Margaret Pargeter
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Margaret Pargeter | |
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| Born | DOB unknown |
| Pen name | Margaret Pargeter |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Period | 1975–1986 |
| Genre | Romantic novels |
Margaret Pargeter is a British romance writer who wrote for Harlequin and Mills & Boon.[1][2] She penned nearly 50 romantic novels between 1975 and 1986.[3]
Biography
[edit]Pargeter was born in Northumberland, England.[3] She was widowed with two sons.[3]
According to an autobiographical essay by Pargeter published by Harlequin Enterprises in 1979, her father was a farmer in the Northumbrian Valley where she continued to live.[2] During the Second World War, she was a volunteer in the fire-fighting section of the Air Raid Precautions.[2] She started writing in her early teens, always carrying a notebook in her pocket.[2]
Pargeter wrote that she had her first break as a writer when her late husband urged her to enter a writing competition advertised in the newspaper.[2] Although she did not win anything, one of the editors liked her work and asked her to start writing serial stories for the paper.[2] Her first romantic novel was Winds from the Sea, which was accepted by Mills & Boon.[2]
Analysis
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]Single novels (Harlequin Romance)
[edit]- Winds from the Sea
- Ride a Black Horse
- The Kilted Stranger
- Blue Skies, Dark Waters
- Hold Me Captive
- Stormy Rapture
- Never Go Back
- Wild Inheritance
- Flamingo Moon
- Better to Forget
- Jewelled Caftan
- Marriage Impossible
- Midnight Magic
- The Wild Rowan
- Man Called Cameron
- The Devil's Bride
- Only You
- Savage Possession
- Boomerang Bride
- Autumn Song
- The Dark Oasis
- Dark Surrender
- Kiss of a Tyrant
- Deception
- At First Glance
- Captivity
- Not Far Enough
- Loving Slave
- Collision
- Substitute Bride
- Storm Cycle
- Prelude to a Song
- Man from the Kimberleys
- Caribbean Gold
- Silver Flame
- Storm in the Night
- Chains of Regret
- Clouded Rapture
- Demetrious Line
- Odds Against
- Born of the Wind
- Total Surrender
- Captive of Fate
- Model of Deception
- Impasse
- Lost Enchantment
- Other Side of Paradise
- Scarlet Woman
- Beyond Reach
- Misconception
Omnibus in collaboration
[edit]- Winds From The Sea/Island of Darkness/Wind River (1979) (with Rebecca Stratton and Margaret Way)
- Desert Castle/Collision Course/Ride A Black Horse (1980) (with Isobel Chace and Jane Donnelly)
- Return to Tuckarimba/Hold Me Captive/Greek Bridal (1981) (with Amanda Doyle and Henrietta Reid)
- Handful of Stars/Flamingo Moon/Lion in Venice (1982) (with Lucy Gillen and Margaret Rome)
- Garland of Marigolds/Red Diamond/Kilted Stranger (1983) (with Isobel Chace and Dorothy Cork)
- Reluctant Neighbor/Never Go Back/Island Masquerade (1983) (with Sheila Douglas and Sally Wentworth)
References
[edit]- ^ Moore, Arlene (1982). "Margaret Pargeter". Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Gale Research. pp. 535–537. ISBN 9780810302266.
- ^ a b c d e f g "MARGARET PARGETER". The first 30 years of the world's best romance fiction. Harlequin Enterprises. 1979. pp. 220–223. ISBN 9780373000012.
- ^ a b c Moore, Arlene (1990). "PARGETER, MARGARET". Twentieth-century romance and historical writers. Chicago: St. James Press. pp. 508–509. ISBN 1558621806.
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