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Marie Hampton Joseph

マリー・ハンプトン・ジョセフ

Marie Hampton Joseph

Aliases: Marie Hampton Downs
Pen Names: Marie Joseph（Pen name）

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1920-05-21 （Blackburn, Lancashire, England）
Died
1996-12-28 （Harrow, London, England） age 76
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
Lancashire, Blackburn → Middlesex

Career

Occupations
Novelist
Active Years
1960-1992

Education

Blackburn High School for Girls
Country: England

Awards

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
1987
Work: A Better World Than This
Organization: Romantic Novelists' Association
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

A Better World Than This

1986 Romance

First book in Daisy's World series.

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Bibliography

  • The Guilty Party (1975)
  • One Step at a Time (1976)
  • Ring-a-roses (1979)
  • Maggie Craig (1980)
  • A Leaf in the Wind (1980)
  • Emma Sparrow (1981)
  • Gemini Girls (1982)
  • The Listening Silence (1983)
  • Lisa Logan (1984)
  • Polly Pilgrim (1984)
  • The Clogger's Child (1985) aka Prelude (US)
  • A Better World Than This (1986)
  • Passing Strangers and Other Stories (1987)
  • A World Apart (1988)
  • The Travelling Man (1989)
  • When Love Was Like That: A Collection of Short Stories (1991)
  • Since He Went Away (1992)
  • The Way We Were: A Collection of Short Stories (1994)
  • A Time to Remember: A Collection of Short Stories (1997)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Romance novel style

Health

  • Arthritis
    1970年代
    Wrote a book about her life with arthritis.

Legacy

Known as a romance novelist, won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 1987.

Trivia

  • Started writing at age 40, published short stories in magazines.
  • Had two daughters and eight grandchildren.