Joyce Dingwell

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Joyce Dingwell (actually Enid Joyce Owen Starr ; also wrote under the pseudonym Kate Starr ; * 1908 in Ryde City , Australia; † August 2, 1997 in Kincumber, New South Wales, Australia) was an Australian writer. She wrote over 80 romance and family novels that appeared between 1931 and 1986.

She was the first Australian author to live in Australia whose works were published by Milss & Boon . She described how she got into writing:

"My romance writing began with an avid romance-reading mother who devoured so many romances each week that I decide to save library trips by supplementing the supply myself."

"I started writing romance and family novels with a mother who was an avid reader of romantic novels and devoured so many novels every week that I decided to save the trip to the library by doing the replenishment myself."

- Joyce Dingwell

Works

As Joyce Dingwell

Single novels

  • Hum of the Forest (1931)
  • Australian Hospital (1955)
  • Greenfingers Farm (1955)
  • Second Chance (1956)
  • Will you surrender? (1957)
  • Wednesday's Children (1957), aka Nurse Trent's Children
  • If Love You Hold (1958), aka Love and Dr. Benedict , aka Doctor Benedict (USA)
  • The Coral Tree (1958)
  • Nurse Jess (1959)
  • The Girl at Snowy River (1959)
  • The House in the Timberwoods (1959)
  • Tender Conquest (1960)
  • Nurse Trent's Children (1961) aka Wednesday's Children
  • The Third in the House (1961)
  • The Wind and the Spray (1961)
  • River Nurse (1962)
  • The Boomerang Girl (1962)
  • The New Zealander (1963)
  • The English Boss (1964)
  • The Kindly Giant (1964)
  • The Timber Man (1964)
  • Project Sweetheart (1965)
  • The Man from the Valley (1966)
  • A Taste for Love (1967)
  • Clove Orange (1967)
  • I and My Heart (1967)
  • The Feel of Silk (1967)
  • Nurse Smith, Cook (1968) aka No Females Wanted
  • Hotel Southerly (1968/07)
  • Venice Affair (1968/09)
  • Demi-Semi Nurse (1969/01)
  • Spanish Lace (1969/01)
  • One String for Nurse Bow (1969/09)
  • Crown of Flowers (1969/10)
  • September Street (1969/11)
  • The Drummer and the Song (1969/12)
  • Mr. Victoria (1970/01)
  • West of the River (1970/05) aka Guardian Nurse
  • Pool of the Pink Lilies (1970/10)
  • Nickel Wife (1970/12)
  • A Thousand Candles (1971/05)
  • Sister Pussycat (1971/10)
  • Wife to Sim (1972/02)
  • Red Ginger Blossom (1972/03)
  • Friday's Laughter (1972/08)
  • There Were Three Princes (1972-09)
  • The Mutual Look (1973/07)
  • The Habit of Love (1974/05)
  • The Cattleman (1974/06)
  • Flamingo Flying South (1974/07)
  • The New Broom (1974/10)
  • Love and Lucy Brown (1974/12)
  • The Kissing Gate (1975/01)
  • Cane Music (1975/05)
  • Deep in the Forest (1975/10)
  • Corporation Boss (1975/11)
  • The Road Boss (1976/01)
  • Echo of Rory (1976/03)
  • Inland Paradise (1976/09)
  • A Drift of Jasmine (1977/04)
  • Remember September (1977/08)
  • Year of the Dragon (1977/11)
  • All the Days of Summer (1978/03)
  • The Truth Game (1978/06)
  • Tender Wings of Spring (1978/08)
  • The Boss's Daughter (1978/09)
  • The Angry Man (1979/06)
  • Come Back to Love (1980/04)
  • The All-the-Way Man (1980/12)
  • A Man Like Brady (1981/03)
  • Brother Wolf (1983/01)
  • Arousing Touch (1983/08)
  • Thousand Ways of Loving (1986/04)
  • Indian Silk (1986/06)

omnibus

  • Red Ginger Blossom / Wife to Sim / The Pool of Pink Lilies (1982)
  • Thousand Candles / The Mutual Look / There Were Three Prices (1983)

Collective collections

As Kate Starr

Single novels

  • Dolan of Sugar Hills (1961)
  • The Nurse Most Likely (1962)
  • Satin for the Bride (1963)
  • The Enchanted Trap (1963)
  • Dalton's Daughter (1964)
  • Patricia and the Rosefields (1964)
  • Sister for the Cruise (1964) aka Ship's Doctor
  • Bells in the Wind (1966)
  • Wrong Doctor John (1966)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Wrixon Thorpe (ed.): Who's Who of Australian Writers . 2nd Edition. National Center for Australian Studies, 1995, ISBN 978-1-875589-20-3 , pp. 822 .
  2. ^ Cover Lesley Henderson, DL Kirkpatrick: Twentieth-Century romance and historical writers . In: Twentieth-century writers series . 2nd Edition. St. James Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-912289-97-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Dingwell, Joyce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dingwell, Enid Joyce Owen Starr; Starr, Enid Joyce Owen (real name); Starr, Kate (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian author
DATE OF BIRTH 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Ryde City , New South Wales, Australia
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1997
Place of death Kincumber , New South Wales, Australia