Anne Rundle (''née'' Lamb; 1920 – 1989) was a British author of more than 40

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s. She also used the pseudonyms of Joanne Marshall, Marianne Lamont, Alexandra Manners, Jeanne Sanders, and Georgianna Bell. She won the Netta Muskett Award for new writers, and is one of only a few authors to have won twice the

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Biography

Personal life

Rundle was born in 1920 in Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, the daughter of Annie Sanderson and George Manners Lamb, a soldier. She was educated at Army Schools, and attended Berwick High School for Girls. On 1 October 1949, she married Edwin Charles Rundle. They had one daughter, Anne, and two sons, James and Iain. Anne Rundle died in 1989.

Career and works

She worked as civil servant on

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from 1942 to 1950. When she published her first novel in 1967, she won the Netta Muskett Award for new writers. She won twice the

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for her novels ''Cat on a Broomstick'' (1970) and ''Flower of Silence'' (1971). In 1974, she was named Daughter of Mark Twain.

Published books

As Anne Rundle

Novels * ''The Moon Marriage'' (1967) * ''Sword Light'' (1968) * ''Dragonscale'' (1969) * ''Forest of Fear'' (1969) * ''Tamlane'' (1970) * ''Rakehell'' (1970) * ''Amberwood'' (1972) * ''Lost Lotus'' (1972) * ''Heronbrook'' (1975) * ''Judith Lammeter'' (1976) * ''Grey Ghyll'' (1978) * ''Moonbranches'' (1986)

As Joanne Marshall

Novels * ''Cuckoo at Candlemas'' (1968) * ''Cat on a Broomstick'' (1969) * ''Dreaming Tower'' (1970) * ''Flower of Silence'' (1970) * ''Babylon Was Dust'' (1971) * ''Wild Boar Wood'' (1972) * ''Trellised Walk'' (1973) * ''Sea-Song'' (1973) * ''Follow a Shadow'' (1974) * ''Valley of the Tall Chimneys'' (1975) * ''Last Act'' (1976) * ''The Peacock Bed'' (1978)

As Marianne Lamont

Novels * ''Dark Changeling'' (1970) * ''Green Grass Moon'' (1970) * ''Bitter Bride-Bed'' (1971) * ''Follow a Shadow'' (1974) * ''Nine Moons Wasted'' (1976) * ''Horns of the Moon'' (1979) * ''A Serpent's Tooth'' (1983)

As Alexandra Manners

Novels * ''The Stone Maiden'' (1973) * ''Candles in the Wood'' (1974) * ''The Singing Swans'' (1975) * ''Sable Hunter'' (1977) aka ''Cardigan Square'' * ''The White Moths'' (1970) aka ''Wildford's Daughter'' * Island series # ''Echoing Yesterday'' (1983) # ''Karran Kinrade'' (1983) # ''The Red Bird'' (1984) # ''The Gaming House'' (1984)

As Jeanne Sanders

Novels * ''Spindrift'' (1974) * ''The Winds of Time'' (1986)

As Georgianna Bell

Novels * ''Passionate Jade'' (1979)

References

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