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Anne Mather
Anne Mather is the pseudonym used by Mildred Grieveson (born 10 October 1936 in England, United Kingdom), a popular British author of over 160 romance novels. She also signed novels as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming. Mildred Grieveson began to write down stories in her childhood years. The first novel that she actually finished, ''Caroline'' (1965), was also her first book to be published. Her novel, '' Leopard in the Snow'' (1974), was developed into a 1978 film. Biography Personal life Mildred Grieveson was born on 10 October 1946 in England. She always wanted to write, and for years she wrote for her own pleasure. She had written all through her infant and junior years and on into her teens, the stories changing from children's adventures to torrid gypsy passions. Her mother used to gather these up from time to time, when her bedroom became too untidy, and disposed of these manuscripts. Mildred married very young and became a housewife. Her husband suggested that she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Linda Randall Wisdom
Linda Randall Wisdom is an American author of contemporary romance novels. Biography Wisdom began writing in 1978, and sold her first two novels, ''Dancer in the Shadows'' and ''Fourteen Karat Beauty'' to Silhouette Romance in 1979. After her supervisor discovered that she had written the books, he fired her from her job as the office manager for a personnel agency, and she turned to writing fiction full-time. Wisdom has twice been nominated for a ''Romantic Times'' Reviewers' Choice Award, in 2002 for ''Two Little Secrets'' and in 2003 for ''Pregnancy Countdown''. She has been a multi recipient of the ''Romantic Times'' Career Achievement Award. Works Novels *''Dancer in the Shadow'' (1981) *''Fourteen Karat Beauty'' (1982) *''Bright Tomorrow'' (1982) *''Man with Doubts'' (1982) *''Dreams from the Past'' (1983) *''Unspoken Past'' (1983) *''Guardian Angel'' (1983) *''Snow Queen'' (1984) *''For Better or Worse'' (1984) *''Caution: Man at Work'' (1984) *''Love Has Many Voices'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Wood (novelist)
Sara Wood (b. 1941 in England) was a popular British writer of 49 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1986 to 2004. 'Mills & Boon website'' Biography Sara Wood was born on 1941 in the south of England. Her family was poor but aspirational and avid readers. At the age of 11 Sara won a scholarship for a free place at a well-known fee-paying school. Although she passed all of her O level exams at the age of 16, she left school to train as a secretary and to help the family finances. Married at 21, with her two sons Richard and Simon being born in the following 3 years, she fitted in care of her young children by starting up a play group and then providing bed and breakfast for tourists in her seaside home. The marriage eventually ended in divorce and Sara needed to find an occupation that would be suitable for her sch ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Thorpe
Kay Thorpe (born 1935) is a British author of more than 75 romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon since 1968. All her novels have also been published under Harlequin Enterprises Limited. Over a period of four decades, she has produced a body of sensuous work that investigates heritage, family, class and love. Her forte is to encode the opposing reading within the classic Harlequin plot. A synopsis of the author that accompanies her publications notes that she researched the market for romance fiction before electing to write in this category. Her first book published in North America established her reputation as a gifted storyteller. She has a strong vital writing style. As her career graph began in the late 1960s, Kay Thorpe, along with Charlotte Lamb and others, was one of the first writers to explore the boundaries of sexual desire, her novels often reflecting the forefront of the "sexual revolution" of the 1970s. As such she was also one of the first to cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Spencer (novelist)
Catherine Spencer (born 1950) is a popular Canadian writer of over 40 romance novels in Harlequin Enterprises Ltd from 1986 to 2009. She also signed her books as Kathy Orr. Biography Catherine Spencer was born in 1950, and went to a Catholic school. She worked as a High School English teacher. She married and had four children and five dogs. When the menopause approached, Catherine began to write. She published her first novel in 1986. With friend and fellow writer Judith Bowen, she is a co-sponsor of the biennial Singletree Workshop, a weekend retreat for romance writers. Now, Spencer lives with her husband in White Rock, in south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Their four children are adults, and they have eight grandchildren. Bibliography As Catherine Spencer Single Novels *''A Lasting Kind of Love'' (1986) *''Fires of Summer'' (1989) *''The Loving Touch'' (1990) *''Winter Roses'' (1990) *''Dear Miss Jones'' (1991) *''Elegant Barbarian'' (1992) *''Naturally Loving'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Darcy
Emma Darcy is the pseudonym used by the Australian husband–wife writing team of Wendy Brennan (28 November 1940 – 12 December 2020) and Frank Brennan (1936 – 1995), they wrote in collaboration over 45 romance novels. In 1993, for the Emma Darcy pseudonym's 10th anniversary, they created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. After the death of Frank Brennan in 1995, Wendy wrote on her own. She lived in New South Wales, Australia. Darcy sold 60 million books from 1983 to 2001, and averaged six new books per year. In 2002, Darcy's first crime novel ''Who Killed Angelique?'' won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel. In 2003, the next novel, ''Who Killed Bianca'', was a finalist for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel. Personal life Wendy Brennan Wendy was born 28 November 1940 in Australia, she had an Honours degree in Latin and worked as a high school English teacher. She was reputedly the first woman computer programmer in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Craven
Anne Ashurst (née Bushell; October 1938 in Devon, England – 15 November 2017), who wrote using the pseudonym Sara Craven, was a British author of over 80 romance novels. Her novels were published by Mills & Boon from 1975. In 2010 she became chairman of the Southern Writers' Conference, and the next year was elected the 26th Chairman (2011–2013) of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Biography Anne "Annie" Bushell was born in October 1938 in Devon, England. She worked as journalist at the Paignton Observer, but after her marriage, she moved to the north of England, where she worked as teacher. After she returned to journalism, she joined the Middlesbrough Writers' Group, where she met other romance writer Mildred Grieveson (Anne Mather). She started to write romance. In 1975, she sold her first romance novel to Mills & Boon, under the pseudonym of Sara Craven. In 1997, she was the overall winner of the BBC's Mastermind, winning the last final presented by Magnus Magnusson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Baird
Jacqueline Baird (born 1 April in Northumberland, England) is popular English writer of over 30 romance novels since 1988. Awards * Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award 1998. Best Harlequin Presents * Romantic Times Wishes * Numerous Waldenbooks Series Best-seller List * Numerous British Best-seller List * USA Today Best -seller List. April 2010 Bibliography Single novels * ''Dark Desiring'' (1988) * ''Shattered Trust'' (1990) Romano2(Kristine Series) by Martha Cecilia Tagalog version. * ''Passionate Betrayal'' (1991) * ''Dishonourable Proposal'' (1992) * ''Guilty Passion'' (1992) * ''Master of Passion'' (1993) * ''Gamble on Passion'' (1994) * ''Nothing Changes Love'' (1994) * ''A Devious Desire'' (1995) * ''The Valentine Child'' (1995) * ''Raul's Revenge'' (1996) * ''The Reluctant Fiancee'' (1997) * ''Mistaken for a Mistress'' (1997) * ''Giordanni's Proposal'' (1998) * ''A Husband of Convenience'' (1999) * ''Husband on Trust'' (2000) * ''A Most Passionate Revenge'' (2000) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Porter
Jane Porter (3 December 1775 – 24 May 1850) was an English historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure. Her bestselling novels, ''Thaddeus of Warsaw'' (1803) and ''The Scottish Chiefs'' (1810) are seen as among the earliest historical novels in a modern style and among the first to become bestsellers. They were abridged and remained popular among children well into the twentieth century. Life Jane Porter was born in Durham, England, the third of five children of the Irishman William Porter and Jane (''née'' Blenkinsop) of Durham. Tall and beautiful as she grew up, young Jane Porter's grave air earned her the nickname ''Il Penseroso'', after John Milton's poem. After her father's death, Jane's family moved to Edinburgh, where she studied at a charity school under the schoolmaster George Fulton. Her family was acquainted with Sir Walter Scott. After stints in Durham and Ireland, the Porter family moved to London in the 1790s, where the sisters entered a circle of famous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Kendrick
Sharon Kendrick, née ''Wirdnam'' (b. London, England) is a popular British writer of over 100 romance novels published by Mills & Boon since 1993. Her books regularly top the sales charts for romance fiction on both sides of the Atlantic. Biography Sharon Wirdnam born in London, England, daughter of Donald Llewelyn Wirdnam, grew up near Heathrow Airport. She has been a waitress, a cook, a photographer and a nurse and she drove an ambulance across the Australian desert. Sharon currently lives and works in Winchester and Plymouth. She has a daughter and a son. Publications As Sharon Kendrick Single Novels *No Escaping Love (1993) *Cruel Angel (1993) *Sweet Madness (1994) *Potent as Poison (1995) *Savage Seduction (1995) *Passionate Fantasy (1995) *Part-Time Father (1995) *Taking Risks (1996) *Taking It All (1996) *His Baby! (1996) *Untamed Lover (1996) *Mistress Material (1996) *Wait and See (1997) *That Kind of Man (1997) *Long-Distance Marriage (1997) *Make-Over Marriage (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Field
Jill MacLean (born 1941 in England) is a Canadian writer of children's fiction books and, under the pseudonyms of Sandra Field, Jan MacLean and Jocelyn Haley, a popular author of over 70 romance novels for Harlequin Enterprises Ltd since 1974. Biography Jill MacLean was born in 1941 in England. In 1950, her family moved to Nova Scotia, Canada. She graduated in Science with honours from Dalhousie University. After her graduation, she married, and worked on metal-induced rancidity of cod fillets at the Fisheries Research Board, until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. When her husband joined the armed forces as a chaplain, the family moved 3 times in the first 18 months. Her children went to the school, and she did not consider to work. She read a dozen romance novels, and began to write. When she was published in 1974, she decided to use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Mortimer
Carole Mortimer (born 1960 in England) is a popular British writer of over 150 romance novels since 1978. She was one of Mills & Boon's youngest authors, and now is one of their most popular and prolific authors. Biography Carole Mortimer was born about 1960 in a very rural hamlet in the east England, and she had two brothers. She studied only one year of nursing, and ended up working in the computer department of a well-known stationery company, where she started to write her first manuscript. The manuscript was rejected by Mills & Boon, but the second was accepted and was published in 1978 as ''The Passionate Winter''. She became one of the youngest and most prolific Mills & Boon's authors. She celebrated the publication of her 100th book, 20 years after her debut, and 30 years after this, she published her first historical novels, in the Mills & Boon Historical series. In 2012 she was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II for her 'outstanding service to literature'. In 2014 she r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
