Jean Stubbs
Jean Stubbs was a British writer.
She was born Jean Yvonne Higham in Denton, Lancashire the daughter of Joseph Higham, a lecturer at Manchester University and Millies Darby, and was educated at Manchester High School for Girls, the Manchester School of Art and Loreburn Secretarial College in Manchester. Stubbs worked as a copywriter for Henry Melland from 1964 to 1966 and was a reviewer for Books and Bookmen from 1965 to 1976. She died in the Helston district of Cornwall in 2012.
She received the Tom Gallon Trust Award for short story in 1964. Her 1973 novel Dear Laura was nominated for an Edgar Award.
She was married twice: first to Peter Stubbs in 1948 and then to Ray Oliver in 1980.Selected works
- The Rose Grower
- The Travellers
- Hanrahan's Colony
- The Straw Crown
- John Lintott series, historical mysteries
- * My Grand Enemy
- * The Case of Kitty Ogilvie
- * Dear Laura
- * The Painted Face
- * The Golden Crucible
- Unlikely Ghosts
- The Passing Star Eleanora Duse
- Winter's Crimes 3
- An Unknown Welshman
- The Eleventh Ghost Book
- Howarth family quartet, historical fiction 'Brief Chronicles' I-IV
- * By Our Beginnings, known as Kit's Hill in the UK
- * An Imperfect Joy, known as The Ironmaster in the UK
- * The Vivian Inheritance
- * The Northern Correspondent
- 100 Years Around the Lizard
- Great Houses of Cornwall
- A Lasting Spring
- Like We Used To be
- Love Stories
- Summer Secrets Light in Summer
- Kelly Park
- Charades Family Games
- The Witching Time
