Brenda Jagger

Brenda Jagger
Born(1936-09-07)7 September 1936
Yorkshire, England, UK
Died1986 (aged 49–50)
OccupationNovelist
SpousePhillip Jagger
ChildrenClaudia Carvel, Vanessa Casatello, Alexandra Darby
Writing career
Pen nameBrenda Jagger
LanguageEnglish
Period1978–1986
GenreRomance
Notable awardsRoNA Award

Brenda Jagger (born 9 July 1936 in Yorkshire, England – d. 1986) was a British writer of 9 historical romance novels. In 1986, her last novel A Song Twice Over won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.[1]

Biography

Brenda Jagger was born on 9 July 1936 in Yorkshire, England, UK. She married, and had three daughters. Before writing, she worked in Paris, France, and as a probation officer in the north of England.[2]

She published her first novel Antonia in 1978, set in Ancient Rome, like her novel Daughter of Aphrodite. Most of her other novels are set in Victorian era Yorkshire, like her popular Barforth Trilogy.

Brenda Jagger died in 1986.

Bibliography

Single novels

  • Antonia (1978)
  • Daughter of Aphrodite (1981)
  • Days of Grace (1983)
  • A Winter's Child (1984)
  • A Song Twice Over (1985)
  • Distant Choices (1986)

The Barforth Trilogy

  1. The Clouded Hills (1980) a.k.a. Verity (US title)
  2. Flint and Roses (1981) a.k.a. The Barforth Women (US title)
  3. The Sleeping Sword (1982) a.k.a. An Independent Woman (US title)
  • The Barforth Trilogy: The Clouded Hills / Flint and Roses / Sleeping Sword (omnibus) (1988)

References and sources

  1. ↑ Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 2 October 2012
  2. ↑ Lesley Henderson; D. L. Kirkpatrick (1990), Twentieth-century romance and historical writers, St. James Press, p. 856