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Essie Summers
Essie Summers (born Ethel Snelson Summers, 24 July 1912 – 27 August 1998) was a New Zealand writer whose romance novels sold more than 19 million copies in 105 countries. She was known as New Zealand's "Queen of Romance." Writing Despite the responsibilities of being a minister's wife and the mother of two children, Summers found time to pen short stories, poetry, and newspaper columns before embarking on her first novel, which sold to the publishing firm of Mills & Boon in 1956. Entitled ''New Zealand Inheritance'', it was published in 1957. "All her romances depict strong-charactered heroines who work for a living. Because most of them marry heroes with farms to run, these women continue to work after marriage and children, and there are many positive portraits of other farming women in the novels." This aspect of her writing suited Mills & Boon's general ethos at the time of her writing, when partnerships between husbands and wives was "a constant theme, ... often used to ...
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Christchurch
Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon River / Ōtākaro flows through the centre of the city, with an urban park along its banks. The city's territorial authority population is people, and includes a number of smaller urban areas as well as rural areas. The population of the urban area is people. Christchurch is the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand, after Auckland. It is the major urban area of an emerging sub-region known informally as Greater Christchurch. Notable smaller urban areas within this sub-region include Rangiora and Kaiapoi in Waimakariri District, north of the Waimakariri River, and Rolleston and Lincoln in Selwyn District to the south. The first inhabitants migrated to the area sometime between 1000 and 1250 AD. They hunted moa, which led ...
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Margaret Malcolm
Margaret Lilian Malcolm ( Graham, 17 January 1900 – 11 December 1980) was a British writer of over 100 romance novels published by Mills & Boon Mills & Boon is a romance imprint of British publisher Harlequin UK Ltd. It was founded in 1908 by Gerald Rusgrove Mills and Charles Boon as a general publisher. The company moved towards escapist fiction for women in the 1930s. In 1971, the ... from 1940 to 1981. Bibliography * ''Love Without Wings'' (1940) a.k.a. ''Surgeon's Wife'' * ''Loving Heart'' (1940) * ''One Stopped at Home'' (1941) * ''Where Fairy Tales End'' (1941) * ''The Healing Touch'' (1942) a.k.a. ''Village Hospital'' * ''Spring of Love'' (1942) * ''The Enchanted Years'' (1943) * ''Kind and Gentle is She'' (1944) a.k.a. ''Dr. Gregory Misunderstands'' * ''The Master of Normanhurst'' (1944) * ''April's Doubting Day'' (1945) * ''Heart's Desire'' (1945) * ''The Steadfast Flame'' (1945) * ''A Heart to Pity'' (1946) * ''No Cure For Love'' (1946) * ''The Thorny R ...
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People From Christchurch
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New Zealand Romantic Fiction Writers
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Mary Wibberley
Mary Wibberley ( – 29 December 2013) was an English romantic fiction writer. Born in Worsley, she wrote 48 novels for Mills & Boon Mills & Boon is a romance imprint of British publisher Harlequin UK Ltd. It was founded in 1908 by Gerald Rusgrove Mills and Charles Boon as a general publisher. The company moved towards escapist fiction for women in the 1930s. In 1971, the .... Her first novel, ''Black Niall'', was published in 1973. Wibberley died following a short illness on 29 December 2013, aged 79. Her funeral took place on 30 December. References 1930s births 2013 deaths People from Worsley English romantic fiction writers Women romantic fiction writers English women novelists 20th-century English novelists 20th-century English women writers {{England-novelist-stub ...
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Betty Neels
Betty Neels (born 15 September 1909 in Leyton, England – d. 7 June 2001 in England) was a prolific British writer of over 134 romance novels (first publication entirely for Mills & Boon in United Kingdom and later reprinted in the North America by Harlequin), beginning in 1969 and continuing until her death. Her work is known for being particularly chaste. Biography Personal life Evelyn Jessy "Betty" Neels was born on 15 September 1909 in Leyton''Certified copy of an entry of birth'' for Evelyn Jessy Neels (General Register Office for England and Wales) (then part of Essex but now in Greater London) to a family with firm roots in the Civil Service. She spent her childhood and youth in Devonshire. She was sent away to boarding school, and then went on to train as a nurse, gaining her SRN and SCM, that is, State Registered Nurse and State Certificate of Midwifery. In 1939 she was called up to the Territorial Army Nursing Service (TANS), which later became the Queen Alexandra ...
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Margaret Rome
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Susan Barrie
Ida Julia Pollock ( Crowe; 12 April 1908 – 3 December 2013) was a British writer of several short-stories and over 125 romance novels that were published under her married name, Ida Pollock, and under a number of different pseudonyms: Joan M. Allen; Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler and Marguerite Bell. She has sold millions of copies over her 90-year career. She has been referred to as the "world's oldest novelist" who was still active at 105 and continued writing until her death. On the occasion of her 105th birthday, Pollock was appointed honorary vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association, having been one of its founding members. Ida and her husband, Lt Colonel Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO (1888–1971), a veteran of war and Winston Churchill's collaborator and editor, had a daughter, Rosemary Pollock, who is also a romance writer. Ida's autobiography, ''Starlight'', published in 2009 ...
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