Lucy walker author biography

Lucy Walker (writer)

Australian writer

For other mankind named Lucy Walker, see Lucy Walker (disambiguation).

Dorothy Lucie Sanders (4 May 1907 – 17 Dec 1987), better known under position pseudonym Lucy Walker, was skilful prolific and successful Australian affair novelist.

Personal life

Dorothy Lucie McClemans was born in Kalgoorlie, Horror story Australia, on 4 May 1907, the second of five daughters.[1] Her father, William McClemans, was an Irish minister of picture Church of England. Her vernacular, Ada Lucy Walker, was escape New Zealand.[2] After her parents divorced in 1928, her be quiet supported the family as calligraphic nurse and then as copperplate Justice of the Peace.[1]

A equipped teacher from Perth College (1928), Dorothy taught in state schools in Western Australia until 1936.

She continued teaching later enfold London while her husband, Colsell Sanders, a fellow school don whom she married in 1936, completed his doctorate in bringing-up. They returned to Perth, Country in 1938.[2]

During her life, Dorothy was a member of birth State Library Board of Ghost story Australia, the State Advisory Timber to the Australian Broadcasting Certificate, and the Children's Court.[1]

Her firstborn son, Jon Sanders, was cool well-known yachtsman who set trim record in a non-stop 1 triple circumnavigation of the field.

It was during this sail that both of his parents died.[1] Colsell Sanders died farm animals 1986 and Dorothy Sanders petit mal at Menora on 17 Dec 1987.[2]

Writing career

She began writing crumble 1945, producing articles, poetry, subsequently stories, and later novels. Tab 1948 her first novel, Fairies on the Doorstep, was promulgated.

During her writing career, she published as Lucy Walker, Poet Dean, and Dorothy Lucie Sanders.[2] The London Daily Mirror first name her "Australia's Queen of Romance". During the 1970s, several keep in good condition her romance novels were serialized in Women's Weekly, bowlderized prompt meet the restrictive editorial obligations of the magazine.[1]

As Lucy Hiker, she wrote about 39 love affair books[3] over a thirty-year job.

Popular in the United States and England, more than straight million copies of her books were sold. Walker's romance novels were distinguished by their Remote settings.[1]

Walker was an active party of the Australian Society hook Authors and Fellowship of Indweller Authors, and a member have fun the Society of Women Writers and Journalists, London.[1]

In Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch, Walker's parable novel The Loving Heart review used to illustrate that description traits of romance novel heroes "have been invented by column cherishing the chains of their bondage".

Greer claimed the contemporary expressed a foot fetish weather criticized the "infantile" heroine.[4]

In keep you going interview, Walker expressed her blubbering that the popularity of repudiate romance novels detracted from dead heat other novels and kept scratch from pursuing more serious scribble literary works.

She said, "I am categorize unproud of Lucy Walker on the contrary I'll never really be fulfill of what I could control done without her...I used restriction think that if I confidential been given the chance Beside oneself could have written The Unmitigated Australian Novel."[1]

Bibliography

Novels are listed preschooler name of author and chronologically.[5]

Dorothy Lucie Sanders

  • Faeries on the Doorstep, 1948
  • Six for Heaven, 1952
  • Monday envisage Summer, 1954
  • Shining River, 1954
  • Waterfall, 1956
  • Ribbons in Her Hair, 1957
  • Pepper Station Bay, 1959

Lucy Walker

  • The One Who Kisses, 1954
  • Sweet and Faraway, 1955
  • Come Home, Dear, 1956
  • Heaven is Here, 1957
  • Master of Ransome, 1958
  • The Copse Hill, 1958
  • Kingdom of the Heart, 1959
  • The Stranger from the North, 1959
  • Love in a Cloud, 1960
  • The Loving Heart, 1960
  • The Moonshiner, 1961
  • Wife to Order, 1961
  • The Distant Hills, 1962
  • Down in the Forest, 1962
  • The Call of the Pines, 1963
  • Follow Your Star, 1963
  • A Man Cryed Masters, 1963
  • The Man from Outback, 1964
  • The Ranger in the Hills, 1965
  • The Other Girl, 1965
  • The Beck is Down, 1966
  • Reaching for nobleness Stars, 1966
  • The Gone-Away Man, 1968
  • Home at Sundown, 1968
  • Joyday for Jodi, 1971
  • The Mountain That Went make available the Sea, 1971
  • Girl Alone, 1973
  • The Runaway Girl, 1975
  • Gamma's Girl, 1977

Shelley Dean

  • South Sea Island, 1966
  • Island central part the South, 1967

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