Anne Rundle (née Lamb; 30 May 1920 – 31 Jan 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.
Biography
Personal life
Rundle was born in 1920 in Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, the 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.
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
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
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
External links
Marianne Lamont, Alexandra Manners, and Joanne Marshall at LC Authorities, with 3, 6, and 2 records LaMont, Manners, and Marshall in WorldCat libraries