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Maggie Ford

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Maggie Ford, also known as Elizabeth Lord (born 1928) was a British writer.

Ivy Lord
Lord in August 1996
Lord in August 1996
BornIvy May Lord
(1928-05-22)22 May 1928
London, England, United Kingdom
Died29 May 2020(2020-05-29) (aged 92)
Pen nameElizabeth Lord, Maggie Ford
OccupationSecretary, novelist
NationalityBritish
Period1975–2017
GenreRomantic novel
SpouseMr John Mackney (deceased),
Mr. Charles Titchen (deceased)

Early life and family

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Maggie Ford was born Ivy May Lord in London, England in 1928.[1][2] She became interested in writing when she retired from her full time job and wrote her first novel at the age of sixty six.[2]

Her first husband died in 1954, from a tragic accident at work.[2] She re-married and then started a nursery / garden centre with her second husband.[3]

Career

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Her writing career started when she wrote an article for Weekend magazine about a robbery that happened when she was at home with her daughter.[3]

In the 1970s, she started writing romantic stories for various magazines.[2][4]

In 1994, she published her first novel, Stolen Years.[2]

Her first historical romantic work Company of Rebels, published in 2004, has sold in the United Kingdom and the United States.[3]

In 2006, her next romantic fiction novel, Give Me Tomorrow, was published. Later, Publishers Weekly reviewed the novel.[5]

In 2013, her novel, The Soldier's Bride, was published which was later reviewed by Burnley Express.[4]

In 2014, her novel, Call Nurse Jenny, was published. The novel was reviewed by Blackpool Gazette.[1]

During her writing career, she was a member of Brentwood Writers' Circle, Billericay Arts Group as well as the Romanic Novelist Association.[2]

Bibliography

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  • Lord, Elizabeth (1994). Stolen Years
  • Lord, Elizabeth (1995). The Angry Heart
  • Lord, Elizabeth (1996). A Better Life
  • Lord, Elizabeth (1997). The Turning Tides
  • Lord, Elizabeth (1998). For All the Bright Promise
  • Lord, Elizabeth (1999). The Bowmaker Girls
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2000). Mile End Girl
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2001). Brenda's Place
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2001). Butterfly Summers
  • Lord, Elizabeth. Shadow's of Honour
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2002). From Bow to Bond Street
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2002). Autumn Skies
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2002). Shadow of the Protector
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2002). Fortunes Daughter
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2004). Company of Rebels
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2004). The Flower Girl
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2006). Give Me Tomorrow
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2006). To Cast a Stone
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2006). Winter Wine
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2007). A Secret Inheritance
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2009). Julia's Way
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2010). All That We Are
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2012). The Chandelier Ballroom[6]
  • Lord, Elizabeth (2013). Illusions of Happiness
  • Ford, Maggie (2013). The Soldier's Bride
  • Ford, Maggie (2014). A Mother's Love
  • Ford, Maggie (2014). Call Nurse Jenny
  • Ford, Maggie (2014). A Woman's Place
  • Ford, Maggie (2015). The Factory Girl
  • Ford, Maggie (2016). A Girl in Wartime
  • Ford, Maggie (2016). A Soldier's Girl
  • Ford, Maggie (2017). An East End Girl
  • Ford, Maggie (2018). The Fisherman's Girl
  • Ford, Maggie (2019). Rags to Riches
  • Ford, Maggie (2020). The Rag and Bone Girl
  • Ford, Maggie (2021). The Flower Girl
  • Ford, Maggie (2021). A Brighter Tomorrow
  • Ford, Maggie (2021). A Fall from Grace
  • Ford, Maggie (2021). A New Dream
  • Ford, Maggie (2021). One of the Family
  • Ford, Maggie (2021). Affairs of the Heart
  • Ford, Maggie (2021). Echoes of the Past
  • Ford, Maggie (2022). Mile End Girl
  • Ford, Maggie (2022). A New Dream
  • Ford, Maggie (2022). A Brighter Tomorrow
  • Ford, Maggie (2022). A Fall From Grace

References

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  1. ^ a b "Book review: Call Nurse Jenny by Maggie Ford". Blackpool Gazette.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "I read 50 Shades of Grey and found it a bit boring". Echo.
  3. ^ a b c "Novelist: Words worked in mysterious ways". East London and West Essex Guardian.
  4. ^ a b "Book review: The Soldier's Bride by Maggie Ford". Burnley Express.
  5. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Give Me Tomorrow by Elizabeth Lord". Publishers Weekly.
  6. ^ "Elizabeth Lord – She just can't stop writing!". 21 April 2012.