Anne Rundle Explained

Anne Lamb Rundle
Pseudonym:
  • Joanne Marshall
  • Marianne Lamont
  • Alexandra Manners
  • Jeanne Sanders
  • Georgianna Bell
Birth Name:Anne Lamb
Birth Date:1920
Birth Place:Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England, UK
Occupation:Novelist
Nationality:British
Period:1967–1986
Genre:Gothic and romantic fiction
Spouse:Edwin Charles Rundle
Children:3
Awards:RoNA Award

Anne Rundle (née Lamb; 1920 – 1989) was a British author of more than 40 gothic and romance novels. She also used the pseudonyms of Joanne Marshall, Marianne Lamont, Alexandra Manners, Jeanne Sanders, and Georgianna Bell. She won the Netta Muskett Award for new writers, and is one of only a few authors to have won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Biography

Personal life

Rundle was born in 1920 in Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, the daughter of Annie Sanderson and George Manners Lamb, a soldier. She was educated at Army Schools, and attended Berwick High School for Girls.

On 1 October 1949, she married Edwin Charles Rundle. They had one daughter, Anne, and two sons, James and Iain. Anne Rundle died in 1989.

Career and works

She worked as civil servant on Newcastle upon Tyne from 1942 to 1950. When she published her first novel in 1967, she won the Netta Muskett Award for new writers. She won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association for her novels Cat on a Broomstick (1970) and Flower of Silence (1971). In 1974, she was named Daughter of Mark Twain.

Published books

As Anne Rundle

Novels

As Joanne Marshall

Novels

As Marianne Lamont

Novels

As Alexandra Manners

Novels

  1. Echoing Yesterday (1983)
  2. Karran Kinrade (1983)
  3. The Red Bird (1984)
  4. The Gaming House (1984)

As Jeanne Sanders

Novels

As Georgianna Bell

Novels

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