Jean Stubbs

Jean Stubbs (23 October 1926 – 19 October 2012) was a British writer.

She was born Jean Yvonne Higham in Denton, Lancashire the daughter of Joseph Higham, a lecturer at Manchester University and Millies Darby, and was educated at Manchester High School for Girls, the Manchester School of Art and Loreburn Secretarial College in Manchester. Stubbs worked as a copywriter for Henry Melland from 1964 to 1966 and was a reviewer for Books and Bookmen from 1965 to 1976.[1][2] She died in the Helston district of Cornwall in 2012.

She received the Tom Gallon Trust Award for short story in 1964.[1] Her 1973 novel Dear Laura was nominated for an Edgar Award.

She was married twice: first to Peter Stubbs in 1948 and then to Roy Oliver in 1980.[1]

Selected works

Source:[1]

  • The Rose Grower (Macmillan 1962) (St Martin's Press 1963)
  • The Travellers (Macmillan 1963) (St Martin's Press 1963)
  • Hanrahan's Colony (Macmillan 1964)
  • The Straw Crown (Macmillan 1966)
  • John Lintott series, historical mysteries
    • My Grand Enemy (Macmillan 1967) (Stein & Day 1967)
    • The Case of Kitty Ogilvie (Macmillan 1970) (Walker 1971)
    • Dear Laura (Macmillan 1973) (Stein & Day 1973)
    • The Painted Face (Macmillan 1974) (Stein & Day 1974)
    • The Golden Crucible (Macmillan 1976)[3](Stein & Day 1976)
  • Unlikely Ghosts (contribution) (Taplinger 1969)
  • The Passing Star (Macmillan 1970) Eleanora Duse (Stein & Day 1970)
  • Winter's Crimes 3 (contribution) (Macmillan 1971)
  • An Unknown Welshman (Stein & Day 1972)
  • The Eleventh Ghost Book (contribution) (Barrie & Jenkins 1975)
  • Howarth family quartet, historical fiction 'Brief Chronicles' I-IV
    • By Our Beginnings (St Martin's Press 1979), known as Kit's Hill (Macmillan 1978) in the UK
    • An Imperfect Joy (St Martin's Press 1981), known as The Ironmaster (Macmillan 1981) in the UK
    • The Vivian Inheritance (Macmillan 1982) (St Martin's Press 1982)
    • The Northern Correspondent (Macmillan 1984) (St Martin's Press 1984)[3]
  • 100 Years Around the Lizard (Bossiney Books 1985)
  • Great Houses of Cornwall (Bossiney Books 1987)
  • A Lasting Spring (Macmillan 1987) (St Martin's Press 1987)
  • Like We Used To be (Macmillan 1989) (St Martin's Press 1989)
  • Love Stories (contribution 'Snow Storm') (St Martin's Press 1990)
  • Summer Secrets (Macmillan 1990) Light in Summer (St Martin's Press 1991)
  • Kelly Park (Macmillan 1992) (St Martin's Press 1992)
  • Charades (Macmillan 1994) Family Games (St Martin's Press 1994)
  • The Witching Time (Gollancz 1998) (St Martin's Press 1998)

References

  1. ^ a b c d Publications, Europa (2003). International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. p. 533. ISBN 1857431790.
  2. ^ N. A. N. A (2015). Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. pp. 1361–64. ISBN 978-1349813667.
  3. ^ a b Husband, Janet; Husband, Jonathan F (2009). Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series. p. 642. ISBN 978-0838909676.