Anne Hampson

Anne Hampson
Born Anne Hampson
28 November
England
Pen name Jane Wilby
Occupation Novelist
Nationality British
Period 1969–2005
Genres Romantic novel

Anne Hampson (b. 28 November) was a British writer of over 125 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1969 to 1998. She published historical romance novels under the pseudonym Jane Wilby. Although she retired in 1998, in 2005 she published two romance and a crime novel. She has written an autobiography entitled Fate Was My Friend.

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Early life

Hampson dreamed of teaching and writing when she was six, but due to the depression after World War II, she had to leave her studies at fourteen and begin making blouses for Marks & Spencer's. She left work when she married.

Later, when her marriage broke up, she had to return to work and lived in a tiny caravan. But, when Manchester University decided to trial older women she applied and graduated.

Career

In 1973, she became a launch author for the new Harlequin Presents line of category romance novels. Harlequin Presents books were more sensual than the previous line, Harlequin Romance, under which she had been published. She was chosen to be a launch author because she, along with Violet Winspear and Anne Mather, were the most popular and prolific of Harlequin's authors.[1]

Bibliography

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As Anne Hampson

Single novels

Collections

As Jane Wilby

Single novels

Antologies in collaboration

Autobiography

Notes

  1. ^ Hemmungs Wirten, Eva (1998), "Global Infatuation: Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts. The Case of Harlequin Enterprises and Sweden" (PDF), Section for Sociology of Literature at the Department of Literature, Number 38 (Uppsala University), ISBN 97-85178-28-4, http://www.abm.uu.se/evahw/Global_Infatuation.pdf, retrieved 2007-08-24 
  2. ^ Fantastic Fiction's Book List by Anne Hampson, http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/anne-hampson/, retrieved 2009-11-07 

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