Jay Blakeney (20 June 1929 – 24 October 2007) was a British writer and newspaper reporter, well known as a
romance
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Common meanings
* Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings
* Romance languages, ...
novelist under the
pen names
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Anne Weale and Andrea Blake. She wrote over 88 books 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 ...
from 1955 to 2002. She died on 24 October 2007; at the time of her death she was writing her autobiography, ''88 Heroes…1 Mr Right''.
Biography
Anne Weale was a journalist and writer who lived mainly in Europe. She was best known for her romance novels of the 1980s. She published her first romance novel as Anne Weale in 1955 and her last novel in 2002.
Weale attended
Norwich High School for Girls
Norwich High School for Girls is an independent day school for girls aged 3 to 18 in Norwich, England. The school was founded in 1875 by the Girls’ Public Day School Company (now the Girls' Day School Trust), which aimed to establish schools ...
.
She began her writing career while she was still at school, selling short stories to a women's magazine. Later, she worked as a journalist to further her career and hone her writing. She worked as reporter for three different British papers until she decided to focus more exclusively on her novels.
Weale was a passionate traveller, which is reflected in her stories featuring many different exotic locations as the setting. When not travelling, Weale and her husband, who had a son who leads adventure expeditions, spent winters in Spain and summers on the island of Guernsey.
Weale published numerous books, including numerous romance novels which have appeared in various series through the 1980s and 90s. Anne considered her longer novels her greatest works. These books were written in the 1980s and are now out of print. Nevertheless, readers all over the world continue to find her books in second-hand bookshops and libraries. The majority of these titles focus on a fictional English country manor, Longwarden, and its inhabitants throughout time.
From 1998 to 2004, Anne wrote a website review column, called Bookworm on the Net, for ''The Bookseller'', the UK's leading weekly book trade magazine read by 80,000 people in 96 countries. In May 2005 she began
book-blogof the same name, and at the time of her death she was working on an autobiography called 88 Heroes...1 Mr. Right.
Bibliography
Weale's books have been translated into Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, Danish, Greek, Italian, Arabic, German, French, Polish and Afrikaans.
As Anne Weale
Single novels
* ''Winter is Past'' (1955)
* ''The Lonely Shore'' (1956)
* ''The House of Seven Fountains'' (1957)
* ''Never to love'' (1958)
* ''Sweet to Remember'' (1958)
* ''Castle in Corsica'' (1959)
* ''Hope for Tomorrow'' (1959)
* ''A Call for Nurse Templar = Nurse Templar'' (1960)
* ''Until We Met'' (1961)
* ''The Doctor's Daughters'' (1962)
* ''The House on Flamingo Cay'' (1962)
* ''If This is Love'' (1963)
* ''The Silver Dolphin'' (1963)
* ''All I Ask'' (1964)
* ''Islands of Summer'' (1964)
* ''Three Weeks in Eden = Doctor in Malaya'' (1964)
* ''Girl About Town = Christina Comes To Town'' (1965)
* ''The Feast of Sara'' (1965)
* ''Terrace in the Sun'' (1966)
* ''The Sea Waif'' (1967)
* ''South from Sounion'' (1968)
* ''The Man in Command'' (1968)
* ''Sullivan's Reef'' (1970)
* ''Summer Lightning = That Man Simon'' (1971)
* ''A Treasure for Life'' (1972)
* ''The Fields of Heaven'' (1973)
* ''Lord of the Sierras'' (1974)
* ''The Sun in Splendour'' (1975)
* ''Bid Time Return'' (1977)
* ''Stowaway'' (1978)
* ''Now or Never'' (1978)
* ''The River Room'' (1978)
* ''Separate Bedrooms'' (1979)
* ''The Girl from the Sea'' (1979)
* ''The First Officer'' (1980)
* ''A Touch of the Devil'' (1980)
* ''The Last Night at Paradise'' (1980)
* ''Bed of Roses'' (1981)
* ''Rain of Diamonds'' (1981)
* ''Blue Days at Sea'' (1981)
* ''Passage to Paxos'' (1981)
* ''Antigua Kiss'' (1982)
* ''Wedding of the year'' (1982)
* ''All That Heaven Allows'' (1983)
* ''Yesterday's Island'' (1983)
* ''Ecstasy'' (1983)
* ''Summer's Awakening'' (1984)
* ''Frangipani'' (1985)
* ''Night Train'' (1987)
* ''Lost Lagoon'' (1987)
* ''Neptune's Daughter'' (1987)
* ''Catalan Christmas'' (1988)
* ''Do You Remember Babylon?'' (1989)
* ''Sea Fever'' (1990)
* ''Pink Champagne'' (1991)
* ''The Singing Tree'' (1992)
* ''Footprints in the Sand'' (1992)
* ''The Fabergé Cat'' (1993)
* ''Turkish Delights'' (1993)
* ''Seascape'' (1995)
* ''Never Go Back'' (1995)
* ''A Night to Remember'' (1996)
* ''Sophie's Secret'' (1996)
* ''A Marriage Has Been Arranged'' (1997)
* ''The Youngest Sister'' (1997)
* ''The Impatient Virgin'' (1998)
* ''The Bartered Bride'' (1998)
* ''Sleepless Nights'' (1999)
* ''Desert Honeymoon'' (1999)
* ''Worthy of Marriage'' (2000)
* ''Sea Change'' (2002)
''Castle'' series
# ''Portrait of Bethany'' (1982)
# ''Girl in a Golden Bed'' (1986)
Longwarden Saga
# ''Flora'' (1983)
# ''All My Worldly Goods'' (1987)
# ''Time and Chance'' (1989) (AKA ''The Fountain of Delight'')
''Valdecarrasca'' series
# ''A Spanish Honeymoon'' (2002)
# ''The Man from Madrid'' (2002)
''First Class'' series (multi-author)
* ''Thai Silk'' (1990)
''Man of the World'' series (multi-author)
* ''Tequila Sunrise'' (1994)
Omnibus collections
* ''3 Great Novels: Doctor in Malaya / The Feast of Sara / The Sea Waif'' (1976)
* ''The Best of Anne Weale: The First Officer / The Stowaway'' (1984)
Anthologies in collaboration
*''Golden Harlequin Library Vol. XXI: The Doctor's Daughters / Gates of Dawn / The Gift at Snowy River'' (1972) (with
Susan Barrie and
Joyce Dingwell)
* ''Send for Nurse Vincent / Island For Sale / Winter is Past'' (1973) (with
Margaret Malcolm and
Alex Stuart)
* ''Day That the Rain Came Down / Turning Tide / Sullivan's Reef'' (1974) (with
Isobel Chace Isobel, is the Scottish form of the female given name Isabel. It originates from the medieval form of the name Elisabeth (Hebrew Elisheba).
Isobel is a feminine given name. People named Isobel include:
* Isobel of Huntingdon (1199-1251), Scottish ...
and
Margaret Malcolm)
* ''Stranger in the Glen / The Man at Kambala / Lord of the Sierras'' (1978) (with
Flora Kidd and
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 pr ...
)
* ''Boardroom Affairs'' (2000) (with
Day Leclaire
Day Leclaire is an American author of more than forty romance novels.
Biography
Early years
Day Leclaire started writing when she was just a child. After a long day of trying to keep occupied in the midst of a snowstorm, Leclaire and her three ...
and
Leigh Michaels
Leigh Michaels is the pseudonym used by LeAnn Lemberger (born July 27, 1954 in Iowa, United States), a popular United States writer of over 80 romance novels. She published her novels in Harlequin Enterprises Ltd since 1984 to 2006. She also te ...
)
* ''Marriages by Arrangement'' (2000) (with
Diana Hamilton and
Cathy Williams
Cathy Williams (born 1957 in Trinidad and Tobago) is a British writer of romance novels in Mills & Boon since 1990.
Biography
Cathy Williams was born in 1957 in Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies. She lives in Chiswick, London, England, w ...
)
* ''Taming the Playboy'' (2001) (with
Catherine George
Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria.
In the early Chris ...
and
Susan Napier)
As Andrea Blake
Single novels
* ''September in Paris'' (1961)
* ''Whisper of Doubt'' (1962)
* ''Now and Always'' (1964)
* ''The Night of the Hurricane'' (1965)
References
External links
Anne Weale's official blogAnne Weale's webpage in Fantastic Fiction's WebsiteHarlequin Enterprises Ltd's website
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1929 births
2007 deaths
English romantic fiction writers
English women novelists
Women romantic fiction writers
20th-century English novelists
20th-century English women writers