Anne Weale (1929–2007)
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While still in school, romance author Anne Weale sold numerous short stories to a woman's magazine and became a newspaper reporter upon graduation. She published her first romance novel, Winter is Past, in 1955 and her last one, The Man from Madrid, in 2002. In between she wrote over 85 books. From mostrar más 1998 to 2004, she wrote a website review column, Bookworm on the Net, for the U. K.'s leading book trade press magazine The Bookseller. She was a founding member of The Romantic Novelists' Association. She died on October 24, 2007. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Nota de desambiguación:
(eng) Jay Blakeney wrote as Anne Weale and Andrea Blake.
Créditos de la imagen: Jay Blakeney
Series
Obras de Anne Weale
Romance Treasury: Stranger in the Glen / The Man At Kambala / Lord of the Sierras (1978) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXVIII: Until We Met / Dangerous Obsession / City of Dreams (1970) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Romance Treasury: The Day That the Rain Came Down / The Turning Tide / Sullivan's Reef (1975) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Spanish Affairs (A Spanish Vengeance / A Spanish Honeymoon / His Brother's Son) (2008) — Autor — 2 copias
Romance Treasury: The Greater Happiness / That Man Simon / Castle of the Unicorn (1974) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXXVIII: Send for Nurse Vincent / Island For Sale / Winter is Past — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XLIV: Nurse in India / The Gentle Prisoner / The House of Seven Fountains (1974) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Romance Treasury: Sister Pussycat / An Apple in Eden / The Fields of Heaven (1977) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XIV: Then She Fled Me / Castle in Corsica / Scatterbrains-Student Nurse — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XLVI: A Nurse is Born / No Roses in June / Nurse Templar — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXXI: Towards the Sun / The Wedding Dress / The House on Flamingo Cay (1973) 1 copia
Trois romans d'amour : Un été pour séduire. Fiancée... juste pour un soir. Une croisière aux Maldives (2004) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Amor Sob As Estrelas 1 copia
Romance Treasury: Bay of Stars / The Master of Craighill / Rain of Diamonds (1987) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XI: All I Ask / The House of the Shining Tide / Nurse of All Work (1971) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume VI: Never to Love / A Long Way From Home / The Golden Rose (1970) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Sob O Sol Tropical 1 copia
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXI: The Doctor's Daughters / Gates of Dawn / The Gift at Snowy River (1972) 1 copia
Een moderne assepoester 1 copia
بدر الأندلس 1 copia
Uma viagem inesquec℗ivel 1 copia
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume VII: Model Nurse / Winds in the Wilderness / September in Paris — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Blakeney, Jay
- Otros nombres
- Weale, Anne
Blake, Andrea - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1929-06-20
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2007-10-24
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK (birth)
- Lugares de residencia
- England, UK
Malaysia
Spain
Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK - Ocupaciones
- newspaper reporter
novelist - Organizaciones
- Romantic Novelists' Association
- Biografía breve
- Jay Blakeney was born on Juny 20, 1929. Her great-grandfather was a well-known writer on moral theology, so perhaps she inherited her writing gene from him. She was "talking stories" to herself long before she could read. When she was still at school, she sold her first short stories to a woman's magazine and she feels she was destined to write. Decided to became a writer, she started writing for newspapers and magazines.
At 21, Jay was a newspaper reporter with a career plan, but the man she was wildly in love with announced that he was off to the other side of the world. He thought they should either marry or say goodbye. She always believed that true love could last a lifetime, and she felt that wonderful men were much harder to find than good jobs, so she put her career on hold. What a wise decision it was! She felt that new young women seem less inclined to risk everything for love than her generation.
Together they traveled the world. If she hadn't spent part of her bridal year living on the edge of a jungle in Malaysia, she might never have become a romance writer. That isolated house, and the perils of the state of emergency that existed in the country at that time, gave her a background and plot ideally suited to a genre she had never read until she came across some romances in the library of a country club they sometimes visited. She can write about love with the even stronger conviction that comes from experience.
When they returned to Europe, Jay resumed her career as a journalist, writing her first romance in her spare time. She sold her first novel as Anne Weale to Mills and Boon in 1955 at the age of 24. At 30, with seven books published, she "retired" to have a baby and become a full-time writer. She raised a delightful son, David, who is as adventurous as his father. Her husband and son have even climbed in the Andes and the Himalayas, giving her lots of ideas for stories. When she retired from reporting, her fiction income -- a combination of amounts earned as a Mills & Boon author and writing for magazines such as Woman's Illustrated, which serialized the work of authors -- exceed 1,000 pounds a year.
She was a founding member of the The Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2002 she published her last novel, in total, she wrote 88 novels. She also wrote under the pseudonym Andrea Blake. She loved setting her novels in exotic parts of the world, but specially in The Caribbean and in her beloved Spain. Since 1989, Jay spent most of the winter months in a very small "pueblo" in the backwoods of Spain. During years, she visited some villages, and from each she have borrowed some feature - a fountain, a street, a plaza, a picturesque old house - to create some places like Valdecarrasca, that is wholly imaginary and yet typical of the part of rural Spain she knew best. She loved walking, reading, sketching, sewing (curtains and slipcovers) and doing needlepoint, gardening, entertaining friends, visiting art galleries and museums, writing letters, surfing the Net, traveling in search of exciting locations for future books, eating delicious food and drinking good wine, cataloguing her books.
She wrote a regular website review column for The Bookseller from 1998 to 2004, before starting her own blog Bookworm on the Net. At the time of her death, on October 24, 2007, she was working on her autobiography "88 Heroes... 1 Mr. Right". - Aviso de desambiguación
- Jay Blakeney wrote as Anne Weale and Andrea Blake.
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- ISBNs
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As a premise its about as likely as any Harlequin title--British backpacker Clary calls a fellow traveler's older, well off stepbrother to help her out of jail in Thailand. Brother comes, meets Clary, sparks fly and somehow everyone learns their lesson. Seriously while the author attempted to put a realistic edge to the young girl--Nina's--sudden turn around, the entire set up was so artificial and obviously contrived it hurt my head.
Never mind the off the wall courtship Clary and Alistair go through. Or the overwhelming bad parenting in this book (except Pete who genuinely seemed to be a good father). The over-abundance of drinking (was that common in Harlequins? I forget!). The thinly veiled racist remarks about Asians. The 'oh I wish I could do more for these poor people!' remarks Clary said every single time they came across someone she felt was bedraggled in some way.
Quite honestly I didn't enjoy this book at all. I don't know what to say to an author who feels a need to make one parent resentful of her daughter's beauty and youth (to the point where she'd knowingly leave her teen daughter in jail in Thailand to keep her out of the way), another set of parents condescending happy for their only daughter (a great disappointment to them both in almost every way) marrying a rich powerful business man and the main characters drinking alcohol with every meal.… (más)