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Jean Stubbs


Born
in Lancashire, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1926

Genre
Mystery, Fiction, Historical Fiction


Aka Emma Darby

Jean was born in Lancashire and educated in Manchester. She has written many novels and short stories for magazines and collections, several of which have been adapted for radio and television. She has lived for more than twenty years in a cottage in Cornwall, England, with her husband. ...more

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Average rating: 4.1 · 2,812 ratings · 246 reviews · 65 distinct works • Similar authors
Kit's Hill (The Brief Chron...
4.21 avg rating — 621 ratings — published 1979 — 15 editions
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Dear Laura (Inspector Linto...
3.86 avg rating — 446 ratings — published 1973 — 27 editions
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The Ironmaster (The Brief C...
4.26 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 1981 — 9 editions
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The Northern Correspondent ...
4.47 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 1984 — 12 editions
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A Lasting Spring
4.24 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1987 — 9 editions
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The Vivian Inheritance (The...
4.44 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 1982 — 12 editions
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The Painted Face (Inspector...
4.01 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1974 — 12 editions
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The Golden Crucible (Inspec...
4.26 avg rating — 112 ratings — 10 editions
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An Unknown Welshman: A nove...
3.93 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1972 — 6 editions
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The Witching Time
3.51 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions
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Series by Jean Stubbs

Kit's Hill The Ironmaster The Vivian Inheritance The Northern Correspondent
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Kit's Hill An Imperfect Joy The Vivian Inheritance The Northern Correspondent
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Dear Laura The Painted Face The Golden Crucible
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“A good wife would have sorted him out and put him on the right road..." There comes that right road again. I wonder where it is? Imogen thought”
― Jean Stubbs, The Witching Time
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“She felt the press of friendly hands, the murmur of friendly voices. No one minded. Everyone understood. As”
― Jean Stubbs, The Witching Time
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“Only devotion prevailed against the terror. Love might and must yield in flesh, but never in spirit. The mother rocked her tortured child and was afraid of nothing but to be separated from it. Husband nursed wife in secret and in secret gave a kiss to the lips that would infect him. Whole families locked and bolted themselves inside their homes and defended the privilege of dying together.”
― Jean Stubbs, The Northern Correspondent
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