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Matilda Emily Mary Bagshawe (born 12 June 1973) is a British freelance journalist and author. She is best known for her books in the vein of best-selling American author Sidney Sheldon, notably Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game and Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness.

Life and work

Born on 12 June 1973 in Lambeth Hospital, London, Bagshawe is one of three daughters born to Nicholas Wilfrid Bagshawe and his wife, Daphne Margaret (née Triggs). Her father is from the Bagshawe family of Roman Catholic gentry. They originally hailed from Wormhill Hall, near Buxton, Derbyshire, and Oakes-in-Norton, near Sheffield. Her great-grandfather was the marine artist Joseph Ridgard Bagshawe, who was himself grandson of one of the 19th century's most renowned marine artists, Clarkson Stanfield, and a nephew of Edward Gilpin Bagshawe, Catholic Bishop of Nottingham. Her paternal grandmother, Mary Frideswide, was the daughter of Charles Robertson, a stockbroker and benefactor of St Philip's Priory, Begbroke and one of the co-founders of Westminster Cathedral. Her older sister is Louise Mensch, a chick lit author and former Conservative Member of Parliament. She has another sister and a brother.

She was educated at Woldingham School, Surrey, and while there, she became pregnant. At seventeen, she was a single mother of a daughter, but she finished her studies and at the age of eighteen, she went to St John's College, Cambridge, with her ten-month-old daughter in tow.

Married to Robin Nydes, a US businessman, she lives between homes in London and Los Angeles, with three children. Now a freelance journalist and novelist, Bagshawe is a regular contributor to The Sunday Times, Daily Mail and other British publications.

Bibliography

Novels

• Adored (2005/Jul) (ISBN 0-446-57688-3).
• Showdown (2006).
• Do Not Disturb (2008).
• Flawless (2009).
• Scandalous (2010).
• Fame (2011)
• Temptation (2012)
• The Inheritance (2014)
• The Show (2015)
• The Bachelor (2016)
• Friends and Rivals

Sidney Sheldon series

• Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game (2009/Aug).
• Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness (2010/Jun).
• Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the Dark (2012)
• Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory (2013)
• Sidney Sheldon's Chasing Tomorrow (2014/Sep)
• Sidney Sheldon's Reckless (2015)
• Sidney Sheldon's The Silent Widow (2018)
• Sidney Sheldon's The Phoenix (2019)

M. B. Shaw novels

• Murder at the Mill (2017)

References

1. The Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991 Supplement (up to 31 December 1992), Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 5
2. "Matilda Emily Mary BAGSHAWE-NYDES - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
3. "Births". The Times. 13 June 1973. p. 1.
4. "Marriages". The Times. 23 September 1969. p. 12.
5. Burke's Landed Gentry, eighteenth edition, vol. 1, Peter Townend, 1965, Bagshawe of Wormhill and Oakes-in-Norton pedigree
6. "The Landed Gentry of Britain". Wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
7. David Cordingly (1996), Jane Turner (ed.), "Stanfield, Clarkson" Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan Publishers
8. The Catholic Who's Who and yearbook, Volume 33, 1940, p. 432
9. Scott, Caroline (6 March 2005). "Relative Values: Tilly and Louise Bagshawe". The Sunday Times. London.
10. "Bagshawe to write pen-name 'cosy crime' for Trapeze". The Bookseller.

• 1973 births
• Living people
• 21st-century English novelists
• 21st-century English women writers
• English journalists
• English Roman Catholics
• English women novelists
• Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
• People educated at Woldingham School
• English women non-fiction writers