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Jennifer Taylor (writer)
Jennifer Taylor (born in England) is a popular British writer of 50 medical romance novels published by Mills & Boon since 1988. Biography Jennifer Taylor born on 1 January 1949 in England. She is a Chartered Librarian and worked for many years in scientific research. When she discovered medical romance books, she decided to write. She lives in the northwest of England with her husband and her dog. She loves reading and travel. Bibliography Single Novels * Final Score (1988) * Unexpected Challenge (1989) * A Magical Touch (1989) * Tender Pursuit (1989) * Lease on Love (1990) * Lovespell (1990) * Guilty of Love (1992) * Love Is a Risk (1992) * Old Love, New Love (1992) * Fox Tales (1992) * Destined to Love (1992) * Love Is the Answer (1993) * Promise Me Love (1993) * Spanish Nights (1994) * Playing at Love (1994) * Chase a Dream (1994) * Lovestorm (1994) * Jungle Fever (1995) * Desert Moon (1995) * Tides of Love (1995) * The Pleasures of the Table (1996) * Enticed (1996) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to support themselves in this way or write as an avocation. Most novelists struggle to have their debut novel published, but once published they often continue to be published, although very few become literary celebrities, thus gaining prestige or a considerable income from their work. Description Novelists come from a variety of backgrounds and social classes, and frequently this shapes the content of their works. Audience reception, Public reception of a novelist's work, the literary criticism commenting on it, and the novelists' incorporation of their own experiences into works and characters can lead to the author's personal life and identity being associated with a novel's fictional content. For this reason, the environment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romantic Novel
A romance novel or romantic novel generally refers to a type of genre fiction novel which places its primary focus on the relationship and Romance (love), romantic love between two people, and usually has an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Precursors include authors of literary fiction, such as Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Brontë. There are many subgenres of the romance novel, including fantasy, gothic fiction, gothic, Contemporary romance, contemporary, historical romance, paranormal fiction, and science fiction. Although women are the main readers of romance novels a growing number of men enjoy them as well. The Romance Writers of America cite 16% of men read romance novels. "Many people today don’t realize that romance is more than a love story. Romance can be a complex plotline with a setting from the past in a remote, faraway place. Instead of focusing on a love story, it idealizes values and principles that seem lost in today’s world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mills & Boon
Mills & Boon is a romance imprint of British publisher Harlequin UK Ltd. It was founded in 1908 by Gerald Rusgrove Mills and Charles Boon as a general publisher. The company moved towards escapist fiction for women in the 1930s. In 1971, the publisher was bought by the Canadian company Harlequin Enterprises, its North American distributor based in Toronto, with whom it had a long informal partnership. The two companies offer a number of imprints that between them account for almost three-quarters of the romance paperbacks published in Britain. Its print books are presently out-numbered and out-sold by the company's e-books, which allowed the publisher to double its output. Modern Mills & Boon novels, over 100 of which are released each month, cover a wide range of possible romantic subgenres, varying in explicitness, setting and style, although retaining a comforting familiarity that meets reader expectations. History Mills & Boon was founded by Gerald Rusgrove Mills (3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Mortimer
Carole Mortimer (born 1960 in England) is a popular British writer of over 150 romance novels since 1978. She was one of Mills & Boon's youngest authors, and now is one of their most popular and prolific authors. Biography Carole Mortimer was born about 1960 in a very rural hamlet in the east England, and she had two brothers. She studied only one year of nursing, and ended up working in the computer department of a well-known stationery company, where she started to write her first manuscript. The manuscript was rejected by Mills & Boon, but the second was accepted and was published in 1978 as ''The Passionate Winter''. She became one of the youngest and most prolific Mills & Boon's authors. She celebrated the publication of her 100th book, 20 years after her debut, and 30 years after this, she published her first historical novels, in the Mills & Boon Historical series. In 2012 she was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II for her 'outstanding service to literature'. In 2014 she r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Winters
Rebecca Brown Burton (born February 14, 1940 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States) is a popular United States writer of over 75 romance novels under her married name Rebecca Burton, under her complete name Rebecca Brown Burton, and as Rebecca Winters for Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. Biography Born on February 14, 1940 in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. Burton is the daughter of Dr. John Zimmerman Brown, Jr. and Kathryn Ormsby Hyde. She studied in Lausanne, Switzerland. She is mother of four, Wilford, John, Dominique Jessop and Maxim, and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bibliography As Rebecca Burton Single novels *''By Love Divided'' (1978) *''The Loving Season'' (1979) As Rebecca Brown Burton Single novels *''To Love Again'' (1987) As Rebecca Winters Single novels *''Fully Involved'' (1990) *''The Story Princess'' (1990) *''Rites of Love'' (1991) *''Blackie's Woman'' (1991) *''Rescued Heart'' (1991) *''The Marriage Bracelet'' (1992) *''Both of Them'' (1992) *''Meant for Eac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meredith Webber
Meredith Webber is the author of over 100 contemporary romance novels. Many of her novels have been published as part of Mills and Boon's Medical Romance line of category romances. Her novels have been translated into dozens of languages, including Icelandic. Before becoming a writer, Webber worked as a teacher, a travel agent, a pig farmer, and the coordinator of a respite care service. In 1992, she began to write medical romances. She allowed herself two years to become published, and within the first year she sold a novel. Since then, she has taught a romance writing course at Technical and Further Education College, helping her to analyze her own work. Bibliography Novels *''Healing Love'' (1994) *''Whisper in the Heart'' (1994) *''A Different Destiny'' (1994) *''A Testing Time'' (1994) *''A Subtle Magic'' (1995) *''Unruly Heart'' (1995) *''Practice in the Clouds'' (1995) *''Flight into Love'' (1996) *''Courting Dr. Groves'' (1996) *''A Father for Christmas'' (1997) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Barker (romantic Novelist)
Margaret Barker (born 1944) is a British Methodist preacher and biblical scholar. She studied theology at the University of Cambridge, after which she has devoted her life to research in ancient Christianity. She has developed an approach to biblical studies known as Temple Theology. She was president of the ''Society for Old Testament Study'' in 1998, and in July 2008 she was awarded the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Divinity by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Temple Theology Temple Theology is an approach to biblical studies developed by Margaret Barker in her books starting from ''The Great High Priest'' (2003) and ''Temple Theology'' (2004). This approach identifies some elements of the theology and worship of Solomon's Temple that endured beyond Josiah's reform and survived in both early Christian theology and liturgy and in gnosticism. According to this view Temple Theology has been influential in moulding the roots of Christianity as well as, or even more than, Hellenistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Births
Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. * January 11 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the United States. * January 16 – Şemsettin Günaltay forms the new government of Turkey. It is the 18th government, last One-party state, single party government of the Republican People's Party. * January 17 – The first Volkswagen Beetle, VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York City, New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon Sr., Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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