Marjorie Lewty, née ''Lobb'' (b. 8 April 1906 in
Wallasey,
Cheshire, England, United Kingdom – d. 21 January 2002) was a British
writer
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, p ...
of short stories and over 45
romance novel
A romance novel or romantic novel generally refers to a type of genre fiction novel which places its primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and usually has an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Pr ...
s from 1958 to 1999 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 ...
.
Biography
Marjorie Lobb was born on 8 April 1906 in
Wallasey,
Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, the daughter of James, a sailor in the Merchant Navy, and Mabel, the manager of the Queen's Cinema in
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...
. She studied at
Queen Mary High School in Liverpool, but her plans to study sciences at university were thwarted when her father died. She was forced to take a hated job as secretary of the District Bank Ltd. from 1923 to 1933, when she married Richard Arthur Lewty, a dental surgeon of Liverpool. They had one son
Simon Lewty, and one daughter, Deborah (Bornoff). After her marriage, she began to write short stories that were published in magazines. In 1958, she sold her first romance novel to Mills & Boon, and her last novel in 1999. Her husband died in 1978, and she died on 21 January 2002.
Bibliography
Single novels
*''Never Call It Loving'' (1958)
*''The Million Stars'' (1959)
*''Imperfect Secretary'' (1959)
*''The Lucky One'' (1961)
*''This Must Be for Ever'' (1962)
*''Alex Rayner, Dental Nurse'' (1965)
*''Dental Nurse at Denley's'' (1968)
*''Town Nurse – Country Nurse'' (1970)
*''The Extraordinary Engagement'' (1972)
*''Rest Is Magic'' (1973)
*''All Made of Wishes'' (1974)
*''Flowers in Stony Places'' (1975)
*''Fire in the Diamond'' (1976)
*''To Catch a Butterfly'' (1977)
*''Time and the Loving'' (1977)
*''The Short Engagement'' (1978)
*''A Very Special Man'' (1979)
*''A Certain Smile'' (1979)
*''Prisoner in Paradise'' (1980)
*''Love Is a Dangerous Game'' (1980)
*''Beyond the Lagoon'' (2016)
*''Girl Betwitched'' (1981)
*''Makeshift Marriage'' (1982)
*''Dangerous Male'' (1983)
*''One Who Kisses'' (1983)
*''Lover's Knot'' (1984)
*''Riviera Romance'' (1984)
*''Acapulco Moonlight'' (1985)
*''Lake in Kyoto'' (1985)
*''Villa in the sun'' (1986)
*''In Love with the Man'' (1986)
*''Honeymoon Island'' (1987)
*''Bittersweet Honeymoon'' (1988)
*''Falling in Love Again'' (1988)
*''Kiss Is Still a Kiss'' (1989)
*''Lightning Strike'' (1990)
*''Man-trap'' (1990)
*''Deep Water'' (1991)
*''The Beginning of the Affair'' (1992)
*''Little White Lies'' (1993)
*''Step in the Dark'' (1994)
*''An Ambitious Heart'' (1995)
*''Misleading Engagement'' (1996)
*''A Real Engagement'' (1999)
Omnibus in collaboration
*''Runaway Visitors / Tower of the Winds / Rest is Magic'' (1977) (with
Eleanor Farnes and
Elizabeth Hunter)
*''Shadows on the Sand / All Made of Wishes / Sweet Roots and Honey'' (1979) (with
Elizabeth Hoy and
Gwen Westwood)
*''Velvet Spur / The Habit of Love / Extraordinary Engagement'' (1979) (with
Jane Arbor
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 from 1948 to 1985.
She wrote doctor-nurse and foreign romances. Many of h ...
and
Joyce Dingwell)
*''Flowers in Stony Places / The Flight of the Hawk / Ross of Silver Ridge'' (1981) (with
Rebecca Stratton and
Gwen Westwood)
*''The Beach of Sweet Returns / To Catch a Butterfly / Heart in the Sunlight'' (1982) (with
Margery Hilton)
*''The House in the Foothills / The Short Engagement / Henrietta's Own Castle'' (1986) (with
Mons Daveson and
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 Amer ...
)
References and sources
Harlequin Enterprises Ltd
External links
Marjorie Lewty's Webpagein Fantastic Fiction's Website
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1906 births
2002 deaths
British romantic fiction writers
20th-century British novelists