Jane Arbor

Eileen Norah Owbridge (née Murphy; 8 September 1903 – 4 February 1994)[3] was a British writer who under the pseudonym Jane Arbor wrote 57 romances for Mills & Boon from 1948 to 1985.

Jane Arbor
BornEileen Norah Murphy
(1903-09-08)8 September 1903
Yeovil, Somerset, England[1]
Died4 February 1994(1994-02-04) (aged 90)
Worthing, West Sussex, England[2]
Pen nameJane Arbor
Occupationwriter
NationalityBritish
Period1948–1985
GenreRomance

She wrote doctor-nurse and foreign romances. Many of her doctor-nurse romances have been re-edited with different titles, that included medical words.[4] She lived in Preston, Sussex, England.[5]

Bibliography[4]

Single novels
  • This Second Spring, (1948)
  • Each Song Twice Over, (1948)
  • Ladder of Understanding, (1949)
  • Strange Loyalties = Doctor's Love, (1949)
  • By Yet Another Door = Nurse in Waiting, (1950)
  • No Lease for Love = My Surgeon Neighbor, (1950)
  • The Heart Expects Adventure, (1951)
  • Memory Serves My Love, (1952)
  • The Eternal Circle = Nurse Atholl Returns, (1952)
  • Flower of the Nettle = Consulting Surgeon, (1953)
  • Such Frail Armour = Nurse in Love, (1953)
  • Folly of the Heart = Nurse Harlowe, (1954)
  • Jess Mawney, Queen's Nurse = Queen's Nurse, (1954)
  • Dear Intruder, (1955)
  • City Nurse = Nurse Greve, (1956)
  • Towards the Dawn, (1956)
  • Yesterday's Magic, (1957)
  • Far Sanctuary, (1958)
  • No Silver Spoon, (1959)
  • Sandflower, (1959)
  • A Girl Named Smith, (1960)
  • Nurse of All Work, (1962)
  • Desert Nurse, (1963)
  • Jasmine Harvest, (1963)
  • Lake of Shadows, (1964)
  • Kingfisher Tide, (1965)
  • High Master of Clere, (1966)
  • Summer Every Day, (1966)
  • Golden Apple Island, (1967)
  • Stranger's Trespass, (1968)
  • The Cypress Garden, 1969/May)
  • Walk into the Wind, (1970/Jan)
  • The Feathered Shaft, (1970/May)
  • The Linden Leaf, (1971)
  • The Other Miss Donne, (1971/Aug)
  • Wildfire Quest, (1972/Jan)
  • The Flower on the Rock, (1972/Nov)
  • Roman Summer, (1973/Jul)
  • The Velvet Spur, (1974/Mar)
  • Meet the Sun Halfway, (1974/Aug)
  • The Wide Fields of Home, (1975/Mar)
  • Smoke into Flame, (1975/Nov)
  • Tree of Paradise, (1976/Aug)
  • Two Pins in a Fountain, (1977/Jan)
  • A Growing Moon, (1977/Jun)
  • Flash of Emerald, (1977/Dec)
  • Return to Silbersee, (1978/Aug)
  • Late Rapture, (1978/Dec)
  • Pact Without Desire, (1979/Jun)
  • The Devil Drives, (1979/Dec)
  • Where The Wolf Leads, (1980/Jul)
  • One Brief Sweet Hour, (1980/Dec)
  • Invisible Wife, (1981/Jun)
  • The Price of Paradise, (1982/Mar)
  • Handmaid to Midas, (1982/Oct)
  • House of Discord, (1983/Nov)
  • Lost Yesterday, (1985/Jul)

Omnibus collections
  • Feathered Shaft / Wildfire Quest / Flower on the Rock (1982)

Anthologies in collaboration
  • Fair Horizon / Desert Nurse / Queen's Counsel (1970) (with Rosalind Brett and Alex Stuart)
  • Golden Harlequin Library Vol. XVII: No Silver Spoon / Nurse Nolan / The Time and the Place (1971) (with Susan Barrie and Essie Summers)
  • Light in the Tower / Along The Ribbonwood Track / The Linden Leaf (1975) (with Jean S. MacLeod and Mary Moore)
  • Roman Summer / Flamboyant Tree / Black Niall (1977) (with Isobel Chace and Mary Wibberley)
  • Velvet Spur / The Habit of Love / Extraordinary Engagement (1979) (with Joyce Dingwell and Marjorie Lewty)
  • Other Miss Donne / Thistle and the Rose / Beyond the Foothills (1985) (with Margaret Rome and Essie Summers)
  • One Brief Sweet Hour / Once More With Feeling / Blue Lotus (1990) (with Natalie Sparks and Margaret Way)

References and sources
  1. "Bear Alley: Eileen Owbridge". Bear Alley. 13 May 2017. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  2. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
  3. Jane Arbor in Author and Book Info
  4. Jane Arbor in Fantastic Fiction, retrieved 21 September 2008
  5. Author and Book Info, retrieved 26 August 2011
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