Joyce Dingwell
Enid Joyce Owen Starr Dingwell | |
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| Born | Enid Joyce Owen Starr 1909 City of Ryde, Sydney, Australia |
| Died | 2 August 1997 (aged 87–88) Kincumber, Sydney, Australia |
| Pen name | Joyce Dingwell, Kate Starr |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Period | 1931–1986 |
| Genre | Romance |
Joyce Dingwell, née Enid Joyce Owen Starr (1909 in City of Ryde, Sydney, Australia – 2 August 1997 in Kincumber, Sydney), an Australian writer of more than 80 romance novels at Mills & Boon from 1931 to 1986, who also wrote under the pseudonym of Kate Starr. Her novel The House in the Timberwoods (1959), had been made into a motion picture: The Winds of Jarrah (1983).[1]
Biography
[edit]She was born Enid Joyce Owen Starr on 1909 in City of Ryde, New South Wales, Australia.[2][3] She was the first Australian writer, who lived in Australia, to be published by Mills & Boon.
My romance writing began with an avid romance-reading mother who devoured so many romances each week that I decide to save library trips by supplementing the supply myself.
— Joyce Dingwell[4]
Bibliography
[edit]As Joyce Dingwell
[edit]Single novels
[edit]- Hum of the Forest (1931)
- Australian Hospital (1955)
- Greenfingers Farm (1955)
- Second Chance (1956)
- Will You Surrender? (1957)
- Wednesday's Children (1957) a.k.a. Nurse Trent's Children
- If Love You Hold (1958) a.k.a. Love and Dr. Benedict aka Doctor Benedict (USA)
- The Coral Tree (1958)
- Nurse Jess (1959)
- The Girl at Snowy River (1959)
- The House in the Timberwoods (1959)
- Tender Conquest (1960)
- Nurse Trent's Children (1961) a.k.a. Wednesday's Children
- The Third in the House (1961)
- The Wind and the Spray (1961)
- River Nurse (1962)
- The Boomerang Girl (1962)
- The New Zealander (1963)
- The English Boss (1964)
- The Kindly Giant (1964)
- The Timber Man (1964)
- Project Sweetheart (1965)
- The Man from the Valley (1966)
- A Taste for Love (1967)
- Clove Orange (1967)
- I and My Heart (1967)
- The Feel of Silk (1967)
- Nurse Smith, Cook (1968) a.k.a. No Females Wanted
- Hotel Southerly (1968/07)
- Venice Affair (1968/09)
- Demi-Semi Nurse (1969/01)
- Spanish Lace (1969/01)
- One String for Nurse Bow (1969/09)
- Crown of Flowers (1969/10)
- September Street (1969/11)
- The Drummer and the Song (1969/12)
- Mr. Victoria (1970/01)
- West of the River (1970/05) a.k.a. Guardian Nurse
- Pool of the Pink Lilies (1970/10)
- Nickel Wife (1970/12)
- A Thousand Candles (1971/05)
- Sister Pussycat (1971/10)
- Wife to Sim (1972/02)
- Red Ginger Blossom (1972/03)
- Friday's Laughter (1972/08)
- There Were Three Princes (1972/09)
- The Mutual Look (1973/07)
- The Habit of Love (1974/05)
- The Cattleman (1974/06)
- Flamingo Flying South (1974/07)
- The New Broom (1974/10)
- Love and Lucy Brown (1974/12)
- The Kissing Gate (1975/01)
- Cane Music (1975/05)
- Deep in the Forest (1975/10)
- Corporation Boss (1975/11)
- The Road Boss (1976/01)
- Echo of Rory (1976/03)
- Inland Paradise (1976/09)
- A Drift of Jasmine (1977/04)
- Remember September (1977/08)
- Year of the Dragon (1977/11)
- All the Days of Summer (1978/03)
- The Truth Game (1978/06)
- Tender Wings of Spring (1978/08)
- The Boss's Daughter (1978/09)
- The Angry Man (1979/06)
- Come Back to Love (1980/04)
- The All-the-Way Man (1980/12)
- A Man Like Brady (1981/03)
- Brother Wolf (1983/01)
- Arousing Touch (1983/08)
- Thousand Ways of Loving (1986/04)
- Indian Silk (1986/06)
Omnibus
[edit]- Red Ginger Blossom / Wife to Sim / The Pool of Pink Lilies (1982)
- Thousand Candles / The Mutual Look / There Were Three Prices (1983)
Collections in collaboration
[edit]- Orphan Bride / Full Tide / House in the Timberwoods (1971) (with Celine Conway and Sara Seale)
- Velvet Spur / The Habit of Love / Extraordinary Engagement (1979) (with Jane Arbor and Marjorie Lewty)
- Deep in the Forest / Lord of the Forest / When Winter Has Gone (1981) (with Rachel Ford and Hilda Pressley)
- The Man From Coral Bay / Corporation Boss / Glen of Sighs (1981) (with Jan Anderson and Lucy Gillen)
As Kate Starr
[edit]Single novels
[edit]- Dolan of Sugar Hills (1961)
- The Nurse most Likely (1962)
- Satin for the Bride (1963)
- The Enchanted Trap (1963)
- Dalton's Daughter (1964)
- Patricia and the Rosefields (1964)
- Sister for the Cruise (1964) a.k.a. Ship's Doctor
- Bells in the Wind (1966)
- Wrong Doctor John (1966)
References and sources
[edit]- ^ Joyce Dingwell at IMDb, retrieved 30 November 2011
- ^ "Joyce Dingwell: (author/organisation) | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ^ Thorpe Pty, D.W. (1995), Who's Who of Australian Writers, National Centre for Australian Studies, p. 822
- ^ Henderson, Lesley; Kirkpatrick, D. L. (1990), Twentieth-century romance and historical writers, St. James Press, p. 856
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