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Eileen Norah Owbridge (''née'' Murphy; 8 September 1903 – 4 February 1994) was a British writer who under the pseudonym Jane Arbor wrote 57 romances 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 1948 to 1985. She wrote doctor-nurse and foreign romances. Many of her doctor-nurse romances have been re-edited with different titles, that included medical words. She lived in Preston, Sussex, England.


Bibliography


As Jane Arbor


Single novels

*''This Second Spring'', (1948) *''Each Song Twice Over'', (1948) *''Ladder of Understanding'', (1949) *''Strange Loyalties = Doctor's Love'', (1949) *''By Yet Another Door = Nurse in Waiting'', (1950) *''No Lease for Love = My Surgeon Neighbor'', (1950) *''The Heart Expects Adventure'', (1951) *''Memory Serves My Love'', (1952) *''The Eternal Circle = Nurse Atholl Returns'', (1952) *''Flower of the Nettle = Consulting Surgeon'', (1953) *''Such Frail Armour = Nurse in Love'', (1953) *''Folly of the Heart = Nurse Harlowe'', (1954) *''Jess Mawney, Queen's Nurse = Queen's Nurse'', (1954) *''Dear Intruder'', (1955) *''City Nurse = Nurse Greve'', (1956) *''Towards the Dawn'', (1956) *''Yesterday's Magic'', (1957) *''Far Sanctuary'', (1958) *''No Silver Spoon'', (1959) *''Sandflower'', (1959) *''A Girl Named Smith'', (1960) *''Nurse of All Work'', (1962) *''Desert Nurse'', (1963) *''Jasmine Harvest'', (1963) *''Lake of Shadows'', (1964) *''Kingfisher Tide'', (1965) *''High Master of Clere'', (1966) *''Summer Every Day'', (1966) *''Golden Apple Island'', (1967) *''Stranger's Trespass'', (1968) *''The Cypress Garden'', 1969/May) *''Walk into the Wind'', (1970/Jan) *''The Feathered Shaft'', (1970/May) *''The Linden Leaf'', (1971) *''The Other Miss Donne'', (1971/Aug) *''Wildfire Quest'', (1972/Jan) *''The Flower on the Rock'', (1972/Nov) *''Roman Summer'', (1973/Jul) *''The Velvet Spur'', (1974/Mar) *''Meet the Sun Halfway'', (1974/Aug) *''The Wide Fields of Home'', (1975/Mar) *''Smoke into Flame'', (1975/Nov) *''Tree of Paradise'', (1976/Aug) *''Two Pins in a Fountain'', (1977/Jan) *''A Growing Moon'', (1977/Jun) *''Flash of Emerald'', (1977/Dec) *''Return to Silbersee'', (1978/Aug) *''Late Rapture'', (1978/Dec) *''Pact Without Desire'', (1979/Jun) *''The Devil Drives'', (1979/Dec) *''Where The Wolf Leads'', (1980/Jul) *''One Brief Sweet Hour'', (1980/Dec) *''Invisible Wife'', (1981/Jun) *''The Price of Paradise'', (1982/Mar) *''Handmaid to Midas'', (1982/Oct) *''House of Discord'', (1983/Nov) *''Lost Yesterday'', (1985/Jul)


Omnibus collections

*''Feathered Shaft / Wildfire Quest / Flower on the Rock'' (1982)


Anthologies in collaboration

*''Fair Horizon / Desert Nurse / Queen's Counsel'' (1970) (with Rosalind Brett and Alex Stuart) *''Golden Harlequin Library Vol. XVII: No Silver Spoon / Nurse Nolan / The Time and the Place'' (1971) (with Susan Barrie and
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 th ...
) *''Light in the Tower / Along The Ribbonwood Track / The Linden Leaf'' (1975) (with Jean S. MacLeod and Mary Moore) *''Roman Summer / Flamboyant Tree / Black Niall'' (1977) (with Isobel Chace and
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 Geral ...
) *''Velvet Spur / The Habit of Love / Extraordinary Engagement'' (1979) (with Joyce Dingwell and Marjorie Lewty) *''Other Miss Donne / Thistle and the Rose / Beyond the Foothills'' (1985) (with Margaret Rome and
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 th ...
) *''One Brief Sweet Hour / Once More With Feeling / Blue Lotus'' (1990) (with Natalie Sparks and
Margaret Way Margaret Way (b. Brisbane d. Cleveland, Queensland, Australia ) was an Australian writer of romance novels and women's fiction. A prolific author, Way wrote more than 120 novels since 1970, many through Mills & Boon, a romance imprint of Briti ...
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References and sources

{{DEFAULTSORT:Arbor, Jane 1903 births 1994 deaths People from Yeovil English romantic fiction writers English women novelists Women romantic fiction writers 20th-century English women writers 20th-century English novelists