Margaret Pemberton

Margaret Hudson Pemberton
BornMargaret Hudson
10 April 1943 (1943-04-10) (age 81)
Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Pen nameMargaret Pemberton,
Carris Carlisle,
Christina Harland,
Maggie Hudson,
Rebecca Dean
OccupationWriter
NationalityBritish
Period1975-present
GenreRomantic fiction, women's fiction
SpouseMike Pemberton
Children5
Website
margaretpemberton.co.uk

Margaret Pemberton (née Hudson; born 10 April 1943) is a British writer of women's fiction since 1975. Beside her married name Margaret Pemberton, her writings have been published under her maiden name Maggie Hudson and the pseudonyms Carris Carlisle, Christina Harland, and Rebecca Dean.

A former chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1989–91) she has written novels in many different genres; romantic suspense, historical sagas, contemporary sagas and crime. Having travelled extensively, her novels are set in many different parts of the world.

Biography

Pemberton was born Margaret Hudson on 10 April 1943 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, daughter of Kathleen (Ramsden), an artist, and George Arthur Hudson, an architect.[1]

Married with Mike Pemberton, she has five adult children and lives in Whitstable, Kent, with her husband, and two small dogs.[2]

Pemberton was the fifteenth Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association from 1989 to 1991[3] and also served on the Crime Writers' Association Committee.

Published books

As Margaret Pemberton

Romantic suspense[4]
  • Rendezvous with Danger (1975) aka The Girl Who Knew Too Much
  • Mystery of Saligo Bay (1976) aka The Last Letter
  • The Guilty Secret (1979) aka A Dark Enchantment
  • Tapestry of Fear (1979)
  • Vengeance in the Sun (1980) aka The Villa d'Este
Historical romance[4]
  • Lion of Languedoc (1981)
  • Pioneer Girl (1982) aka A Many-Splendoured Thing
  • African Enchantment (1982)
  • Flight to Verechenko (1983) aka A Rebellious Heart
  • Devil's Palace (1983) aka The Reckless Miss Grainger
  • Moonflower Madness (1993)
  • Forget-me-Not Bride (1994)
Nightshades[4]
  • Forever (1982) aka Undying Love
Period sagas[4]
  • Silver Shadows, Golden Dreams (1985) aka Goddess
  • Never Leave Me (1986) aka The Violins of Autumn
  • A Multitude of Sins (1998) aka A Time to Remember
  • White Christmas in Saigon (1990)
  • An Embarrassment of Riches (1992)
  • Zadruga (1994)
  • The Londoners trilogy
  1. The Londoners (1995)
  2. Magnolia Square (1996)
  3. Coronation Summer (1997)
  • Yorkshire Rose (1997)
  • Harlot (1998) aka The Far Morning
  • Yorkshire Rose (1997)
  • The Four of Us (2004)
  • A Season of Secrets (2015)
  • Beneath the Cypress Tree (2017)

As Carris Carlisle

  • Party in Peking (1987) aka From China With Love

As Christina Harland

  • Waiting Wives (1991)

As Maggie Hudson

Novels[5]

  • Tell Me No Secrets (1999)
  • Fast Women (2000)
  • Looking for Mr Big (2001)
  • Nowhere to Run (2002)

As Rebecca Dean

Novels[6]

  • Enemies of the Heart (2008)
  • Palace Circle (2009)
  • The Golden Prince (2010)
  • The Shadow Queen (2012) aka Wallis (2012)

References

  1. ^ Ann Evory; Pamela Dear (2000), Contemporary Authors, Gale, p. 500
  2. ^ Rebecca Dean at HarperCollins, archived from the original on March 2, 2012
  3. ^ Past RNA Officers, archived from the original on 2016-03-11, retrieved 2010-01-03
  4. ^ a b c d Margaret Pemberton at fantasticfiction
  5. ^ Maggie Hudson at fantasticfiction
  6. ^ Rebecca Dean at fantasticfiction

External links

  • Margaret Pemberton at Library of Congress, with 8 library catalogue records under that name
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