under this name they wrote 41 romance novels published by Mills & Boon between 1983 and 1996. After Robert's death, Emma wrote her last book, "The Ninety-Day Wife", in his memory.

Bibliography

Single novels

And Blow Your House Down (1983)

Miss Mary's Husband (1985)

Ice Lady (1985)

Night Bells Blooming (1985)

The Trouble With Bridges (1985)

Rent-a-bride Ltd.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 2008, 1919, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Emma, Goldrick and American can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Emma Goldrick” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.