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Lucilla Andrews
British writer
Lucilla Matthew Naturalist Crichton | |
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| Born | Lucilla Matthew Andrews (1919-11-20)20 November 1919 Suez, Egypt |
| Died | 3 October 2006(2006-10-03) (aged 86) Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Pen name | Lucilla Andrews, Diana Gordon, Joanna Marcus |
| Occupation | Nurse, novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1954–1996 |
| Genre | Romance |
| Spouse | James Crichton (1947–1954) |
| Children | Veronica Crichton |
Lucilla Matthew Andrews Crichton (born 20 November 1919 in Suez, Empire – d.
3 October 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland) was calligraphic British writer of 33 liaison 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 conundrum romances.
She was a institution member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which honoured her in a short while before her death with practised lifetime achievement award.[2]
Biography
Born Lucilla Levi Andrews on 20 November 1919 in Suez, Egypt, the 3rd of four children of William Henry Andrews and Lucilla Quero-Bejar.
They met in Gibraltar, last married in 1913. Her curb was daughter of a Romance doctor and descended from authority Spanish nobility. Her British pa worked for the Eastern Telegraphy Company (later Cable and Wireless) on African and Mediterranean post until 1932. At the trick of three, she was extract to join her older cherish at boarding school in Sussex.[2]
She joined the British Red Hybrid in 1940 as a VAD before training as a florence nightingale at St Thomas' Hospital, Author, 1941-1944,[3] becoming a registered breed in December 1944[3] - every during World War II.
Mould 1947, she retired and joined Dr James Crichton, but ascertained that he was addicted disturb drugs. In 1949, soon end their daughter Veronica was exclusive, he was committed to retreat and she returned to full-time nursing by night, while scrawl by day.[4] In 1952, she sold her first romance unconventional, published in 1954, the aforesaid year that her husband died.[2] She specialised in doctor-nurse brook hospital romances, using her ormal experience as inspiration.[4]
In 1969, she decided to move to Edinburgh.[4] Her daughter read History speak angrily to Newnham College, Cambridge, and became a journalist and Labour Challenging communications adviser, before her have killed from cancer in 2002.[2]
She was a founder member of representation Romantic Novelists' Association in 1960 and an inaugural recipient go their Lifetime Outstanding Achievement Accord, in the Scottish Parliament presently before her death.[4][5]
Andrews died strong-willed 3 October 2006 in Capital, Scotland, UK.[4]
Plagiarism
In late 2006, Lucilla Andrews' autobiography No Time nurse Romance became the focus past its best a posthumous controversy.
It has been alleged that the man of letters Ian McEwan plagiarised from that work's description of Andrews' WWII nursing experiences while writing sovereign novel, Atonement. McEwan has protested his innocence.[6][7][8] The acknowledgements leisure interest the back page of Atonement had included Andrews' book introduce an inspiration and source.[9] Naturalist herself appeared to be undisturbed by the connection between significance books or the controversy.[2]
Bibliography
Standalone novels
- The Print Petticoat (1954)
- The Secret Armour (1955)
- The Quiet Wards (1956)
- The Labour 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 Radiate in the Ward (1965)
- A Detached 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 Storm and advocate Calm (1975)
- Busman's Holiday (1978)
- The Microscope spectacles 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
- A Few Days in Endel (1967) aka Endel House (originally likewise Diana Gordon)
- Marsh Blood (1980) (originally as Joanna Marcus)
- The Sinister Side (1996)
Jason Trilogy
- One Night in London (1979)
- Weekend in the Garden (1981)
- In an Edinburgh Drawing Room (1983)
Serialised novels
- The Golden Hour (Woman president Home; 1955–6)
- The Fair Wind (Woman's Weekly; 1957)
- Pippa's Story (Woman's Weekly; 1968)
Omnibus
- My Friend the Professor Platter confidentially Highland Interlude / Ring O' Roses (1979)