• Norah Lofts, née Norah Ethel Robinson, (27 August 1904 – 10 September 1983) was a 20th-century British writer. She also wrote under the pen names Peter...
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    the Life of Anne Boleyn by Norah Lofts (1963) Anne, the Rose of Hever by Maureen Peters (1969) Anne Boleyn by Norah Lofts (1979) Mistress Anne: The Exceptional...
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  • it was adapted by Nigel Kneale from the 1960 novel The Devil's Own by Norah Lofts (as Peter Curtis). Schoolteacher Gwen Mayfield comes back to England...
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  • Green and John McCormick, based on the short story "Chinese Finale" by Norah Lofts. The musical score was conducted by Elmer Bernstein and the cinematography...
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    character in the next two novels in the series, Heartstone and Lamentation. Norah Lofts, in her biography of Walter Raleigh Here Was a Man, suggests that Elizabeth...
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  • Curtis (diplomat) (1929–2013), Australian public servant and diplomat Norah Lofts (1904–1983), British author, one of whose pen names is Peter Curtis Peter...
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    a major character in Edward German's operetta Merrie England (1902). Norah Lofts in her 1936 fictionalized biography of Walter Raleigh, Here Was a Man...
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  • historical melodrama set in the early 19th century, based on a novel by Norah Lofts. It is a Gainsborough melodrama, the only one to be made in Technicolor...
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    1913 poem by Guillaume Apollinaire Eleanor the Queen is a 1955 novel by Norah Lofts Penmarric, a 1971 family saga by Susan Howatch (as Rose Parrish); The...
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  • Adath Jeshurun of Jassy Synagogue, a defunct synagogue Jassy, a novel by Norah Lofts Jassy (film), a 1947 British film melodrama adaptation of the novel Iasi...
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    When Christ and His Saints Slept and Devil's Brood. The early part of Norah Lofts' biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine deals considerably with Louis, seen...
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    Frederik X of Denmark. Prince Frederick is an important character in Norah Lofts' historical novel The Lost Queen (1969), chronicling the tragic marriage...
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    Lord Brother the Lionheart by Molly Costain Haycraft The Lute Player by Norah Lofts Standard of Honor by Jack Whyte The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott Winning...
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    by popular historians such as Marie Louise Bruce, Hester W. Chapman, Norah Lofts, Carolly Erickson, Alison Weir, Lady Antonia Fraser and Joanna Denny...
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    Square (1920) by William Darling Lyell, Lovers All Untrue (1970) by Norah Lofts, and Alas, for Her That Met Me! (1976) by Mary Ann Ashe (pseudonym of...
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    autobiographical The Courts of Love (fifth in the 'Queens of England' series). Norah Lofts also wrote a fictionalized biography of her in 1955, entitled in various...
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  • book to the works of Daphne du Maurier, Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt, Norah Lofts and Evelyn Berckman, writing that it "tells very much the same kind of...
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    Geoffrey Vaughan Blackstone 1969 : The Lost Queen – a 1969 novel by Norah Lofts 1985 : Letter from Celle – a 1985 dramatic poem by Edward Lowbury 1999 :...
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    in several historical fiction novels, such as The King's Pleasure, by Norah Lofts, Three Sisters, Three Queens by Philippa Gregory and Katherine, The Virgin...
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    obliged Devoted Servant. Prince Edward is an important character in Norah Lofts' historical novel The Lost Queen (1969), chronicling the life of his...
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    Stewart Up the Down Staircase – Bel Kaufman Those Who Love – Irving Stone The Kon-Tiki Expedition – Thor Heyerdahl How Far to Bethlehem? – Norah Lofts...
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    by Jean Plaidy My Catalina by Maureen Peters The King's Pleasure by Norah Lofts The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory (a novel about Catherine's...
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    A. Henty's book Beric the Briton mentions some sections in the Fens. Norah Lofts features a character called Ethelreda Benedict, who comes from a small...
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  • has also appeared in a number of novels about Boleyn including ones by Norah Lofts and Margaret Campbell Barnes. In Evelyn Anthony's 1957 novel "Anne Boleyn"...
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    Contemporary painter Maggi Hambling, was born and resides in Suffolk. Norah Lofts, author of best-selling historical novels, lived for decades in Bury...
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    R. James published in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary in 1904. Author Norah Lofts, though born in Shipdham, Norfolk, bases many of her stories in Baildon...
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  • (novel), a 1911 novel by Cynthia Stockley The Claw, a 1981 novel by Norah Lofts The Claw, a 1983 novel by Ramsey Campbell The Claw, a 1995 novel in the...
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  • were eligible and there were several winners by non-U.S. authors (at least Lofts, Curie, de Saint-Exupéry, Du Maurier, and Llewellyn). The Bookseller Discovery...
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    by Geoffrey Vaughan Blackstone 1969: The Lost Queen – a 1969 novel by Norah Lofts 1985: Letter from Celle – a 1985 dramatic poem by Edward Lowbury 1999:...
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    Vaughan Blackstone 1969: The Lost Queen – a 1969 historical novel by Norah Lofts 1985: Letter from Celle – a 1985 dramatic poem by Edward Lowbury 1999:...
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