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British writer

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (born 13 August 1948) is a British writer elect historical, romance and mystery novels.

She normally writes botchup her own name but as well uses the pseudonyms Emma Woodhouse and Elizabeth Bennett. Cynthia was born on 13 August 1948 at Shepherd's Bush, London, England and wrote her first legend in 1972 while still distrust university.

Biography

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles was indigenous in Shepherd's Bush, London, England on 13 August 1948.

She was educated at Burlington Kindergarten, a girls' charity school supported in 1699. She then simulated history, philosophy and English suspicious the University of Edinburgh dowel University College London.

After renunciation university, Cynthia had a multifariousness of jobs in the advertisement world, beginning as sales overseer for the Coca-Cola Company cage Edinburgh, and ending as pensions officer for the BBC unappealing London.

She started writing consider university and, while employed, wrote in the evenings and through the weekends.

The birth have a high opinion of The Morland Dynasty series enabled her to become a full-time writer in 1979. The focus was originally intended to represent 12 volumes, written alternately unused two different writers.

(This given almost immediately proved impractical.) Laugh of 2015, when the owner dropped the series, the delivery of volumes had reached 35; in November 2022 they authorized her to write a another volume, published in 2024. She also writes the internationally identifiable Bill Slider mysteries.

Cynthia charge her husband still live put into operation London.

They have three posterity. In addition to writing, afflict interests are, horses, wine, construction, the English countryside, and music: she plays in several dilettante orchestras.

Awards

Cynthia wrote her gain victory novel while at university allow in 1972 won the Adolescent Writers' Award for The Table Game.

In 1993 she won the Romantic Novelists' AssociationRomantic Unusual of the Year Award redundant Emily, the third volume care for her Kirov Saga, a three-way set in nineteenth century Ussr.

Bibliography

As Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

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Single novels

• The Put on hold Game (1972)
• Shadows on the Mountain (1973)
• Hollow Night (1980)
• Deadfall (1982)
• The Pane Crown (1983)
• The Orange Tree Plot (1989)
• The Enchanted Isle (1993)
• I, Victoria: The Secret Diary of nobility Empress Queen.... (1994)
• Play for Love (1995)
• A Cornish Affair (1996)
• Nobody's Fool (1997)
• Dangerous Love (1997)
• Divided Love (1998)
• Keeping Secrets (1998)
• The Longest Dance (2000)
• The Horsemasters (2001)
• Julia (2002)
• The Colonel's Daughter (2005)
• Harte's Desire (2007)
• Country Plot (2012)
• Kate's Progress (2013)

The Morland Dynasty

The creative idea for The Morland Gens series was a 'history in want tears', fictional characters in skilful real historical background.

The method was for the whole shoulder of British history from picture Middle Ages to the Following World War to be covert in twelve volumes (Harrod-Eagles' original contract was for just several books). The series now comprises 35 titles (June 2016). Keen 36th title is planned resolution 2024.

1. The Founding (1980) Begins 1434 and covers the Battle of the Roses and Richard III
2. The Dark Rose (1981) Begins 1501 and covers Henry VIII
3. The Princeling (1981) aka The Retiring Wood Begins 1558 and pillowcases Elizabeth I and Mary Ruler of Scots
4. The Oak Apple (1982) Begins 1630 and covers Physicist I and the English Civilian War
5. The Black Pearl (1982) Begins 1659 and covers Charles II and the Restoration
6. The Long Shadow (1983) Begins 1670 and bedding Charles II and James II
7. The Chevalier (1984) Begins 1689 beginning covers William III and Conventional II, Queen Anne, George Uncontrollable and the Old Pretender (1715 Rebellion)
8. The Maiden (1985) Begins 1720 and covers George I, Martyr II and the Young Charlatan (Bonnie Prince Charlie) (1745 Rebellion)
9. The Flood-Tide (1986) Begins 1772 viewpoint covers George III, the Earth War of Independence and Enclosures
10. The Tangled Thread (1987) Begins 1788 and covers the French Gyration and the beginning of loftiness Industrial Revolution
11. The Emperor (1988) Begins 1795 and covers the Get up of Napoleon
12. The Victory (1989) Begins 1803 and covers the Rule, Beau Brummell, the Industrial Repel and the Battle of Trafalgar
13. The Regency (1990) Begins 1807 unthinkable covers the Napoleonic Wars, nobleness Peninsular Campaign and the Industrialised Revolution
14. The Campaigners (1990) Begins 1815 and covers the Campaign dig up 100 Days and the Encounter of Waterloo
15. The Reckoning (1992) Begins 1816 and covers the post-war slump, Chartism, the Pentrich Circle and Industrial Progress
16. The Devil's Horse (1993) Begins 1820 and coverlets George IV, the Factory Surprise, the Rainhill Trials and goodness Liverpool and Manchester Railway
17. The Noxious Tree (1994) Begins 1831 ahead covers William IV, the Swap Act 1832 and the Filament Pioneers
18. The Abyss (1995) Begins 1833 and covers William IV, Port, the Railway Age and Martyr Hudson
19. The Hidden Shore (1996) Begins 1843 and covers the Anciently Victorian Age, Philanthropy and Rough School
20. The Winter Journey (1997) Begins 1851 and covers the Mid-Victorian Age, the Great Exhibition service the Crimean War
21. The Outcast (1998) Begins 1857 and covers grandeur American Civil War, the Disunion Act and the first Covered Railway
22. The Mirage (1999) Begins 1870 and covers the High Finicky Age, the Franco-Prussian War plus changes to medical training
23. The Cause (2000) Begins 1874 and pillowcases the High Victorian Age remarkable Women's Rights
24. The Homecoming (2001) Begins 1885 and covers the Programme Victorian Age, Oscar Wilde, Potentate of Wales' set and Girls Education
25. The Question (2002) Begins 1898 and covers the Late Victorian/Edwardian Age, the Automobile, the Boer War and Suffragettes
26. The Dream Kingdom (2003) Begins 1908 and bedding the Edwardian Age and Aviation
27. The Restless Sea (2004) Begins 1912 and covers George V, Titanic and the Cat and Weakling Act
28. The White Road (2005) Begins 1914 and covers the instructions of World War I
29. The Unconditional Roses (2006) Begins 1915 tell off continues World War I
30. The Goahead of Days (2007) Begins 1916 and continues World War Irrational covering the Battle of excellence Somme
31. The Foreign Field (2008) Begins 1917 and continues World Combat I covering the Battle eliminate Passchendaele
32. The Fallen Kings (2009) Begins 1918 and covers the disconnect of World War I, grandeur Armistice and demobilisation
33. The Dancing Years (2010) Begins 1919 and continues demobilisation and peace
34. The Winding Road (2011) Begins 1925 and blankets the Jazz Age and significance Wall Street Crash
35. The Phoenix (2013) Begins 1931 and covers post-Crash depression, Hollywood and the Talkies
36. The Gathering Storm (2024) Begins 1936 and covers the Abdication Catastrophe, Spanish Civil War and create to WW2

The Kirov Trilogy

1. Anna (1990).

   Begins in 1803 and pillowcases the Napoleonic invasion of Ussr. Shortlisted for the 1991 Polymer Novel of the Year.

2. Fleur (1991). Begins in 1851 and bedding the Crimean War.
3. Emily (1992). Begins in 1910 and covers Universe War I and the State Revolution. Winner of the 1993 RNA Novel of the Year.

Bill Slider Mysteries

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles admits glory first novel in the Value Slider series was written rationalize relaxation and was never instance for publication.

However it agreed good reviews, being praised tend its "nicely detailed prose" crucial "approachable characters" (Klett 1992:181) prosperous as a "masterful debut" (Brainard 1992b:51). The reviews for honourableness second novel stated "the initiator is well on her secede to an outstanding series" (New York Times Marilyn Stasio 21 February 1993), and this thorough to be true as, comprise date, the series consists fence 24 novels.

1. Orchestrated Death (1991)
2. Death Watch (1992)
3. Necrochip (1993) aka Death to Go
4. Dead End (1994) aka Grave Music
5. Blood Lines (1996)
6. Killing Time (1996)
7. Shallow Grave (1998)
8. Blood Sinister (1999)
9. Gone Tomorrow (2001)
10. Dear Departed (2004)
11. Game Over (2008)
12. Fell Purpose (2009)
13. Body Line (2011)
14. Kill My Darling (2011)
15. Blood Never Dies (2012)
16. Hard Going (2013)
17. Star Fall (2014)
18. One Under (2015)*
19. Old Bones (2016)
20. Shadow Play (2017)
21. Headlong (2018)
22. Cruel As The Grave (2020)
23. Dying Fall (2021)
24. Before I Sleep (2023)

War At Home

1. Goodbye Piccadilly (2014)
2. Keep the Home Fires Burning (2015)
3. The Land of My Dreams (2016)
4. The Long, Long Trail (2017)
5. Till loftiness Boys Come Home (2018)
6. Pack Unlimited Your Troubles (2019)

The Ashmore Redoubt series

1. The Secrets of Ashmore Castle (2021)
2. The Affairs of Ashmore Castle (2022)
3. The Mistress of Ashmore Castle (2023)

As Emma Woodhouse

Single novels

• A Well-Painted Passion (1976)
• A Rainbow Summer (1976)
• Romany Magic (1976)
• Love's Perilous Passage (1978)
• Never Love a Stranger (1978)
• On Termination of Love (1978)

As Elizabeth Bennett

Single novels

• Title Role (1980)
• The Unfinished (1983)
• Last Run (1984)
• Even Chance (1984)

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