William Stuart Long (1914–1986)
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(eng) Violet Vivian Finlay Porch Santow Stuart Mann wrote as Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V.A. Stuart, William Stuart Long and Robyn Stuart.
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Verk av William Stuart Long
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume III: Fair Horizon / Desert Nurse / Queen's Counsel — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXVI: Return to Love / Stormy Haven / Nurse to Captain Andy — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XIX: Nurse on Holiday / Country of the Heart / The Last of the Logans — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXXVIII: Send for Nurse Vincent / Island For Sale / Winter is Past — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XLII: Tangle in Sunshine / The Way in the Dark / Doctor in the Tropics (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XLVII: Sweet Deceiver / Stranger in Their Midst / A Cruise for Cinderella (1974) 1 exemplar
Victors & Lords 1 exemplar
(vol 13) 1 exemplar
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Mann, Violet Vivian Finlay Porch Santow Stuart
- Andra namn
- Stuart, Vivian
Stuart, Alex
Allen, Barbara
Finlay, Fiona
Stuart, V.A.
Long, William Stuart (visa alla 7)
Stuart, Robyn - Födelsedag
- 1914-01-02
- Avled
- 1986-08
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK (birth)
- Födelseort
- Berkshire, England, UK
- Dödsort
- York, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Rangoon, Burma
India
Singapore
Java, Indonesia
Sumatra, Indonesia
Berkshire, England, UK (visa alla 8)
Budapest, Hungary
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia - Yrken
- novelist
- Organisationer
- Romantic Novelists' Association
- Kort biografi
- Violet Vivian Finlay was born on 2 January 1914 in Berkshire, England, UK, the daughter of Alice Kathleen (née Norton) and Sir Campbell Kirkman Finlay. Her father was the owner and director of Burmah Oil Company Ltd., whose Scottish family also owned James Finlay and Company Ltd. The majority of her childhood and youth was spent in Rangoon, Burma (now also known as Myanmar), where her father worked. During her life, she frequently journeyed between India, Singapore, Java and Sumatra.
Although Vivian is well-known by the surname of Stuart, she married four times during her lifetime, and had five children: Gillian Rushton (née Porch), Kim Santow, Jennifer Gooch (née Stuart), and twins Vary and Valerie Stuart.
Following the dissolution of her first marriage, she studied for a time Law in London in the mid 1930s, before decided studied Medicine at the University of London. Later she spent time in Hungary in the capacity of private tutor in English, while she obtained a pathologist qualification at the University of Budapest in 1938. In 1939, she emigrated to Australia with her second husband, a Hungarian Doctor Geza Santow with whom she worked. In 1942, she obtained a diploma in industrial chemistry and laboratory technique at Technical Institute of Newcastle. Having earned an ambulance driver's certificate, she joined the Australian Forces at the Women's Auxiliary Service during World War II. She was attached to the IVth Army, and raised to the rank of sergeant, she was posted to British XIV Army in Rangoon, Burma in October 1945, and was then transferred to Sumatra in December. After the WWII, she returned to England. On 24 October 1958, she married her fourth and last husband, Cyril William Mann, a bank manager.
She was a prolific writer from 1953 to 1986 under diferent pseudonyms: Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V. A. Stuart, William Stuart Long and Robyn Stuart. Many of her novels were protagonized by doctors or nurses, and set in Asia, Australia or other places she had visited. Her romance novel, Gay Cavalier published in 1955 as Alex Stuart got her into trouble with her Mills & Boon editors when she featured a secondary story line featuring a Catholic male and Protestant female who chose to marry. This so-called "mixed marriage" touched nerves in the United Kingdom.
In 1960, she was a founder of the Romantic Novelists' Association, along with Denise Robins, Barbara Cartland, and others; she was elected the first Chairman (1961-1963). In 1970, she became the first woman to chair Swanwick Writers' Summer School.
Violet Vivian Finlay Porch Santow Stuart Mann passed away on August 1986 in Yorkshire, at age 72. She continued writing until her death. - Särskiljningsnotis
- Violet Vivian Finlay Porch Santow Stuart Mann wrote as Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V.A. Stuart, William Stuart Long and Robyn Stuart.
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- 90
- Medlemmar
- 1,637
- Popularitet
- #15,692
- Betyg
- 3.5
- Recensioner
- 32
- ISBN
- 333
- Språk
- 4
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- 1
The historic details are accurate and most of characters within the book were real people with the exception of fictional character Alexander Sheridan. Throughout the course of the series Sheridan manages to be present at most of the important events of the mutiny. He is still recovering from loss of his wife and child at Cawnpore, and is now caught up in the siege of Lucknow and in protecting the sick and wounded.
I have enjoyed this series and learned a lot about the Sepoy Mutiny. Along with her excellent research the author also provides the reader with a lively adventure story. These were the first books that I have read by this author, but I would certainly like to read more.… (mer)