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Anne Betteridge

アン・ベットリッジ

An Bette Rijji

Aliases: Margaret Potter / Margaret Newman / Anne Melville
Pen Names: Margaret Newman（Maiden name）, Margaret Potter（Married name）, Anne Melville（Another pen name, mainly for historical novels）

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1926-06-21 （Harrow, Middlesex）
Died
1998-08-26 （Oxford, Oxfordshire） age 72
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Religion
None
Residence History
Harrow, Middlesex → Oxford

Career

Occupations
Teacher, Editor, Novelist
Active Years
1959-1998
Influenced By
Bernard Newman

Education

Harrow County School for Girls
General
Period: 1937-1944
Year of Graduation: 1944
Country: England
St Hugh's College, Oxford
Modern History
Period: 1944-1947
Year of Graduation: 1947
Country: England
Scholarship winner

Awards

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
1967
Work: The Truth Game
Organization: Romantic Novelists' Association
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Truth Game

1966 Romance

A romance novel that won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 1967.

LoveTruth

The Foreign Girl

1960 Romance

The Young Widow

1961 Romance

Bibliography

  • Murder to Music
  • The Foreign Girl
  • The Young Widow
  • Spring in Morocco
  • The Long Dance of Love
  • Return to Delphi
  • The Younger Sister
  • Single to New York
  • The Chains of Love
  • A Portuguese Affair
  • The Truth Game
  • A Little Bit of Luck
  • Shooting Star
  • Love in a Rainy Country
  • Sirocco
  • The Girl Outside
  • Journey from a Foreign Land
  • The Sacrifice
  • The Time of Their Lives
  • Stranger on the Beach
  • The Temp
  • The Tiger and the Goat
  • A Place for Everyone
  • The Touch-and-Go Year
  • The Blow-and-Grow Year
  • Sandy's Safari
  • The Story of the Stolen Necklace
  • Trouble on a Sunday
  • The Motorway Mob
  • Tony's Special Place
  • The Boys Who Disappeared
  • Tilly and the Princess
  • Unto the Fourth Generation
  • Lochandar
  • The Lorimer Line
  • The Lorimer Legacy
  • Lorimers at War
  • Lorimers in Love
  • The Last of the Lorimers
  • Lorimer Loyalties
  • The House of Hardie
  • Grace Hardie
  • The Hardie Inheritance
  • The Dangerfield Diaries
  • The Tantivy Trust
  • A Clean Break
  • The Russian Tiara
  • Standing Alone
  • The Longest Silence
  • Role Play
  • The Eyes of the World
  • Debutante
  • Snapshots
  • Just What I Wanted
  • Consequences: The Making of a Story-teller

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Typical romance novel styleFamily saga developments
Recurring Motifs
Conflicts of loveFamily bonds

Legacy

British writer of over 55 romance, mystery, children's novels and family sagas. Won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 1967. Father and husband were also writers.

Trivia

  • Her father was spy expert writer Bernard Newman.
  • Her husband was publisher and writer Jeremy Potter.
  • Pen name Anne Betteridge is a tribute to her father's pseudonym Don Betteridge.