Winifred Langford Mantle
English writer
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Winifred Langford Mantle (1911–1983) was an English writer of romantic novels and young adult fiction. She wrote under several pseudonyms, including Jan Blaine, Anne Fellowes, Frances Lang and Jane Langford.[1]
Life
Winifred Langford Mantle was born on 15 February 1911 in Staffordshire, England. She was the daughter of Joseph Longford Mantle and Florence Fellows.[1] She studied at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, gaining a BA in 1932.[2]
Mantle died on 13 November 1983, in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.[1]
Works
- Happy is the House: a novel, 1951.
- (as Jane Langford) Haste to the Wedding. Mills & Boon, 1955. A shorter version was published serially in Woman's Weekly.[3]
- The Secret Fairing, 1956.
- The Keys of Heaven, 1958.
- The Hiding Place, 1962.
- The Leaping Lords, 1963
- Tinker's Castle, 1963.
- Country Cousin: a novel, 1963.
- Sandy Smith, 1963.
- The Château Holiday, 1964.
- The Question of the Painted Cave, 1965
- The Penderel Puzzle, 1966.
- Summer at Temple Quentin, 1967.
- The Admiral's Wood, 1967.
- The Penderel House, 1966.
- Winter at Wycliffe, 1968
- The Tower of Remicourt, 1971
- Jonnesty, 1973.
- The Inconvenient Marriage, 1974.
- Jonnesty in Winter, 1975.
- The Beckoning Maiden, 1976.
- The Vanishing Bridegroom, 1980.
- To Be a Fine Lady, 1985.
