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| name = Violet Vivian Finlay Porch Santow Stuart Mann | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V.A. Stuart, William Stuart Long, Robyn Stuart | birth_name = Violet Vivian Finlay | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|1|2|df=y}} | birth_place = Berkshire, England, United Kingdom | death_date = {{BirthDeathAge|df=yes| |1914|1| |1986|8| }} | death_place = Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom | occupation = novelist, medical doctor | nationality = British | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = 1953–1986 | genre = Romance, military, historical fiction | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = 1# Mr. Porch, 2# Geza Santow, 3# Mr. Stuart, 4# Cyril William Mann | partner = | children = 5 | relatives = Sir Campbell Kirkman Finlay (father) | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | website = | portaldisp = }} Vivian Stuart, née Violet Vivian Finlay (2 January 1914 in Berkshire, England – August 1986 in Yorkshire), was a British writer from 1953 to 1986. She published under different pen names: her romantic novels as Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, and Robyn Stuart, her military sagas as V.A. Stuart, and her historical saga as William Stuart Long. In 1960, she was a founder of the Romantic Novelists' Association, along with Denise Robins, Barbara Cartland, and others; she was elected the first Chairman.[1] In 1970, she became the first woman to chair Swanwick writers' summer school.[2] BiographyPersonal lifeViolet Vivian Finlay was born in Berkshire, England on 2 January 1914. She was the daughter of Alice Kathleen (née Norton) and Sir Campbell Kirkman Finlay, the owner and director of Burmah Oil Company Ltd., whose Scottish family also owned James Finlay and Company Ltd. The majority of her childhood and youth was spent in Rangoon, Burma (now also known as Myanmar), where her father worked. Finlay married four times and bore five children, Gillian Rushton (née Porch), Kim Santow, Jennifer Gooch (née Stuart), and twins Vary and Valerie Stuart. Following the dissolution of her first marriage, she studied for a time Law in London in the mid 1930s, before decided studied Medicine at the University of London. Later she spent time in Hungary in the capacity of private tutor in English, while she obtained a pathologist qualification at the University of Budapest in 1938. In 1939, she emigrated to Australia with her second husband, a Hungarian Doctor Geza Santow with whom she worked. In 1942, she obtained a diploma in industrial chemistry and laboratory technique at Technical Institute of Newcastle. Having earned an ambulance driver's certificate, she joined the Australian Forces at the Women's Auxiliary Service during World War II. She was attached to the IVth Army, and raised to the rank of sergeant, she was posted to British XIV Army in Rangoon, Burma in October 1945, and was then transferred to Sumatra in December. After the war she returned to England. On 24 October 1958, she married her fourth and last husband, Cyril William Mann, an investment banker. Violet Vivian Mann died on August 1986 in Yorkshire, at age 72. She continued writing until her death. Writing careerShe published her first novels in 1953. She signed her romantic fiction as Vivian Stuart, one of her married names, and under the pen names of Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay and Robyn Stuart, while for her military sagas, "Alexander Sheridan Saga" and "Phillip Hazard Saga" she used the name V.A. Stuart, and William Stuart Long was her pen name for the popular historical series: "Australians", based on her research at The Mitchell Library Sydney; The National Maritime Museum; British Public Records Office and the New York Public Library. Many of her romance novels were protagonized by doctors or nurses, and set in Asia, Australia or other places she had visited. Her novel, "Gay Cavalier" (1955 as Alex Stuart) caused trouble between Vivian and her Mills & Boon editors. She featured a secondary story line featuring a Catholic male and Protestant female who chose to marry. This so-called "mixed marriage" outraged many people in the United Kingdom at the time. In 1960, she was a founder of the Romantic Novelists' Association, along with Denise Robins, Barbara Cartland, and others; she was elected the first Chairman. In 1970, she became the first woman to chair Swanwick writers' summer school. BibliographySome of Vivian's novels are released under different pen names or titles. As Vivian Stuart[3]Single novels
Non fiction
Non fiction in collaboration
Alex Stuart[4]Single novels
Anthologies in collaboration
As Barbara Allen[5]Single novels
As Fiona FinlaySingle novels
As V.A. Stuart[6]Alexander Sheridan Series
Phillip Hazard Series
As William Stuart Long[7]Australians Series
As Robyn Stuart[8]Single novels
References and sources1. ^{{Citation|title=Past RNA Officers|url=http://www.rna-uk.org/index.php?page=pastofficers|access-date=13 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311040656/http://rna-uk.org/index.php?page=pastofficers|archive-date=11 March 2016|dead-url=yes|df=dmy-all}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Stuart, Vivian}}2. ^{{cite book|last=Martin|first=Nancy|title=Venture of Faith – A History of Swanwick|date=1983|publisher=H.E. Walter Ltd|location=Worthing|isbn=0 85479 066 7}} 3. ^{{Citation|title=Vivian Stuart at FantasticFiction|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/vivian-stuart}} 4. ^{{Citation|title=Alex Stuart at FantasticFiction|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/alex-stuart}} 5. ^{{Citation|title=Barbara Allen at FantasticFiction|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/a/barbara-allen}} 6. ^{{Citation|title=V.A. Stuart at FantasticFiction|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/v-a-stuart}} 7. ^{{Citation|title=William Stuart Long at FantasticFiction|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/william-stuart-long}} 8. ^{{Citation|title=Robyn Stuart at FantasticFiction|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/robyn-stuart}} 11 : 1914 births|1986 deaths|Date of death missing|English women novelists|English romantic fiction writers|English adventure novelists|English historical novelists|Women romantic fiction writers|20th-century British women writers|20th-century English novelists|Women historical novelists |
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