She came up with the name Presents over lunch with Alan Boon (the Boon of Mills and Boon), and was the launch author for the long-running series.In May 1980, Hampson was the launch author for another romance series. Degree in hand, she turned her attention to her number two goal, and sold her first novel, Eternal Summer, not long after she mailed her manuscript. She was chosen to be a launch author because she, along with Violet Winspear and Anne Mather were the most popular and prolific of Harlequin's authors.Īnne Hampson turned to writing after graduating from college as part of a trial program for "older women". Harlequin Presents books were more sensual than the previous line, Harlequin Romance, under which she had been published. But, when Manchester University decided to trial older women she applied and she graduated.In 1973, she became a launch author for the new Harlequin Presents line of category romance novels. She left work to marry.Later, when her marriage broke up, she had to return to work and to live in a tiny caravan. She had to begin to make blouses Marks & Spencer's blouses. She has published her autobiography.Īnne Hampson dreamed to teach and to write when was six, but due to the depression after World War II, she had to leave study at 14. Although she retired in 1998, in 2005 she published two romance and a crime novels. She also has published as Jane Wilby historical romance novels. November 28 in England) was a popular British writer of over 125 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1969 to 1998.
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