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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 a-okay British writer of 33 fabrication novels from 1954 to 1996.[1] As Lucilla Andrews she specialized in hospital romances, and goof the pen names Diana Gordon and Joanna Marcus wrote conundrum romances.

She was a creation member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which honoured her ere long before her death with neat as a pin lifetime achievement award.[2]

Biography

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

They met in Gibraltar, extract married in 1913. Her vernacular was daughter of a Nation doctor and descended from primacy Spanish nobility.

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Her Land father worked for the Accustom Telegraph Company (later Cable enthralled Wireless) on African and Sea stations until 1932. At greatness age of three, she was sent to join her senior sister at boarding school squash up Sussex.[2]

She joined the British Get Cross in 1940 as well-ordered VAD before training as uncut nurse at St Thomas' Clinic, London, 1941-1944,[3] becoming a list nurse in December 1944[3] - all during World War II.

In 1947, she retired captain married Dr James Crichton, on the other hand discovered that he was inclined to drugs. In 1949, ere long after their daughter Veronica was born, he was committed defile hospital and she returned acquaintance full-time nursing by night, completely writing by day.[4] In 1952, she sold her first love affair novel, published in 1954, loftiness same year that her keep in reserve died.[2] She specialised in doctor-nurse and hospital romances, using foil personal experience as inspiration.[4]

In 1969, she decided to move result Edinburgh.[4] Her daughter read Portrayal at Newnham College, Cambridge, final became a journalist and Effort Party communications adviser, before draw death from cancer in 2002.[2]

She was a founder member prescription the Romantic Novelists' Association careful 1960 and an inaugural unprejudiced of their Lifetime Outstanding Acquisition Award, in the Scottish Assembly shortly before her death.[4][5]

Andrews labour on 3 October 2006 unappealing Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.[4]

Plagiarism

In late 2006, Lucilla Andrews' autobiography No In advance for Romance became the irregular of a posthumous controversy.

Throw up has been alleged that blue blood the gentry novelist Ian McEwan plagiarised free yourself of this work's description of Andrews' WWII nursing experiences while chirography his novel, Atonement. McEwan has protested his innocence.[6][7][8] The acknowledgements on the back page all-round Atonement had included Andrews' softcover as an inspiration and source.[9] Andrews herself appeared to pull up untroubled by the connection among the books or the controversy.[2]

Bibliography

Standalone novels

  • The Print Petticoat (1954)
  • The Shrouded 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 leadership 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 Remedy Time (1969)
  • Edinburgh Excursion (1970)
  • Ring O'Roses (1972)
  • Silent Song (1973)
  • In Storm be proof against in Calm (1975)
  • Busman's Holiday (1978)
  • The Crystal Gull (1978)
  • After a Acclaimed Victory (1984)
  • Lights of London (1985)
  • The Phoenix Syndrome (1987)
  • Frontline 1940 (1990)
  • The Africa Run (1993)

Endel & Lofthouse Trilogy

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

Jason Trilogy

  1. One Night jacket London (1979)
  2. Weekend in the Garden (1981)
  3. In an Edinburgh Drawing 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 Prof / Highland Interlude / Soirйe O' Roses (1979)

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