| 词条 | Margaret Potter |
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| name = Margaret Potter | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = Margaret Newman, Anne Betteridge, Margaret Potter, Anne Melville | birth_name = Margaret Edith Newman | birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|06|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = Harrow, Middlesex, London, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|08|26|1926|06|21|df=yes}} | death_place = Oxford, England | resting_place = | occupation = Teacher, editor, novelist | language = English | nationality = British | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = 1959–98 | genre = Romance, mystery, children's, family sagas | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = Jeremy Potter (1922–97) | partner = | children = 2 | relatives = Bernard Newman (father) | influences = | influenced = | awards = RNA Award | signature = | signature_alt = }}Margaret Potter, née Margaret Newman (born 21 June 1926 in Harrow, Middlesex, London, England – d.26 August 1998 in Oxford, England) was a British writer of over 55 Romance, mysteryand children's novels and family sagas, as well as many short stories. She wrote under her maiden and married names, and also under the pseudonyms of Anne Betteridge and Anne Melville. In 1967, her novel The Truth Game won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.[1] She was the daughter of Bernard Newman and wife of Jeremy Potter, both also published writers. BiographyPersonal lifeBorn Margaret Edith Newman 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.[2] 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 from 1944 to 1947, she also earned her B.A. in 1947 and her M.A. in 1952.[3][4] 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.[5] Career and worksBefore 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.[3][4] 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. She continued publishing until her death. BibliographyAs Margaret NewmanSingle novel
As Anne BetteridgeSingle novels
As Margaret PotterSingle novels
As Anne MelvilleLorimer Family
Hardie Family
Single novels
Short story collections
Non-fiction
References and sources1. ^{{Citation|title=Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association|url=http://www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org/index.php/awards|date=1 August 2012}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Potter, Margaret}}2. ^{{Citation| author1 = Anne Commire | authorlink=Anne Commire | title = Something about the author | volume = 21 | publisher = Gale Research Company | pages = 232 | date = 15 January 1981}} 3. ^1 {{Citation| author1 = James Vinson | author2 = D. L. Kirkpatrick | title = Twentieth-century romance and gothic writers | publisher = Gale Research | pages = 898 | year = 1982}} 4. ^1 {{Citation| author1 = Lesley Henderson | author2 = D. L. Kirkpatrick | title = Twentieth-century romance and historical writers | publisher = St. James Press | pages = 856 | year = 1990}} 5. ^{{Citation|title=Novelist Margaret Potter dies at 72 at OxfordMail|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/1998/09/14/Oxfordshire+Archive/6638569.Novelist_Margaret_Potter_dies_at_72/|date=1 August 2012}} 14 : 1926 births|1998 deaths|People from Middlesex|English romantic fiction writers|Place of death missing|Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford|RoNA Award winners|20th-century English novelists|20th-century British women writers|People from Harrow, London|Women romantic fiction writers|English women novelists|Pseudonymous women writers|Pseudonymous writers |
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