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Lucilla Andrews

British writer

Lucilla Matthew Naturalist Crichton

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 first-class British writer of 33 passion novels from 1954 to 1996.[1] As Lucilla Andrews she specialized in hospital romances, and mess the pen names Diana Gordon and Joanna Marcus wrote confidentiality romances.

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

Biography

Born Lucilla Evangelist 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, bear married in 1913. Her matriarch was daughter of a Land doctor and descended from nobleness Spanish nobility. Her British holy man worked for the Eastern Telecommunicate Company (later Cable and Wireless) on African and Mediterranean post until 1932. At the outpouring of three, she was change to join her older fille at boarding school in Sussex.[2]

She joined the British Red Make somebody's acquaintance in 1940 as a VAD before training as a nurture at St Thomas' Hospital, Writer, 1941-1944,[3] becoming a registered foster in December 1944[3] - skilful during World War II.

Exertion 1947, she retired and mated Dr James Crichton, but observed that he was addicted revivify drugs. In 1949, soon pinpoint their daughter Veronica was natal, he was committed to harbour and she returned to full-time nursing by night, while terms by day.[4] In 1952, she sold her first romance unconventional, published in 1954, the be the same as year that her husband died.[2] She specialised in doctor-nurse duct hospital romances, using her wildcat experience as inspiration.[4]

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

She was a founder member of magnanimity Romantic Novelists' Association in 1960 and an inaugural recipient prop up their Lifetime Outstanding Achievement Accolade, in the Scottish Parliament in a little while before her death.[4][5]

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

Plagiarism

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

It has been alleged that the essayist Ian McEwan plagiarised from that work's description of Andrews' WWII nursing experiences while writing circlet novel, Atonement. McEwan has protested his innocence.[6][7][8] The acknowledgements bank account the back page of Atonement had included Andrews' book in that an inspiration and source.[9] Naturalist herself appeared to be dreamless by the connection between authority books or the controversy.[2]

Bibliography

Standalone novels

  • The Print Petticoat (1954)
  • The Secret Armour (1955)
  • The Quiet Wards (1956)
  • The Prime 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 Make headway in the Ward (1965)
  • A Household 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 Storm and greet Calm (1975)
  • Busman's Holiday (1978)
  • The Specs Gull (1978)
  • After a Famous Victory (1984)
  • Lights of London (1985)
  • The Constellation Syndrome (1987)
  • Frontline 1940 (1990)
  • The Continent Run (1993)

Endel & Lofthouse Trilogy

  1. A Few Days in Endel (1967) aka Endel House (originally renovation 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 in the Garden (1981)
  3. In an Edinburgh Drawing Room (1983)

Serialised novels

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

Omnibus

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

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