Rosamunde Pilcher (1924–2019)
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Over de Auteur
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 toon meer 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) toon minder
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Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 194 : September. Favoritensturz. Der Flug des Kondors. Der grosse Bellheim (1994) 4 exemplaren
De rode jurk en andere verhalen 4 exemplaren
Setembro 3 exemplaren
Cinco relatos para mujeres 3 exemplaren
The Shell Seekers [ABRIDGED] 2 exemplaren
El jardín de las caléndulas 2 exemplaren
The Shell Seekers 2 2 exemplaren
Rosamunde Pilcher Collection 1: Die besten Filme aus 10 Jahren Rosamunde Pilcher [3 DVDs] 1 exemplaar
Solisticio de invierno 1 exemplaar
Wintersonne, Sonderausgabe 1 exemplaar
Jahreszeiten der Liebe. Wintergeschichten. 1 exemplaar
The Guilty 1 exemplaar
On My Own 1 exemplaar
Cirkels in het zand 1 exemplaar
Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter Solstice [DVD] 1 exemplaar
Nieve en abril (coleccion Jet 188/7) 1 exemplaar
Golgota intoarcerii acasa 1 exemplaar
Rundum glücklich (film) 1 exemplaar
The before-Christmas Present and Miss Cameron at Christmas: WITH Miss Cameron at Christmas (2005) 1 exemplaar
Verliebt,verlobt,verwirrt (film) 1 exemplaar
De thuisreis | September | Midwinter 1 exemplaar
Wintergeschichten. Großdruck. 1 exemplaar
Argentine Tango [film] 1 exemplaar
Tornillo silvestre 1 exemplaar
Montanhas silvestres 1 exemplaar
September, vol. 1 (LARGE PRINT) 1 exemplaar
Liebe, Diebe, Diamanten 1 exemplaar
September, vol. 2 (LARGE PRINT) 1 exemplaar
In der Mitte eines Lebens (film) 1 exemplaar
Vollkommen unerwartet (film) 1 exemplaar
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume VI: Never to Love / A Long Way From Home / The Golden Rose (1970) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Code to Zero • Winter Solstice • High Risk • Beneath the Skin (2000) 11 exemplaren
Australian Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Visitor / Winter Solstice / The White House Connection / Follow the… (2001) 4 exemplaren
Det Bästas bokval, vol. 219 3 exemplaren
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Come to Grief • Coming Home • Oscar: The True Story of a Husky • That Camden… (1996) 3 exemplaren
Livros Condensados: Solstício de Inverno | Refém | O Melhor da Vida | Vento Uivante (2002) — Auteur — 3 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Scott Pilcher, Rosamunde
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Fraser, Jane
- Geboortedatum
- 1924-09-22
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2019-02-06
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Engeland
- Geboorteplaats
- Lelant, Cornwall, Engeland
- Plaats van overlijden
- Longforgan, Scotland, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Lelant, Cornwall, Engeland
Dundee, Schotland, Groot-Brittannië - Opleiding
- St. Clare's, Polwithen
Howell's School, Llandaff
Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College - Beroepen
- romance novelist
- Relaties
- Pilcher, Robin (Zoon)
- Organisaties
- Women's Royal Naval Service (WWII)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Order of the British Empire (Officer ∙ 2002)
- Agent
- Felicity Bryan
- Korte biografie
- 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).
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