[1] She worked as a typist-secretary at the Bank of England in London, from 1954 to 1956, and then as a junior researcher for the BBC at Broadcasting House from the 1956 to 1958.
[1] In 1959, she married Richard Holland, then a Fleet Street journalist, later a sub-editor of The Times and a classical biographer.
Her first historical and romantic novels were published by Robert Hale and serialised in Woman's Weekly Digest.
By the late 1970s, she was an established and successful author, publishing as many as twelve novels a year with Mills and Boon.
Known for her swiftness, literary style and versatility, Sheila Holland was able to write in several different genres – hence her plethora of pseudonyms as well as publishers.
Her books touched on then-taboo subjects such as child abuse and rape, and she created sexually confident -even dominant- heroines.