Essie Summers (1912–1998)
Autore di To Bring You Joy
Sull'Autore
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Ethel Snelson Summers Flett wrote as Essie Summers.
Fonte dell'immagine: Ethel Snelson Summers Flett
Serie
Opere di Essie Summers
Harlequin Omnibus 14: The Master of Tawhai / His Serene Miss Smith / A Place Called Paradise (1975) 12 copie
Harlequin Omnibus 36: No Legacy for Lindsay / No Orchids by Request / Sweet Are the Ways (1980) 11 copie
Harlequin Omnibus 40: Heir to Windrush Hill / Rosalind Comes Home / Revolt-and Virginia (1976) 9 copie
Harlequin Omnibus 46: The House on Gregor's Brae / South Island Stowaway / A Touch of Magic (1976) 9 copie
Harlequin Omnibus 31: Summer in December / The Bay of Nightingales / Return to Dragonshill (1976) 6 copie
Romance Treasury: The Enchanted Island / The Kindled Fire / Rising Star (1975) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Harlequin Omnibus 86: The Forbidden Valley / Through All the Years / The Gold of Noon (1979) 5 copie
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXXIII: Flower for a Bride / Bachelors Galore / Hope for the Doctor (1970) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XXIX: White Doctor / Where No Roads Go / Nurse Elliot's Diary (1972) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XVII: No Silver Spoon / Nurse Nolan / The Time and the Place (1971) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Romance Treasury: The Time and the Loving / Anna of Strathallan / Blossoming Gold (1984) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Romance Treasury: The Little Dragon / Adair of Starlight Peaks / The Dark Warrior (1987) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume II: Heatherleigh / Sugar Island / Kate of Outpatients (1970) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Romance Treasury: Child of Tahiti / Trust in Tomorrow / Not by Appointment (1986) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Romance Treasury: The Other Miss Donne / The Thistle and the Rose / Beyond the Foothills (1985) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Rosalind Comes Home 1 copia
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XI: All I Ask / The House of the Shining Tide / Nurse of All Work (1971) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume V: Ship’s Surgeon / Lake of Shadows / Moon Over the Alps — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Golden Harlequin Library, Volume XLVI: A Nurse is Born / No Roses in June / Nurse Templar — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Summers, Essie
- Nome legale
- Summers Flett, Ethel Snelson
- Data di nascita
- 1912-07-24
- Data di morte
- 1998-08-27
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- New Zealand
- Luogo di nascita
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Luogo di morte
- Napier, New Zealand
- Luogo di residenza
- Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
draper's apprentice - Premi e riconoscimenti
- OBE
- Breve biografia
- Ethel Snelson Summers, well-know as Essie, was born on Bordesley Street in Christchurch, New Zealand on July 24, 1912. Her parents, Ethel Snelson (for whom she was named) and Edwin Summers, had immigrated to New Zealand from England exactly one year earlier. She had an older brother, Edwin and a younger brother, William. She grew up in a warm and happy home where reading and story-telling were highly valued, and from a very early age little Essie was making up her own stories. When a teacher read aloud "Emily of New Moon" by L M Montgomery, she knew then that she wanted to be a writer. When she was young she had red hair, like many of her heroines, and she has said that she had a very quick temper, which she later learned to control. Essie left school early for financial reasons and began work at Londontown Drapers and she did similar work for the next 13 years, until her marriage. Essie married William Flett, a minister, after a courtship conducted mainly by letters, and they settled into parish life together. They lived in various parts of the North and South Islands of New Zealand though they eventually settled in Hawke's Bay in the North Island. They had two children, William Temple and Elizabeth Lucia, and seven grandchildren. As a minister's wife and a mother, her life was very full, but she was still a prolific writer of short stories, poems and, for a time, a newspaper column. Finally, her husband told her that if she was to achieve her goal of having a novel published by the time she was forty-five, the time to start was now. With his help she was able to concentrate on her writing and had her first novel published the day after her forty-fifth birthday! She went on to become one of the world's most beloved romance writers and a strong supporter of other aspiring writers. When she had achieved some financial security with her writing, she and her husband fulfilled a life-long dream and travelled to Great Britain and parts of Europe, where she was able to visit many of the places where her ancesters had lived. She writes very movingly in her autobiography about seeing the places where her parents had come from and meeting her English relatives. Essie went on to use many of those settings in her novels. In all she wrote fifty-six novels and an autobiography, plus her family history, before her death in Napier at the age of eighty-six on August 27, 1998. She was predeceased by her husband in 1984. Many of her fans have travelled to New Zealand to see for themselves the country that she described so vividly in her books. Because of this Essie Summers was offered The Order Of The British Empire for her contributions to tourism.
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Ethel Snelson Summers Flett wrote as Essie Summers.
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- Opere
- 82
- Utenti
- 1,484
- Popolarità
- #17,305
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 28
- ISBN
- 256
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 5
Priscilla loved her boss, P.B. Lockhart. Since he was engaged to someone else, running away seemed a good idea.
She didn't run far enough. She stopped unexpectedly to come to the aid of the elderly Rosina Claremont at her country estate. Rosina was preparing to look after three children in spite of what her domineering nephew, Barnabas, would say.
Who could have foreseen that the formidable Barnabas was P.B. Lockhart?