Jean Stubbs

Jean Stubbs (23 October 1926 – 19 October 2012) was a British writer.

She was born Jean Yvonne Higham in

She was married twice: first to Peter Stubbs in 1948 and then to Roy Oliver in 1980.[1]

Selected works^[1]

• The Rose Grower (Macmillan 1962) (St Martin's Press 1963)
• The Travellers (Macmillan 1963) (St Martin's Press 1963)
• Hanrahan's Colony (Macmillan 1964)
• The Straw Crown (Macmillan 1966)
• John Lintott series, historical mysteries
  • My Grand Enemy (Macmillan 1967) (Stein & Day 1967)
  • The Case of Kitty Ogilvie (Macmillan 1970) (Walker 1971)
  • Dear Laura (Macmillan 1973) (Stein & Day 1973)
  • The Painted Face (Macmillan 1974) (Stein & Day 1974)
  • The Golden Crucible (Macmillan 1976)^[3](Stein & Day 1976)
• Unlikely Ghosts (contribution) (Taplinger 1969)
• The Passing Star (Macmillan 1970) Eleanora Duse (Stein & Day 1970)
• Winter's Crimes 3 (contribution) (Macmillan 1971)
• An Unknown Welshman (Stein & Day 1972)
• The Eleventh Ghost Book (contribution) (Barrie & Jenkins 1975)
• Howarth family quartet, historical fiction 'Brief Chronicles' I-IV
  • By Our Beginnings (St Martin's Press 1979), known as Kit's Hill (Macmillan 1978) in the UK
  • An Imperfect Joy (St Martin's Press 1981), known as The Ironmaster (Macmillan 1981) in the UK
  • The Vivian Inheritance (Macmillan 1982) (St Martin's Press 1982)
  • The Northern Correspondent (Macmillan 1984) (St Martin's Press 1984)^[3]
• 100 Years Around the Lizard (Bossiney Books 1985)
• Great Houses of Cornwall (Bossiney Books 1987)
• A Lasting Spring (Macmillan 1987) (St Martin's Press 1987)
• Like We Used To be (Macmillan 1989) (St Martin's Press 1989)
• Love Stories (contribution 'Snow Storm') (St Martin's Press 1990)
• Summer Secrets (Macmillan 1990) Light in Summer (St Martin's Press 1991)
• Kelly Park (Macmillan 1992) (St Martin's Press 1992)
• Charades (Macmillan 1994) Family Games (St Martin's Press 1994)
• The Witching Time (Gollancz 1998) (St Martin's Press 1998)

References