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Amy Roberta (Berta) Ruck (2 August 1878 – 11 August 1978), born in India, was a prolific Welsh writer of over 90 romance novels from 1905 to 1972. She also wrote short stories, an autobiography and two books of memoirs. Her married name was Mrs Oliver Onions from 1909 until 1918, when her husband changed his name and she became Amy Oliver.

Berta Ruck
Portrait of Berta Ruck by Walter Stoneman, circa 1916
BornAmy Roberta Ruck
(1878-08-02)2 August 1878
Murree, Punjab, British India
(now Punjab, Pakistan)
Died11 August 1978(1978-08-11) (aged 100)
Aberdyfi, Wales
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Period1905–1972
GenreRomance
Spouse(George) Oliver Onions
Children2

Early life


Born Amy Roberta Ruck on 2 August 1878 in Murree, Punjab, British India,[1] she was one of the eight children of Eleanor D'Arcy and Colonel Arthur Ashley Ruck, a British army officer. The family moved to Wales, where Ruck was educated at St Winifred's School, Bangor.[2] She then attended the Slade School of Fine Art to study art, winning a scholarship, and finally the Académie Colarossi in Paris.[3]

Bernard Darwin, the golf writer and grandchild of Charles Darwin, was her cousin.


Personal life


In 1909, Ruck married a fellow novelist, (George) Oliver Onions (1873–1961). They had two sons: Arthur (born 1912) and William (born 1913).[4] Her husband legally changed his name to George Oliver in 1918, but continued to publish under the name Oliver Onions.

Berta Ruck was widowed in 1961. She died in Aberdyfi on 11 August 1978, nine days after her 100th birthday.[2]

Many of Ruck's letters and manuscripts are archived in the National Library of Wales.[5]


Writing career


Berta Ruck began to contribute short stories and serials to magazines from 1905. She published her first novel, His Official Fiancée, in 1914,[6] which was the subject of two films: His Official Fiancée (1919, silent film directed by Robert G. Vignola) and Hans officiella fästmö (1944, Swedish film directed by Nils Jerring).


Partial bibliography



Novels



Short story

  • "The Picturesque Young Packards" (The Jabberwock, January 1906)

Non-fiction

  • A Story-Teller Tells the Truth (1935)
  • ’’A Smile for the Past’’ (Autobiography)’’
  • A Trickle of Welsh Blood (an autobiography) (1967)
  • ’’An Asset to Wales’’(1970)
  • Ancestral Voices (1972)

References


  1. "OLIVER, Amy Roberta" in The World Who's who of Women, Vol. 1 (1973), p 651
  2. "RUCK, Berta", in Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers (Macmillan International Higher Education, 1982), p. 597
  3. Who Was Who 1971–1980 (London: A. & C. Black, 1989 reprint ISBN 0-7136-3227-5), p. 691
  4. Bloom, Clive (2008). Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-230-53688-3.
  5. The National Library of Wales. "Berta Ruck". Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  6. "Berta Ruck © Orlando Project". orlando.cambridge.org. Retrieved 18 July 2019.




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