Jane Arbor

Jane Arbor
Born	Eileen Norah Murphy (1903-09-08)8 September 1903 Yeovil, Somerset, England[1]
Died	4 February 1994(1994-02-04) (aged 90) Worthing, West Sussex, England[2]
Pen name	Jane Arbor
Occupation	writer
Nationality	British
Period	1948–1985
Genre	Romance

Eileen Norah Owbridge (née Murphy; 8 September 1903 – 4 February 1994)[3] was a British writer who under the pseudonym Jane Arbor wrote 57 romances for Mills & Boon from 1948 to 1985.

She wrote doctor-nurse and foreign romances. Many of her doctor-nurse romances have been re-edited with different titles, that included medical words.[4] She lived in Preston, Sussex, England.[5]

Bibliography

Source:[4]

As Jane Arbor

Single novels

• This Second Spring, (1948)
• Each Song Twice Over, (1948)
• Ladder of Understanding, (1949)
• Strange Loyalties = Doctor's Love, (1949)
• By Yet Another Door = Nurse in Waiting, (1950)
• No Lease for Love = My Surgeon Neighbor, (1950)
• The Heart Expects Adventure, (1951)
• Memory Serves My Love, (1952)
• The Eternal Circle = Nurse Atholl Returns, (1952)
• Flower of the Nettle = Consulting Surgeon, (1953)
• Such Frail Armour = Nurse in Love, (1953)
• Folly of the Heart = Nurse Harlowe, (1954)
• Jess Mawney, Queen's Nurse = Queen's Nurse, (1954)
• Dear Intruder, (1955)
• City Nurse = Nurse Greve, (1956)
• Towards the Dawn, (1956)
• Yesterday's Magic, (1957)
• Far Sanctuary, (1958)
• No Silver Spoon, (1959)
• Sandflower, (1959)
• A Girl Named Smith, (1960)
• Nurse of All Work, (1962)
• Desert Nurse, (1963)
• Jasmine Harvest, (1963)
• Lake of Shadows, (1964)
• Kingfisher Tide, (1965)
• High Master of Clere, (1966)
• Summer Every Day, (1966)
• Golden Apple Island, (1967)
• Stranger's Trespass, (1968)
• The Cypress Garden, 1969/May)
• Walk into the Wind, (1970/Jan)
• The Feathered Shaft, (1970/May)
• The Linden Leaf, (1971)
• The Other Miss Donne, (1971/Aug)
• Wildfire Quest, (1972/Jan)
• The Flower on the Rock, (1972/Nov)
• Roman Summer, (1973/Jul)
• The Velvet Spur, (1974/Mar)
• Meet the Sun Halfway, (1974/Aug)
• The Wide Fields of Home, (1975/Mar)
• Smoke into Flame, (1975/Nov)
• Tree of Paradise, (1976/Aug)
• Two Pins in a Fountain, (1977/Jan)
• A Growing Moon, (1977/Jun)
• Flash of Emerald, (1977/Dec)
• Return to Silbersee, (1978/Aug)
• Late Rapture, (1978/Dec)
• Pact Without Desire, (1979/Jun)
• The Devil Drives, (1979/Dec)
• Where The Wolf Leads, (1980/Jul)
• One Brief Sweet Hour, (1980/Dec)
• Invisible Wife, (1981/Jun)
• The Price of Paradise, (1982/Mar)
• Handmaid to Midas, (1982/Oct)
• House of Discord, (1983/Nov)
• Lost Yesterday, (1985/Jul)

Omnibus collections

• Feathered Shaft / Wildfire Quest / Flower on the Rock (1982)

Anthologies in collaboration

• Fair Horizon / Desert Nurse / Queen's Counsel (1970) (with Rosalind Brett and Alex Stuart)
• Golden Harlequin Library Vol. XVII: No Silver Spoon / Nurse Nolan / The Time and the Place (1971) (with Susan Barrie and Essie Summers)
• Light in the Tower / Along The Ribbonwood Track / The Linden Leaf (1975) (with Jean S. MacLeod and Mary Moore)
• Roman Summer / Flamboyant Tree / Black Niall (1977) (with Isobel Chace and Mary Wibberley)
• Velvet Spur / The Habit of Love / Extraordinary Engagement (1979) (with Joyce Dingwell and Marjorie Lewty)
• Other Miss Donne / Thistle and the Rose / Beyond the Foothills (1985) (with Margaret Rome and Essie Summers)
• One Brief Sweet Hour / Once More With Feeling / Blue Lotus (1990) (with Natalie Sparks and Margaret Way)

References and sources

1. "Bear Alley: Eileen Owbridge". Bear Alley. 13 May 2017. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
2. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
3. Jane Arbor in Author and Book Info
4. Jane Arbor in Fantastic Fiction, retrieved 21 September 2008
5. Author and Book Info, retrieved 26 August 2011