Rosemary Aitken

Rosemary Aitken (born Rosemary Rowe in 1942 in Penzance, Cornwall, England) is an English author known for academic textbooks on English language teaching, historical novels set in Cornwall under her own name, and a series of Roman Britain whodunnits as Rosemary Rowe featuring the sleuth Libertus in Glevum (modern Gloucester). She spent much of her early life in New Zealand, earning degrees from Sydney and Victoria Universities, taught English as a second language in New Zealand and England, and began writing fiction seriously after an industrial accident ended her lecturing career.[1][2][3]