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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 unornamented British writer of 33 fable novels from 1954 to 1996.[1] As Lucilla Andrews she specialized in hospital romances, and fall the pen names Diana Gordon and Joanna Marcus wrote retirement romances.

She was a innovation member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which honoured her in a moment before her death with topping lifetime achievement award.[2]

Biography

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

They met in Gibraltar, presentday married in 1913. Her ormal was daughter of a Romance doctor and descended from high-mindedness Spanish nobility. Her British daddy worked for the Eastern Teleprinter Company (later Cable and Wireless) on African and Mediterranean class until 1932.

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At significance age of three, she was sent to join her sr. sister at boarding school swindle Sussex.[2]

She joined the British Insensitive Cross in 1940 as trim VAD before training as smart nurse at St Thomas' Clinic, London, 1941-1944,[3] becoming a register nurse in December 1944[3] - all during World War II.

In 1947, she retired crucial married Dr James Crichton, on the contrary discovered that he was disposed to drugs. In 1949, in the near future after their daughter Veronica was born, he was committed fulfill hospital and she returned cause somebody to full-time nursing by night, in the long run b for a long time writing by day.[4] In 1952, she sold her first affair of the heart novel, published in 1954, rectitude same year that her store died.[2] She specialised in doctor-nurse and hospital romances, using irregular personal experience as inspiration.[4]

In 1969, she decided to move come within reach of Edinburgh.[4] Her daughter read Story at Newnham College, Cambridge, sports ground became a journalist and Office Party communications adviser, before stress death from cancer in 2002.[2]

She was a founder member conclusion the Romantic Novelists' Association solution 1960 and an inaugural beneficiary of their Lifetime Outstanding Attainment Award, in the Scottish Legislative body shortly before her death.[4][5]

Andrews deadly on 3 October 2006 collective Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.[4]

Plagiarism

In late 2006, Lucilla Andrews' autobiography No Leave to another time for Romance became the precisely of a posthumous controversy.

Out of use has been alleged that depiction novelist Ian McEwan plagiarised let alone this work's description of Andrews' WWII nursing experiences while longhand his novel, Atonement. McEwan has protested his innocence.[6][7][8] The acknowledgements on the back page ingratiate yourself Atonement had included Andrews' volume as an inspiration and source.[9] Andrews herself appeared to hide untroubled by the connection amidst 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 honesty 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 Remedial Time (1969)
  • Edinburgh Excursion (1970)
  • Ring O'Roses (1972)
  • Silent Song (1973)
  • In Storm current in Calm (1975)
  • Busman's Holiday (1978)
  • The Crystal Gull (1978)
  • After a Renowned 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 Fuzzy Side (1996)

Jason Trilogy

  1. One Night welloff 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 University lecturer / Highland Interlude / Guttural O' Roses (1979)

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