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Elizabeth Houghton
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Elizabeth Houghton Blanchet was born on 1 March 1913 in Lachine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was one of the five chindren of Muriel Wylie Liffiton, also a writer, and Geoffrey Orme Banchet, a banker. She studied nursing, and she met J. Gilzean in Bermuda, where he was stationed, and they married. In 1946, the family moved to England. The marriage ended in divorce, and later she remarried with J. Parry. She worked as nurse and freelance journalist, before worked as novelist.
Elizabeth wrote under three penames: Elizabeth Gilzean, Elizabeth Houghton and Mary Hunton. Houghton was her middle name and Hunton, was their paternal grandmother's maiden name.
Elizabeth passed away on 12 October 1995 in England.
Book List in Order: 10 titles
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Island Hospital
- 1959
- / Contemporary Romance
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Could this new land promise her love? Accustomed to a big London hospital, Sheila found the tiny island hospital on the Pacific coast of Canada rather strange at first. She wasn't quite sure she could handle the informal ways of the small staf...
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Staff Nurse in the Tyrol
- 1960
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Sonia took a hospital post in the lovely Tryolean mountains she was not merely trying to recapture the enchantment of the holiday she had spent there. She wanted a chance to feel she was really being of use, to show her possessive parents -- and...
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Doctor Sara Comes Home
- 1961
- / Contemporary Romance
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Sara Lloyd was a brilliant doctor, but an unfortunate mishap had badly jolted her confidence and made her feel that her career was ruined. She felt she had to get away from everything, and try for the time being to forget she had ever been a doctor. ...
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Love for the Matron
- 1962
- / Contemporary Romance
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Elizabeth Graham had a difficult task in succeeding a paragon of a predecessor as Matron of St. Genevieve's Hospital. She hoped her new-found love for the surgeon William Gregory would help her to surmount her difficulties -- but found that the r...
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Surgeon for Tonight
- 1963
- / Contemporary Romance
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The "surgeon for tonight" was David Ritchie, dedicated to his job -- a man who found little time for play and less for women. Could he become "human" in time to save Jan from making a marriage that would salve her conscience but break her heart?...
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Part-Time Nurse // Part-Time Angel
- Jul-1964
- / Contemporary Romance
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Karen's work as a nurse -- the chance to be herself -- made up for having to play second fiddle at home to her glamorous half-sister Celia. And she had found a good friend in Dr. Simon Guthrie. Then Simon met Celia!...
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Doctor of Research
- May-1966
- / Contemporary Romance
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It was a receptionist's muddle that sent Julie Garth to the wrong interview at the Halliday Institute of International Research, so that instead of the theatre sister's post she had applied for, she was offered a job comprising "secretary...
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New Surgeon at St. Lucian's
- Jan-1967
- / Contemporary Romance
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Ever since the new surgeon, Mark Castle, had there had been trouble for Staff Nurse Fiona. Glamorous , spiteful, house surgeon, Aurora Kane, did nothing to ease matters. Staff Nurse Fiona Graham is disappointed when Mark Castle is appointed new Su...
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The Return of Sister Barnett
- Nov-1967
- / Contemporary Romance
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After an unhappy patch in her life, Jill Barnett was looking forward to taking up her old life as ward sister at St. William's Hospital -- and disappointed when everything was spoiled by the jealousy of the staff nurse who had wanted her job. ...
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The Stubborn Dr. Stephen
- Jun-1968
- / Contemporary Romance
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Because of something in the past, Nurse Jinny's father disapproved of her associating with the new R.S.O. And, for the same reason, the new R.S.O. disapproved of her father. Where did her first loyalties lie?...