External links
- Jane Donnelly's Webpage in Fantastic Fiction's Website
- Harlequin Enterprises Ltd's Website
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Jane Donnelly | |
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| Pen name | Jane Donnelly |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Period | 1965–2000 |
| Genre | Romantic novel |
Jane Donnelly is a British writer. During period of 1965 to 2000, she wrote more than 60 romance novels from Mills & Boon. [1] Her novels are characterized as "happy escapist reading". [2]
Betty Neels was a prolific British writer of over 134 romance novels, beginning in 1969 and continuing until her death. Her work is known for being particularly chaste.
Sheila Holland, née Sheila Ann Mary Coates was best known under the pseudonym Charlotte Lamb as a prolific romantic novelist. She signed her novels with her married or maiden names – Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates – and under the pseudonyms Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. She was married to Richard Holland. They had five children, including a set of twins: - Michael Holland, Sarah Holland, Jane Holland, Charlotte Holland and David Holland.
Anne Mather is the pseudonym used by Mildred Grieveson, a popular British author of over 160 romance novels. She also signed novels as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming.
Janet Anne Haradon Dailey was an American author of numerous romance novels as Janet Dailey. Her novels have been translated into nineteen languages and have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. Dailey was both an author and entrepreneur.
Margaret Way is an Australian writer of romance novels and women's fiction. A prolific author, Way has written more than 120 novels since 1970, many through Mills & Boon, a romance imprint of British publisher Harlequin UK Ltd., owned by Harlequin Enterprises.
Anne Ashurst, who wrote using the pseudonym Sara Craven, was a British author of over 80 romance novels. Her novels were published by Mills & Boon from 1975. In 2010 she became chairman of the Southern Writers' Conference, and the next year was elected the 26th Chairman (2011–2013) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Kay Thorpe 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 produced a body of sensuous work that investigates heritage, family, class and love. Her forte is to encode the opposing reading within the classic Harlequin plot. A synopsis of the author that accompanies her publications notes that she researched the market for romance fiction before electing to write in this category. Her first book published in North America established her reputation as a gifted storyteller. She has a strong vital writing style.
Anne Hampson was a British writer of over 125 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1969 to 1998. She published historical romance novels under the pseudonym Jane Wilby. Although she retired in 1998, in 2005 she published two romance and a crime novel. She has written an autobiography entitled Fate Was My Friend.
Violet Winspear was a British writer of 70 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1961 to 1987.
Yvonne Whittal is a popular writer of 45 romance novels in Mills & Boon since 1975.
Flora Kidd, née Cartwright was a British-Canadian popular writer of over 70 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1966 to 2000.
Margaret Pargeter is the nom-de-plume used by a popular writer of 50 romantic novels in Mills & Boon from 1975 to 1986. No information exists as to the true identity or identities of the writer(s) who employed this pen name.
Marjorie Lewty, née Lobb was a British writer of short stories and over 45 romance novels from 1958 to 1999 for Mills & Boon.
William Edward Daniel Ross was a Canadian actor, playwright, and bestselling writer of more than 300 novels in a variety of genres. He was known for the speed of his writing and was, by some estimates, the most prolific Canadian author ever, though he did not take up fiction until middle age.
Eileen Norah Owbridge was a British writer who under the pseudonym Jane Arbor wrote 57 romances for Mills & Boon from 1948 to 1985.
Sara Seale, was the pseudonym by Mary Jane MacPherson and/or A.D.L. MacPherson, a British writing team of over 45 romance novels as from 1932 to 1971. Seale was one of the first Mills & Boon's authors published in Germany and the Netherlands. By the 1950s Seale was earning over £3,000/year.
Mary Mussi, née Edgar, was a British writer of over 50 romance novels as Mary Howard, who also wrote over 10 gothic romance as Josephine Edgar. She is one of the two novelists to win three times the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Jean S. MacLeod was a prolific British writer of over 130 romance novels from 1936 to 1996, she also used the pseudonym of Catherine Airlie.
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