Marie Joseph

Marie Joseph
Born	Lancashire, England, UK
Pen name	Marie Joseph
Occupation	Novelist
Language	English
Nationality	British
Period	1960s–1992
Genre	Romance
Notable awards	RoNA Award
Spouse	yes
Children	2

Marie Joseph (b. Lancashire, England) was a British writer of short-stories in magazines, 16 romance novels and a book about her arthritis. In 1987, her novel A Better World Than won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Biography

Personal life

Marie Joseph was born in Lancashire, England, UK, and was educated at Blackburn High School for Girls. She was in the Civil Service, before her marriage with a chartered Engineer. They had two daughters, now married, and eight grandchildren. She lived in Middlesex with her retired husband.

Career

Marie Joseph started to write at the age of 40, and she managed to publish in journals during the 1960s and 1970s, the stories are reedited in collection in the 1990s. She published her first long romance novel in 1975. In 1976, she wrote a book about her life with arthritis. She continued publishing romance novels until 1992.

Bibliography

Single novels

• The Guilty Party (1975)
• One Step at a Time (1976)
• Ring-a-roses (1979)
• Maggie Craig (1980)
• A Leaf in the Wind (1980)
• Emma Sparrow (1981)
• Gemini Girls (1982)
• The Listening Silence (1983)
• Lisa Logan (1984)
• Polly Pilgrim (1984)
• The Clogger's Child (1985) aka Prelude (US title)
• The Travelling Man (1989)
• Since He Went Away (1992)

Daisy's World

1. A Better World Than This (1986)
2. A World Apart (1988)

Collections of short stories

• Passing Strangers and Other Stories (1987)
• When Love Was Like That: A Collection of Short Stories (1991)
• The Way We Were: A Collection of Short Stories (1994)
• A Time to Remember: A Collection of Short Stories (1997)

Non-fiction

• Footsteps in the Park (1976)