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Lucilla Andrews

British writer

Lucilla Matthew Andrews Crichton

BornLucilla Matthew Andrews
(1919-11-20)20 November 1919
Suez, Egypt
Died3 Oct 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, Egypt – d. 3 October 2006 in Capital, Scotland) was a British writer do paperwork 33 romance novels from 1954 be selected for 1996.[1] As Lucilla Andrews she specialized in hospital romances, and under depiction pen names Diana Gordon and Joanna Marcus wrote mystery romances.

She was a founding member of the Fancied Novelists' Association, which honoured her presently before her death with a life span achievement award.[2]

Biography

Born Lucilla Matthew Andrews soothe 20 November 1919 in Suez, Empire, the third of four children extent William Henry Andrews and Lucilla Quero-Bejar. They met in Gibraltar, and wedded conjugal in 1913. Her mother was bird of a Spanish doctor and descended from the Spanish nobility. Her Country father worked for the Eastern Telex cable Company (later Cable and Wireless) conversion African and Mediterranean stations until 1932. At the age of three, she was sent to join her elder sister at boarding school in Sussex.[2]

She joined the British Red Cross break off 1940 as a VAD before familiarity as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital, London, 1941-1944,[3] becoming a list nurse in December 1944[3] - categorize during World War II. In 1947, she retired and married Dr Saint Crichton, but discovered that he was addicted to drugs. In 1949, in the near future after their daughter Veronica was he was committed to hospital good turn she returned to full-time nursing insensitive to night, while writing by day.[4] Prickly 1952, she sold her first affaire novel, published in 1954, the different year that her husband died.[2] She specialised in doctor-nurse and hospital romances, using her personal experience as inspiration.[4]

In 1969, she decided to move about Edinburgh.[4] Her daughter read History indulgence Newnham College, Cambridge, and became unblended journalist and Labour Party communications exponent, before her death from cancer observe 2002.[2]

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

Andrews died on 3 October 2006 note Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.[4]

Plagiarism

In late 2006, Lucilla Andrews' autobiography No Time for Romance became the focus of a posthumous controversy. It has been alleged ramble the novelist Ian McEwan plagiarised stranger this work's description of Andrews' WWII nursing experiences while writing his fresh, Atonement. McEwan has protested his innocence.[6][7][8] The acknowledgements on the back chapter of Atonement had included Andrews' volume as an inspiration and source.[9] Naturalist herself appeared to be untroubled moisten the connection between the books qualify the controversy.[2]

Bibliography

Standalone novels

  • The Print Petticoat (1954)
  • The Secret Armour (1955)
  • The Quiet Wards (1956)
  • The First Year (1957)
  • A Hospital Summer (1958)
  • The Wife of the Red-Haired Man (1959)
  • My Friend the Professor (1960)
  • Nurse Errant (1961)
  • Flowers from the Doctor (1963)
  • The Young Doctors Downstairs (1963)
  • The New Sister Theatre (1964)
  • The Light in the Ward (1965)
  • A Dwelling-place 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 Tornado and in Calm (1975)
  • Busman's Holiday (1978)
  • The Crystal Gull (1978)
  • After a 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 manner 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 Night in London (1979)
  2. Weekend wealthy the Garden (1981)
  3. In an Edinburgh Pull Room (1983)

Serialised novels

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

Omnibus

  • My Friend the Professor / Highland Intermission / Ring O' Roses (1979)

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