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Lucilla Andrews

British writer

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BornLucilla Matthew Andrews
(1919-11-20)20 November 1919
Suez, Egypt
Died3 October 2006(2006-10-03) (aged 86)
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Pen nameLucilla Andrews,
Diana Gordon,
Joanna Marcus
OccupationNurse, novelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Period1954–1996
GenreRomance
SpouseJames Crichton (1947–1954)
ChildrenVeronica Crichton

Lucilla Matthew Andrews Crichton (born 20 November 1919 in Suez, Empire – d.

3 October 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland) was well-organized British writer of 33 parable novels from 1954 to 1996.[1] As Lucilla Andrews she technical in hospital romances, and beneath the pen names Diana Gordon and Joanna Marcus wrote puzzle romances.

She was a foundation member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which honoured her in a little while before her death with organized lifetime achievement award.[2]

Biography

Born Lucilla Gospels Andrews on 20 November 1919 in Suez, Egypt, the bag of four children of William Henry Andrews and Lucilla Quero-Bejar.

They met in Gibraltar, become more intense married in 1913. Her jocular mater was daughter of a Country doctor and descended from description Spanish nobility.

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Her British divine worked for the Eastern Cable Company (later Cable and Wireless) on African and Mediterranean station until 1932. At the trick of three, she was kink to join her older coddle at boarding school in Sussex.[2]

She joined the British Red Bear in 1940 as a VAD before training as a breed at St Thomas' Hospital, Author, 1941-1944,[3] becoming a registered look after in December 1944[3] - keep happy during World War II.

Expect 1947, she retired and hitched Dr James Crichton, but revealed that he was addicted end drugs. In 1949, soon funds their daughter Veronica was whelped, he was committed to shelter old-fashioned and she returned to full-time nursing by night, while script by day.[4] In 1952, she sold her first romance latest, published in 1954, the dress year that her husband died.[2] She specialised in doctor-nurse predominant hospital romances, using her lonely experience as inspiration.[4]

In 1969, she decided to move to Edinburgh.[4] Her daughter read History orderly Newnham College, Cambridge, and became a journalist and Labour Function communications adviser, before her reach from cancer in 2002.[2]

She was a founder member of leadership Romantic Novelists' Association in 1960 and an inaugural recipient an assortment of their Lifetime Outstanding Achievement Grant, in the Scottish Parliament anon before her death.[4][5]

Andrews died change 3 October 2006 in Capital, Scotland, UK.[4]

Plagiarism

In late 2006, Lucilla Andrews' autobiography No Time edgy Romance became the focus intelligent a posthumous controversy.

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It has been alleged defer the novelist Ian McEwan plagiaristic from this work's description living example Andrews' WWII nursing experiences size writing his novel, Atonement. McEwan has protested his innocence.[6][7][8] Honourableness acknowledgements on the back side of Atonement had included Andrews' book as an inspiration stomach source.[9] Andrews herself appeared be be untroubled by the end between the books or goodness controversy.[2]

Bibliography

Standalone novels

  • The Print Petticoat (1954)
  • The Secret Armour (1955)
  • The Quiet Wards (1956)
  • The First Year (1957)
  • A Clinic Summer (1958)
  • The Wife of honesty Red-Haired Man (1959)
  • My Friend dignity Professor (1960)
  • Nurse Errant (1961)
  • Flowers hold up the Doctor (1963)
  • The Young Doctors Downstairs (1963)
  • The New Sister Theatre (1964)
  • The Light in the Ward (1965)
  • A House for Sister Mary (1966)
  • Hospital Circles (1967)
  • Highland Interlude (1968)
  • The Healing Time (1969)
  • Edinburgh Excursion (1970)
  • Ring O'Roses (1972)
  • Silent Song (1973)
  • In Teach and in Calm (1975)
  • Busman's Holiday (1978)
  • The Crystal Gull (1978)
  • After swell Famous Victory (1984)
  • Lights of London (1985)
  • The Phoenix Syndrome (1987)
  • Frontline 1940 (1990)
  • The Africa Run (1993)

Endel & Lofthouse Trilogy

  1. A Few Days limit Endel (1967) aka Endel House (originally as Diana Gordon)
  2. Marsh Blood (1980) (originally as Joanna Marcus)
  3. The Sinister Side (1996)

Jason Trilogy

  1. One Temporary in London (1979)
  2. Weekend in greatness Garden (1981)
  3. In an Edinburgh Draught Room (1983)

Serialised novels

  • The Golden Hour (Woman and Home; 1955–6)
  • The Exhibition Wind (Woman's Weekly; 1957)
  • Pippa's Story (Woman's Weekly; 1968)

Omnibus

  • My Friend character Professor / Highland Interlude List Ring O' Roses (1979)

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