Paula Schwartz (1925-2003) was an American playwright and novelist. Schwartz was the author of 36 Regency romance novels under the pen name Elizabeth Mansfield and of mainstream fiction under the name Paula Reibel, Paula Jonas, and Paula Reid.
Schwartz was born in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. She obtained an undergraduate degree from Hunter College and earned her M.A. in English from the City University of New York.
Schwartz taught drama and English in New York and later moved to Washington, D.C. in 1965, where she taught English at Dunbarton College of Holy Cross, a women's college. She began to write novels when the college closed in 1973, and eventually moved to Annandale, Virginia.
Schwartz's musical, An Accident At Lyme, an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, was staged in Baltimore in 1986 by Theatre Hopkins.
Books As Paula Reibel A Morning Moon; a Jewish family saga spanning the years from 1895 to 1933. (1984, Morrow, )
As Elizabeth Mansfield +TitleYear of first publicationISBNAccidental Romance, The reissued as Whistledown's Shrew1988, Reissue 2023978-1-954434-01-1Bartered Bride, The0-515-08916-8Brilliant Mismatch, A1991, Reissue 2021Christmas Kiss, TheCounterfeit Husband, The0-515-09010-7Duel of Hearts0-515-08846-3Fifth Kiss, TheFrost Fair, TheGrand Deception, A0-441-30172-XGrand Passion, The0-515-08697-5Her Heart's CaptainHer Man of Affairs0-515-08799-8Lady Disguised, The0-896-21972-0Love Lessons19980-515-09210-XMagnificent Masquerade, The0-515-11460-XMarriage of Invonvenience, A0-515-09219-3Matched Pairs0-515-11785-4Miscalculations20000-515-12834-1Mother's Choice0-515-11386-7My Lord Murderer0-515-08743-2Passing Fancies0-515-09175-8Phantom Lover, The0-515-08742-4Poor Caroline0-515-11659-9Prior Engagement, A0-515-10398-5Regency Charade, A0-515-08916-8Regency Holiday, A0-515-10705-0Regency Match0-515-08756-4Regency Sting0-515-08773-4Reluctant Flirt0-515-08937-0Splendid Indiscretion, A0-515-09263-0Very Dutiful Daughter, A9-995-61186-4Winter Wonderland0-515-11234-8
As Paula Reid
Rachel's Passage; An historical novel set in America at the turn of the 19th century, exploring marital abandonment, marriage, and "criminal conversation" (1998 )
As Paula Jonas
To Spite the Devil; An historical novel set in Revolutionary America, in what is now currently one of the boroughs of New York City. (1994 ). This novel is based on the musical The Tory Spinster, by Paula Schwartz and Neil Moyer (1975).
Plays and musicals
Musicals Schwartz collaborated with composers Neil Moyer and Howard Levetsky on several musical projects.
The Tory Spinster, (with Neil Moyer) a musical set in Revolutionary America, won the Delaware Bicentennial Playwriting Contest, sponsored by the Delaware Theatre Association, and was performed in April and May 1975. An Accident At Lyme, (with Neil Moyer), a musical adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion
Plays
Parcel Pickup, a one-act play published in Dramatics Magazine, 1973
References
External links Elizabeth Mansfield (Wayback machine) Elizabeth Mansfield