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About Ronald James Marsh
- Ronald James Marsh (7 August 1914 – 11 January 1987), was a British author who was born in Broadstairs in Kent and spent much of his life in Rochester, where he was City Librarian.
- The son of Donald Alfred Sackett Marsh and Helen Cicely Perkins, he was born on 7 August 1914 and died aged 72 in Chatham, Kent, on 11 January 1987.
- He married first in Thanet in 1936, Maud Ethel Chandler and second in Oxford in 1947, Phyllis Glenice Higgins. His most widely known novel, Irene (1949), was made into a 1950 film Once a Sinner starring: Patricia Kirkwood - Irene JamesJack Watling - John RossJoy Shelton - Vera LambSydney Tafler - Jimmy SmartThora Hird - Mrs.
- James The story is that of John Ross, a bank clerk, who is in love with Irene James for whom he will do anything, including stooping to crime.
- Irene cannot give up her criminal former boyfriend, Jimmy Smart, while John realises, too late, that he should have remained with his former fiancée.
- The story ultimately ends in the tragedy so often associated with obsessive love.
- [1] Ronald Marsh's other novels include: Your Brother Still (1953), which concerns arson in a dockyard (an offence still punishable by death at that time); and The Quarry (1962), which was reviewed as being similar in style to Thomas Hardy in its depiction of a man's endurance in the face of the onset of despair.
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