Rosamunde Pilcher (1924–2019)
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Sobre l'autor
Rosamunde Pilcher was born Rosamunde Scott on September 22, 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall, England. When World War II broke out, she left school and went to work for the Foreign Office. In 1944, she joined the Women's Royal Naval Service and was stationed in Ceylon when the war ended. Her first short mostra'n més story was published while she was serving in Ceylon. She married Graham Pilcher in 1946. Her first novel, Half-Way to the Moon, was published in 1949 under the penname Jane Fraser. She continued writing books under that penname into the early 1960s, but in 1955 she also published her first book under her own name entitled A Secret to Tell. Her best-known novel, The Shell Seekers, was published in 1987. Her other novels included Sleeping Tiger, The End of the Summer, Wild Mountain Thyme, Voices in Summer, September, Coming Home, and Winter Solstice. She also wrote short stories. She died after a short illness on February 6, 2019 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Rosamunde Pilcher
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 194 : September. Favoritensturz. Der Flug des Kondors. Der grosse Bellheim (1994) 4 exemplars
Setembro 3 exemplars
Cinco relatos para mujeres 3 exemplars
The Shell Seekers [ABRIDGED] 2 exemplars
El jardín de las caléndulas 2 exemplars
Golgota intoarcerii acasa 1 exemplars
Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter Solstice [DVD] 1 exemplars
Nieve en abril (coleccion Jet 188/7) 1 exemplars
Cirkels in het zand 1 exemplars
Solisticio de invierno 1 exemplars
The Guilty 1 exemplars
The Shell Seekers 2 1 exemplars
Tornillo silvestre 1 exemplars
The before-Christmas Present and Miss Cameron at Christmas: WITH Miss Cameron at Christmas (2005) 1 exemplars
Wintergeschichten. Großdruck. 1 exemplars
Coming Home | September | Winter Solstice 1 exemplars
Rundum glücklich (film) 1 exemplars
Montanhas silvestres 1 exemplars
Verliebt,verlobt,verwirrt (film) 1 exemplars
Argentine Tango [film] 1 exemplars
Liebe, Diebe, Diamanten 1 exemplars
Vollkommen unerwartet (film) 1 exemplars
In der Mitte eines Lebens (film) 1 exemplars
September, vol. 2 (LARGE PRINT) 1 exemplars
September, vol. 1 (LARGE PRINT) 1 exemplars
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume VI: Never to Love / A Long Way From Home / The Golden Rose (1970) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Code to Zero • Winter Solstice • High Risk • Beneath the Skin (2000) 11 exemplars
Det Bästas bokval, vol. 219 3 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Scott Pilcher, Rosamunde
- Altres noms
- Fraser, Jane
- Data de naixement
- 1924-09-22
- Data de defunció
- 2019-02-06
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Engeland
- Lloc de naixement
- Lelant, Cornwall, Engeland
- Lloc de defunció
- Longforgan, Scotland, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Lelant, Cornwall, Engeland
Dundee, Schotland, Groot-Brittannië - Educació
- St. Clare's, Polwithen
Howell's School, Llandaff
Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College - Professions
- romance novelist
- Relacions
- Pilcher, Robin (Zoon)
- Organitzacions
- Women's Royal Naval Service (WWII)
- Premis i honors
- Order of the British Empire (Officer ∙ 2002)
- Agent
- Felicity Bryan
- Biografia breu
- Rosamunde Scott was born on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall, England, UK, daughter of Helen and Charles Scott, a British commander. Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, her mother remained in England. She attended St. Clare's Polwithen and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College. She began writing when she was seven, and published her first short story when she was 18. From 1943 through 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Naval Service. On 7 December 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher, a war hero and jute industry executive who died in March 2009. They moved to Dundee, Scotland, where she still lives today with a dog in Perthshire. They had two daughters and two sons, and fourteen grandchildren. Her son, Robin Pilcher, is also a novelist.
In 1949, her first book, a romance novel, was published by Mills & Boon, under the pseudonym Jane Fraser. She published a further ten novels under that name. In 1955, she also began writing under her married name Rosamunde Pilcher, by 1965 she her own name to all of her novels. In 1996, her novel Coming Home won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by Romantic Novelists' Association. She retired from writing in 2000. Two years later, she was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Christmas Books (1)
Books Read in 2021 (10)
Best Beach Reads (1)
1970s (1)
Carole's List (1)
BBC Big Read (1)
Comfort Reads (2)
Women in War (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 125
- També de
- 16
- Membres
- 16,604
- Popularitat
- #1,366
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 368
- ISBN
- 1,194
- Llengües
- 20
- Preferit
- 63
- Pedres de toc
- 319