Anne Rundle
Anne Lamb Rundle | |
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| Born | Anne Lamb 1920 Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England, UK |
| Died | 1989 (aged 68–69) |
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| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1967–1986 |
| Genre | Gothic and romantic fiction |
| Notable awards | RoNA Award |
| Spouse | Edwin Charles Rundle |
| Children | 3 |
Anne Rundle (née Lamb; 1920 – 1989) was a British author of more than 40 gothic and romance novels. 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 Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.[1]
Biography
[edit]Personal life
[edit]Rundle was born in 1920[2] in Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland,[3] the daughter of Annie Sanderson and George Manners Lamb, a soldier.[4] She was educated at Army Schools, and attended Berwick High School for Girls.[3]
On 1 October 1949, she married Edwin Charles Rundle. They had one daughter, Anne, and two sons, James and Iain.[4] Anne Rundle died in 1989.
Career and works
[edit]She worked as civil servant on Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association for her novels Cat on a Broomstick (1970) and Flower of Silence (1971). In 1974, she was named Daughter of Mark Twain.[4]
Published books
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As Anne Rundle[edit]Novels
As Joanne Marshall[edit]Novels[5]
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As Marianne Lamont[edit]Novels
As Alexandra Manners[edit]Novels[6]
As Jeanne Sanders[edit]Novels
As Georgianna Bell[edit]Novels
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References
[edit]- ^ Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 5 August 2012
- ^ Crime Fiction IV: A Comprehensive Bibliography 1749–2000 by Allen J. Hubin, 5 August 2012
- ^ a b James Vinson; D. L. Kirkpatrick (1982), Twentieth-century romance and gothic writers, Gale Research, p. 898
- ^ a b c Robert Reginald; Douglas Menville; Mary A. Burgess (1979), Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Volumen 2, p. 1142
- ^ Joanne Marshall at FantasticFiction, 5 August 2012
- ^ Alexandra Manners at FantasticFiction, 5 August 2012
External links
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- Anne Rundle at Library of Congress, with 1 library catalogue record
- Marianne Lamont[permanent dead link], Alexandra Manners[permanent dead link], and Joanne Marshall at LC Authorities, with 3, 6, and 2 records
- LaMont, Manners, and Marshall in WorldCat libraries
| International | |
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| National | |
- 1920 births
- 1989 deaths
- People from Berwick-upon-Tweed
- English romantic fiction writers
- RoNA Award winners
- Writers from Northumberland
- 20th-century English novelists
- 20th-century English women writers
- British women romantic fiction writers
- English women novelists
- Pseudonymous women writers
- 20th-century pseudonymous writers