Anne Rundle

"Joanne Marshall" redirects here. For American actress who used this as a stage name, see Joanne Dru.

Anne Lamb Rundle
Born	Anne Lamb 1920 Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England, UK
Died	1989 (aged 68–69)
Pen name	Joanne Marshall Marianne Lamont Alexandra Manners Jeanne Sanders Georgianna Bell
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	British
Period	1967–1986
Genre	Gothic and romantic fiction
Notable awards	RoNA Award
Spouse	Edwin Charles Rundle
Children	3

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.^[1]

Biography

Personal life

Rundle was born in 1920^[2] in Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland,^[3] the daughter of Annie Sanderson and George Manners Lamb, a soldier.^[4] She was educated at Army Schools, and attended Berwick High School for Girls.^[3]

On 1 October 1949, she married Edwin Charles Rundle. They had one daughter, Anne, and two sons, James and Iain.^[4] 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.^[4]

Published books

As Anne Rundle Novels The Moon Marriage (1967) Sword Light (1968) Dragonscale (1969) Forest of Fear (1969) Tamlane (1970) Rakehell (1970) Amberwood (1972) Lost Lotus (1972) Heronbrook (1975) Judith Lammeter (1976) Grey Ghyll (1978) Moonbranches (1986) As Joanne Marshall Novels[5] Cuckoo at Candlemas (1968) Cat on a Broomstick (1969) Dreaming Tower (1970) Flower of Silence (1970) Babylon Was Dust (1971) Wild Boar Wood (1972) Trellised Walk (1973) Sea-Song (1973) Follow a Shadow (1974) Valley of the Tall Chimneys (1975) Last Act (1976) The Peacock Bed (1978)

As Marianne Lamont Novels Dark Changeling (1970) Green Grass Moon (1970) Bitter Bride-Bed (1971) Follow a Shadow (1974) Nine Moons Wasted (1976) Horns of the Moon (1979) A Serpent's Tooth (1983) As Alexandra Manners Novels[6] The Stone Maiden (1973) Candles in the Wood (1974) The Singing Swans (1975) Sable Hunter (1977) aka Cardigan Square The White Moths (1970) aka Wildford's Daughter Island series Echoing Yesterday (1983) Karran Kinrade (1983) The Red Bird (1984) The Gaming House (1984) As Jeanne Sanders Novels Spindrift (1974) The Winds of Time (1986) As Georgianna Bell Novels Passionate Jade (1979)

References

1. Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 5 August 2012
2. Crime Fiction IV: A Comprehensive Bibliography 1749–2000 by Allen J. Hubin, 5 August 2012
3. James Vinson; D. L. Kirkpatrick (1982), Twentieth-century romance and gothic writers, Gale Research, p. 898
4. Robert Reginald; Douglas Menville; Mary A. Burgess (1979), Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Volumen 2, p. 1142
5. Joanne Marshall at FantasticFiction, 5 August 2012
6. Alexandra Manners at FantasticFiction, 5 August 2012

External links

• Anne Rundle at Library of Congress, with 1 library catalogue record
• Marianne Lamont^{[permanent dead link‍]}, Alexandra Manners^{[permanent dead link‍]}, and Joanne Marshall at LC Authorities, with 3, 6, and 2 records
• LaMont, Manners, and Marshall in WorldCat libraries