Jane Feather (born Jane Robotham 1945 in

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, Egypt) is a popular British–American writer of

historical History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categ ...

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. In 1984 she wrote five contemporary romances under the pseudonym Claudia Bishop. She is a ''The New York Times''-bestselling, award-winning writer, and has more than ten million

in print.

Biography

Jane Robotham was born on 1945 in

, (

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), and grew up in New Forest, in the south of England. She has a master's degree in applied social studies from

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. She is married and has three children. In 1978 she moved with her husband and children to

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, where she worked as a psychiatric social worker. In 1981 she began her writing career after she and her family moved to Washington D.C. Since printing in 1984 she wrote five contemporary

romance novel A romance or romantic novel is a genre fiction novel that primarily focuses on the relationship and Romance (love), romantic love between two people, typically with an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending. Authors who have contributed ...

s under the pen name Claudia Bishop and since 1986 has written historical romances under her name, Jane Feather.

References

External links

Jane Feather at Fantastic Fiction
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