 In the 1950s she wrote as Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Rose Burghley, and Mary Whistler to Mills & Boon; as Averil Ives and Barbara Rowan to Ward Lock; as Anita Charles to Wright & Brown; and as Jane Beaufort to Collins.In 1964, she published under her married name, Ida Pollock, her first historical novel, "The Gentle Masquerade", and after the success of it, Mills and Boon's "Masquerade" series of historical romances was launched.Under her last pseudonym, Marguerite Bell, she also wrote historical romances.