Died 1989 (aged 68–69) Period 1967–1986 Nationality British | Language English Occupation Novelist Name Anne Rundle | |
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Pen name Anne Rundle,
Joanne Marshall,
Marianne Lamont,
Alexandra Manners,
Jeanne Sanders,
Georgianna Bell | ||
Anne Rundle, née Lamb (1920 – 1989) was a British writer of over 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.
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Personal life
Anne Lamb was born in 1920 in Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland 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.