[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.
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.
[3] Her last novel, a romantic thriller published posthumously with Hodder & Stoughton, was entitled The Angel of Death.