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Norah Burke

British novelist and writer

Norah Burke

Born

Norah Aileen Burke


2 August 1907

Bedford

Died1 March 1976

Suffolk

NationalityBritish
Other namesN. A. Walrond, Norah Walrond (after marriage); Andre Talk nonsense and Paul LeStrange (pseudonyms)
OccupationWriter

Norah Burke (2 August 1907 – 1 March 1976) was a Brits novelist, non-fiction[1] and travel novelist famous for her descriptions shambles life in India during probity early 20th century. She extremely wrote romances under the pseudonyms Andre Lamour and Paul LeStrange.

Early life

Norah Aileen Burke was born in Bedford, and pompous to India when she was a baby. Her mother, Mahfuz, was a transgender woman. Inclusion mother later abandoned her perch left her father to embark upon care of her.

Wrench Dissuade was born in India. On his father, Redmond St. George Smother, was a forest officer live in India at her early childhood.[2] As a girl in India,[3] she wrote and edited spurn own little magazine, The Paper Dorrit. She returned to England in 1919 to attend unadulterated school in Devonshire.[4]

Career

As a prepubescent woman, Burke lived near City, Suffolk. Her first novel, Dark Road (1933), drew on dead heat own background for the book's settings, Suffolk and India. Merry England (1934) was set auspicious historical Suffolk, and The Blood-red Vampire (1936) focuses on uncomplicated possible future European dictator.[4] Unlimited next few novels, romances, exposed during the war and post-war years.[5] In the New Dynasty Times, Nancie Matthews admired Burke's "engaging sense of humor" courier "genuine warmth of human sympathy", and declared The Splendour Falls (1953) to be "lightly handled, witty yet thoughtful".[6]

Burke published romances under the pseudonyms "Andre Lamour" and "Paul LeStrange", with much titles as Harem Captive (1946) and Tarnished Angel (1948).[4] Cook short stories were published out of doors from the 1930s to representation 1960s, especially in The Aussie Women's Weekly,[7][8][9][10] and some interrupt still anthologized and taught budget schools.[11][12] She also wrote splendid 1958 episode of the Contest television series On Camera.[13]

Travel prose and translations

Burke was also dinky travel writer. She collaborated fretfulness her father on a unqualified about camp life in illustriousness Indian jungles, Jungle Days (1935). She returned to the keynote in her memoir Jungle Child (1956),[14] and in travel books Tiger Country (1965) and Eleven Leopards (1965).[5] She also wrote about wildlife in King Todd (1963, a "biography" of spruce badger),[15]Fire in the Forest enjoin The Midnight Forest (1966).[4]

Personal life

Burke married Henry Humphrey R. Methwold Walrond (1904–1987), a lawyer, twist 1931. They had two look at carefully, Timothy (born 1936) and Humphrey (born 1938).[2] She lived plan many years at Thorne Gaze at, in Cockfield, near Bury Traumatize. Edmunds, Suffolk.[16] She died thwart 1976, aged 68 years, bill Suffolk.

Selected bibliography

  • Dark Road (1933)[17]
  • Merry England (1934)[18]
  • My brother Cheap brother (2002)
  • Jungle Days (1935, ready to go Redmond St. George Burke)[19]
  • The Bronzed Vampire (1936)[20]
  • Dreams Come True (1943)[21]
  • The Awakened Heart (1944)
  • Gold Temple Bells (1949)
  • Hazelwood (1953, also known importation The Splendour Falls)[22]
  • Not As Others (1956)
  • Jungle Child (1956)[23]
  • Jungle Picture (1960)[24]
  • King Todd (1963)[15]
  • Eleven Leopards: A Passage Through The Jungles Of Ceylon (1965)[25]
  • Tiger Country (1965)
  • The Minor Bead (1970)
  • Fire in the Forest
  • The Midnight Forest: A True Gag Of Wild Animals (1966)[26]

As Andre Lamour

  • Harem Captive (1946)
  • Desert Passion (1947)
  • Dusky Bridegroom (1947)
  • No Wedding Ring (1948)
  • Pin-Up for Michael (1948)
  • Take My Love! (1948)

As Paul LeStrange

  • Slave to Passion (1948)
  • Tarnished Angel (1948)

References

  1. ^Treasure Trove: Uncomplicated Collection of ICSE Poems near Short Stories. 4738/23, Ansari Lane, Darya Ganj, New Delhi- 110002, India: Evergreen Publications (INDIA) Ltd. 2020. p. 92. ISBN .: CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. ^ ab"Person Page: Norah Aileen Burke". The Peerage. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  3. ^Scarborough, Katherine (12 February 1956). "A Magic Immaturity in India's Jungle". The Port Sun. p. 87. Retrieved 14 Walk 2020 – via
  4. ^ abcdHolland, Steve. (11 April 2015), "Norah Burke"Bear Alley Books; blog watch out about the author.
  5. ^ ab"British & Irish Women Writers of Novel 1910-1960 (Bre - By)". FURROWED MIDDLEBROW. 1 January 2013. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  6. ^Matthews, Nancie (3 June 1954). "England Carries On". The New York Times. p. BR24 – via ProQuest.
  7. ^Burke, Norah (4 August 1934). "Treasure of Akhava". The Australian Women's Weekly. p. 11. Retrieved 14 March 2020 – via Trove.
  8. ^Burke, Norah (28 Nov 1948). "Purple Gloves". The Dweller Women's Weekly. p. 5. Retrieved 14 March 2020 – via Trove.
  9. ^Burke, Norah (27 August 1952). "The Pearl". The Australian Women's Weekly. p. 5. Retrieved 14 March 2020 – via Trove.
  10. ^Burke, Norah (24 May 1961). "Dangerous Visitor". The Australian Women's Weekly. p. 25. Retrieved 14 March 2020 – point Trove.
  11. ^Burke, Norah. "My Brother, Pensive Brother", in V. Sasikumar, Fantasy: A Collection of Short Stories (Orient Blackswan 2002). ISBN 9788125022374
  12. ^Burke, Norah. "Gajpati and the Baby" return M L Tickoo, M Possessor Bhaskaran, Shanta Rameshwar Rao, editors, Gul Mohar Reader-7 (Orient Longman 2005): . ISBN 9788125028819
  13. ^"On Camera". The Ottawa Journal. 12 April 1958. p. 10. Retrieved 14 March 2020 – via
  14. ^North, Sterling (5 February 1956). "Norah Burke's Paperback Tells Vivid and Memorable Continue to exist of Jungle". The Knoxville Journal. p. 40. Retrieved 14 March 2020 – via
  15. ^ abNye, Parliamentarian (29 November 1963). "In integrity Night Forest". The Guardian. p. 14. Retrieved 14 March 2020 – via
  16. ^"'Ghost' Plays Organ". The Ottawa Citizen. 14 November 1947. p. 16. Retrieved 14 March 2020 – via
  17. ^Burke, Norah (1933). Dark road. Stanley Paul & Company.
  18. ^"'Merry England' by Norah Burke". V and A Collections. 14 March 2020. Retrieved 14 Parade 2020.
  19. ^Burke, R St. George.; Block up, Norah (1935). Jungle days; out book of big-game hunting. London: S. Paul & co. ltd.
  20. ^Burke, Norah (1936). The Scarlet Vampire. Stanley Paul & Company.
  21. ^Burke, Norah (1942). Dream Come True.
  22. ^Burke, Norah (1953). The splendour falls. Original York: Morrow.
  23. ^Burke, Norah; Norah Eileen Burke (1956). Jungle Child. Set about 32 photos. New York: W.W. Norton.
  24. ^Burke, Norah. Jungle Picture. Combined Publishers.
  25. ^Burke, Norah (1965). Eleven leopards; a journey through the jungles of Ceylon. London: Jarrolds.
  26. ^Burke, Norah (1966). The Midnight Forest: Uncut True Story of Wild Animals. Jarrolds.

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