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Anne Melville
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Margaret Edith Newman was born on 21 June 1926 in Harrow, Middlesex, London, England, UK, the eldest daughter of Marjory Edith (Donald), a former teacher, and Bernard Newman, author of fiction and non-fiction books and considered an authority on spies. She had two sisters, Hilary (Mrs. Richard Hipkin) and Lauriston (Mrs. Malcolm Norris). She was educated at Harrow County School for Girls, from 1937 to 1944; and studied her Major scholar at St Hugh's College, Oxford form 1944 to 1947, she aslo earned her B.A. in 1947 and her M.A. in 1952. On 11 February 1950, she married (Ronald) Jeremy Potter, a publisher and later also published writer of mystery novels. They had a daughter, Jocelyn, and a son, Jonathan. Widow since 15 November 1997, she died less than a year later on 26 August 1998 in Oxford, Oxfordshire.
Before writing, she worked in various jobs, as teacher in Egypt and England, from 1947 to 1950; as editor at King's Messenger children's magazine in London, from 1950 to 1955; and as adviser at Citizen's Advice Bureau in Twickenham, Middlesex, from 1962 to 1970. On 1959, she published her first mystery novel, Murder to Music as Margaret Newman. Her next novels were published under the pseudonym of Anne Betteridge, a tribute to her father's pseudonym Don Betteridge. Under her married name, Margaret Potter, she published Children's fiction. Under the pseudonym Anne Melville, she signed her historical novels since 1977. As Margaret Evans, she published two historical novels. She continued publishing until her death.
Full Series List in Order
The Hardie Family
1 - The House of Hardie (Jul-1987)2 - Grace Hardie (Oct-1988)
3 - The Hardie Inheritance (Jun-1990)
The Lorimer Family
1 - The Lorimer Line (Oct-1977)2 - Alexa (Jan-1979)
2 - The Lorimer Legacy (Jan-1979)
3 - Blaize (Oct-1980)
3 - Lorimers at War (Oct-1980)
4 - Family Fortunes (Oct-1981)
4 - Lorimers in Love (Oct-1981)
5 - The Last of the Lorimers (Jul-1983)
6 - Lorimer Loyalties (Nov-1984)
Book List in Order: 25 titles
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The Lorimer Line
- Oct-1977
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Volume One of the dramatic saga of the Lorimer Family. The Lorimers are one of the richest and most powerful Bristol families...When Margaret Lorimer, daughter of the autocratic chairman of Lorimer's Bank, asks her father if she can marry a compar...
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The Lorimer Legacy
- Jan-1979
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Volume Two of the dramatic saga of the Lorimer Family A Legacy may be of great value and still bring bad luck... Although Margaret Lorimer has made her own way as a doctor, she does not at all approve of the ambitions of her beautiful young ward A...
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Lorimers at War
- Oct-1980
- / General Fiction
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Volume Three of the dramatic saga of the Lorimer Family Scattered by War, but the Lorimer saga continues... The ball which Lord and Lady Glanville give for the 21st birthday of their nephew Brinsley Lorimer is a glittering social occasion in their...
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Family Fortunes
- Oct-1981
- / Historical Romance
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Volume Four of the dramatic saga of the Lorimer Family From the general strike to the Second World War the Lorimer spirit struggles to survive... On the peaceful Thameside estate of Blaize, Alexa (Lorimer) Glanville shares the long years of her wi...
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Lorimers in Love
- Oct-1981
- / General Fiction
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Volume Four of the dramatic saga of the Lorimer Family From the general strike to the Second World War the Lorimer spirit struggles to survive... On the peaceful Thameside estate of Blaize, Alexa (Lorimer) Glanville shares the long years of her wi...
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The Last of the Lorimers
- Jul-1983
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Volume Five of the dramatic saga of the Lorimer Family Survivors of a disappearing generation, the Lorimers struggle to preserve their heritafe... The end of the Second World War finds Kate Lorimer a refugee in occupied Germany. Once back in Engla...
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Lorimer Loyalties
- Nov-1984
- / General Fiction
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Volume Six of the dramatic saga of The Lorimer Family Unknown to each other, the Lorimer cousins share a history... Paula Mattison, unaware of her Lorimer connections, arrives from Jamaica, determined to make her mark in a country where she is now...
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The House of Hardie
- Jul-1987
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Volume One of the Griping New Saga of a Victorian Family's Fortunes. Set in Oxford where the Hardies are prosperous tradespeople, but their children are amibitious to move up the social ladder.......
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Grace Hardie
- Oct-1988
- / General Fiction
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Volume Two of the Enchanting Saga of a Victorian Family's Fortunes. In the summer of 1898, the Marquess of Ross travels to Oxford seeking reconciliation with his only granddaughter, Lucy. On meeting her children for the first and last time, the ol...
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The Dangerfield Diaries
- Jul-1989
- / Contemporary Romance
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This saga spans most of the 20th century as it tells the story of Dr Ainslie Dangerfield and her life-long love affair with Gil Blakey, a writer whose wife dies while under Ainslie's care....
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The Hardie Inheritance
- Jun-1990
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Grace Hardie leading a contented life as a sculptor, has chosen not to marry. But she is unable to maintain Greystones, the mansion she lives in to its former glory. Her life is transformed by the arrival of four uninvited visitors....
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The Tantivy Trust
- Feb-1992
- / Contemporary Romance
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In 1949 two schoolboys swear eternal friendship. To ten-year-old Tony, the spoiled heir of an immense fortune, friendship means the right to give presents and to demand favours. It is Andrew who teaches him differently. When the two boys grow up thei...
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A Clean Break
- Nov-1993
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Hedda's husband Sandy breaks the news that he is taking early retirement, she is taken aback but sympathizes when he tells her that the alternative is to relocate to Liverpool. Hedda can see why Sandy has chosen the easier option - until she hea...
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The Russian Tiara
- Jul-1994
- / Contemporary Romance
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A schoolgirl still, professor's daughter Laura has had few thoughts of romance - until she falls in love with her father's pupil, Prince Alexis Kristov. The dashing Russian seems beyond her reach, but when her father dies it is Alexis who offers Laur...
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Standing Alone
- May-1995
- / Women's Fiction
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One moment of motorway madness is about to shape the destinies of four women. None of them has ever met London publisher Jarvis Elliott, but his sudden illness triggers a train of events bringing Helen, Madge, Penny and Candida together, even as it f...
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The Longest Silence
- Feb-1996
- / Women's Fiction
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With her five sons by her first husband and the daughter of her present marriage, Susan is holidaying on the Turkish estate of her former father-in-law. When the local girl she employs as a nanny disappears, the carefully maintained structures of Sus...
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Just What I Wanted
- Aug-1997
- / Women's Fiction
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A beautiful model, recovering from illness, offers her lover the gift of truth. A television actress, imprisoned in the character she plays, is handed back her personal identity. A career woman, wondering whether she has made the right choices, is gi...
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The Eyes of the World
- Jul-1998
- / Suspense
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A young boy grows up to photograph half a century of history. Terts' Bradley's determination to reveal truth through photographs brought unhappiness to his family, but he became famous for using his camera to focus public attention on cruel abuses...
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The Daughter of Hardie
- Aug-2019
- / Historical
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Grace Hardie has grown up in a sweeping estate on the outskirts of Oxford. But her life has been a far cry from a fairytale. Ailing and asthmatic as a child, she never really found her place â€" not with her brothers, not with any friends â€" always ...
