"Series, and Deborah Kerr was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Special. Barbara Taylor-Bradford's sequel, ""Hold the Dream"", was produced as an eponymous miniseries in 1986, again starring Deborah Kerr and Jenny Seagrove, though Seagrove now played the role of Paula. A second sequel, ""To Be the Best"", was adapted in 1992 and starred Lindsay Wagner as Paula. A Woman of Substance (miniseries) A Woman of Substance is a British-American three-part television drama miniseries, produced in 1984. It is based on the 1979 novel ""A Woman of Substance"" by the author Barbara Taylor Bradford. In 1970,"
"Barbara Taylor Bradford Barbara Taylor Bradford (born 10 May 1933) is a best-selling British-American novelist. Her debut novel, ""A Woman of Substance"", was published in 1979 and has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. It ranks as one of the top-ten bestselling novels of all-time. To date, she has written 35 novels — all bestsellers on both sides of the Atlantic. Barbara Taylor was born in Leeds, in Yorkshire, England to Freda and Winston Taylor. Before Taylor Bradford's birth, her parents had had a son, Vivian, who died of meningitis. She would later describe her mother as having ""put all"
"the rumours in a 2011 interview, tracing the shoes rumour to a joke, and the heated lake to the fact that the previous owners of the house had installed it. Her first novel, ""A Woman of Substance"", became an enduring best-seller and according to Reuters, it ranks as one of the top-ten best-selling novels of all time. ""A Woman Of Substance"" has been followed by 28 others – all best-sellers on both sides of the Atlantic. Bradford's books have sold more than 92 million copies worldwide in more than 90 countries and 40 languages. Ten of her books have been"
"""Hold The Dream""; ""To Be The Best""; ""Act of Will"" and ""Voice of the Heart"". A Woman Of Substance, Hold The Dream and To Be The Best were reissued on DVD by Acorn Media in the US in May 2012. ""Act Of Will"" and ""Voice Of The Heart"" remain available on DVD in the US through Infinity Video. The House of Falconer Series Barbara Taylor Bradford Barbara Taylor Bradford (born 10 May 1933) is a best-selling British-American novelist. Her debut novel, ""A Woman of Substance"", was published in 1979 and has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. It ranks as"
"Jacqueline Susann Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 – September 21, 1974) was an American writer and actress. Her first novel, ""Valley of the Dolls"" (1966), is one of the best-selling books in publishing history. With her two subsequent works, ""The Love Machine"" (1969) and ""Once Is Not Enough"" (1973), Susann became the first author to have three consecutive #1 novels on ""The New York Times"" Best Seller List. Jacqueline Susann was born on August 20, 1918, in Philadelphia, a single daughter to a Jewish couple: Robert Susan (1887–1957), a portrait painter, and Rose Jans (1892–1981), a public schoolteacher. As a"
"A Good Woman (novel) A Good Woman is a novel by Danielle Steel, published by Random House in October 2008. The book is Steel's seventy-sixth best selling novel. Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege in the glamorous New York society set living on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. In April 1912, everything changed when the Titanic sank, changing her world forever. Annabelle then pours herself into volunteer work, nursing the poor, igniting a passion for medicine that would shape the course of her life. More grief is around the corner with her first love and"
"Christopher wrote his first novel, ""A Density of Souls"", upon returning home to New Orleans during her recuperation. Published the following year, ""Souls"" generated buzz in the gay and mainstream press, and became a ""New York Times"" Best Seller. Early in his career, Rice distinguished himself by saying that unlike his famous mother, he did not write horror novels, instead considering his books to be thrillers. However, as years went by, Rice became more comfortable experimenting in different genres, exploring his own version of the supernatural with works such as ""The Heavens Rise"" and ""The Vines"". Both of these novels"
"Valley of the Dolls Valley of the Dolls is the first novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann. Published in 1966, the book was the biggest selling novel of its year. To date, it has sold more than 31 million copies, making it one of the best-selling works in publishing history. The novel tells the story of three young women who become fast friends in the turbulent post-war worlds of Broadway and Hollywood: Anne Welles, a reserved New England beauty who sees New York as the romantic city of her dreams; Neely O'Hara, an ebullient vaudevillian with a talent she doesn't"
"which was their former home is now a museum in their honour. Bram Stoker authored ""Dracula"" while living in Whitby and it includes several elements of local folklore including the beaching of the Russian ship ""Dmitri"", which became the basis of Demeter in the book. The novelist tradition in Yorkshire continued into the 20th century, with authors such as J. B. Priestley, Alan Bennett, Stan Barstow, Dame Margaret Drabble, A S Byatt, and Barbara Taylor Bradford being prominent examples. Taylor Bradford is noted for ""A Woman of Substance"" which was one of the top-ten best selling novels in history. Another"
"part of her life in Cambridge, Massachusetts and died in Boston. She had three children. Katya Alpert Gilden Katya Alpert Gilden (March 9, 1914 – May 5, 1991) was an American best-selling novelist who wrote with her husband Bert Gilden under the pen-name ""K.B. Gilden"". The couple produced two major novels, ""Hurry Sundown"" (1964), which was made into an Otto Preminger film in 1967, and ""Between the Hills and the Sea"" (1971), published four months after Bert's death. Gilden was born in Bangor, Maine and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1935. While an undergraduate, she was the first woman to"
"paper. After three months of researching, plotting, and writing, she sold her first book. She began publishing for Dell Publishing Company (Candlelight Ecstasy Romance) as Billie Douglass, for Silhouette Books (S. Intimate Moments and S. Desire) as Billie Douglass, and for Harlequin Enterprises as Barbara Delinsky. Now, she only uses her married name Barbara Delinsky, and some of her novels published under the other pseudonyms, are being published under this name. Since then, over 30 million copies of her books are in print, and they have been published in 25 languages. One of her novels, ""A Woman's Place"", was made"
"Emma Harte Emma Harte is the protagonist of Barbara Taylor Bradford's 1979 novel ""A Woman of Substance"". In the 1984 TV mini-series, the character was played by actresses Deborah Kerr and Jenny Seagrove. Emma Harte's story begins as a maid at Fairley Hall when she is 14 years old. She falls in love with her master's son, Edwin Fairley. She becomes pregnant and he ""lets her down"" by refusing to marry her. She flees to Leeds at 15, so as not to disgrace her father and brothers. In Leeds, she seeks out her friend Blackie O'Neil. Her daughter Edwina is"
"called ""See How Beautiful I Am: The Return of Jackie Susann"", during which a dying Susann discusses her life and career. The show was performed as part of the Edinburgh Festival in 2001 as well as the New York International Fringe Festival in 2008. Jacqueline Susann Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 – September 21, 1974) was an American writer and actress. Her first novel, ""Valley of the Dolls"" (1966), is one of the best-selling books in publishing history. With her two subsequent works, ""The Love Machine"" (1969) and ""Once Is Not Enough"" (1973), Susann became the first author to have"
"first novel, ""Emmeline"" (1788), was a success, selling 1500 copies within months. She wrote nine more novels in the next ten years: ""Ethelinde"" (1789), ""Celestina"" (1791), ""Desmond"" (1792), ""The Old Manor House"" (1793), ""The Wanderings of Warwick"" (1794), ""The Banished Man"" (1794), ""Montalbert"" (1795), ""Marchmont"" (1796), and ""The Young Philosopher"" (1798). Smith began her career as a novelist during the 1780s at a time when women's fiction was expected to focus on romance and to foreground ""a chaste and flawless heroine subjected to repeated melodramatic distresses until reinstated in society by the virtuous hero"". Although Smith's novels employed this structure,"
"second novel, Stratton-Porter decided to combine nature and romance. ""Freckles"" (1904), which was published by Doubleday, Page and Company, became a bestseller. The book's popularity among readers helped to launch her career as a successful novelist, despite its lackluster reviews from critics. ""A Girl of the Limberlost"" (1909), which was highly successful and her best-known work, brought her worldwide recognition. Its central character, Elnora Comstock, a lonely, poverty-stricken girl living on a farm in Adams County, goes to the Limberlost Swamp to escape from her troubles and earns money to pay for her education by collecting and selling moth specimens."
"Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed when ""The Mysterious Affair at Styles"", featuring Hercule Poirot, was published in 1920. During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels. ""Guinness World Records"" lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly"
"born when Emma is 16. After more than a year of scrimping, saving, working day and night and creating a home business on the side, she finally saves enough to open her own shop. It is the beginning of an empire so vast she eventually buys everything the Fairleys own. There are seven books written by Barbara Taylor Bradford in the Emma Harte series: Emma Harte Emma Harte is the protagonist of Barbara Taylor Bradford's 1979 novel ""A Woman of Substance"". In the 1984 TV mini-series, the character was played by actresses Deborah Kerr and Jenny Seagrove. Emma Harte's story"
"exclusively to literature. His first novel, ""A man and a woman"", sold more than 100,000 copies in six months. His work was well received in England, and he was one of the first American authors to sell well there. His most famous work, ""The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Caveman"", was followed by a story by Jack London, ""Before Adam"", which was so similar to Waterloo's novel that Waterloo accused London of plagiarism. London denied this, explaining that his story was in the nature of a commentary on Waterloo's work. Stanley Waterloo Stanley Waterloo (1846-1913)"
"of Enterprise"" (1821), and ""Botanical Rambles"" (1822), were successful, and remained in print for several editions. Two days after the birth of Daniel Frederick Wilson (1829–1918), their first child, Sarah Atkins married Daniel Wilson, the vicar of Islington, on 14 December 1829. Atkins changed her first name to Lucy upon being baptized for her marriage to a clergyman. Her books, therefore, are attributed to various combinations of her names, including Sarah Atkins, Lucy Wilson, and Sarah Atkins Wilson. Additionally, as was common at the time, many of her books were published under pseudonyms, such as 'A Lady,' or as the"
"began publishing in the 1920s, and novelists Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), E. M. Forster (1879–1970) (""A Passage to India"", 1924), Evelyn Waugh (1903–66), P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) (who was not a modernist) and D. H. Lawrence. Lawrence's ""Lady Chatterley's Lover"" was published privately in Florence in 1928, though the unexpurgated version was not published in Britain until 1959. Woolf was an influential feminist, and a major stylistic innovator associated with the stream-of-consciousness technique in novels like ""Mrs Dalloway"" (1925) and ""To the Lighthouse"" (1927). Her 1929 essay ""A Room of One's Own"" contains her famous dictum ""A woman must have money"
"Stella Gibbons Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, ""Cold Comfort Farm"" (1932) which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary works—which included a sequel to ""Cold Comfort Farm""—achieved the same critical or popular success. Much of her work was long out of print before a modest revival in the 21st century. The daughter of a London doctor, Gibbons had a turbulent and often"
"writings were characterized by a high moral tone. Her first story, written when she was 20 years old, was a novel entitled ""Her Bright Future,"" drawn largely from life. Some 30,000 copies were sold. This was followed by a ""A Lucky Mishap"" and ""Mismated,"" which reached a sale of about 10,000 copies. ""A Woman's Triumph,"" and a serial first published in one of the Chicago dailies as ""Tragedies of Prairie Life,"" and subsequently published in book form as a ""A Dark Secret"" followed. She wrote many short stories and sketches, and did considerable editorial work. ""Her Bright Future"" was a"
"the other novels, on a print-on-demand basis. Publisher information relates to first publication only. Many of the books have been reissued, usually by different publishers. Notes Citations Sources Stella Gibbons Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, ""Cold Comfort Farm"" (1932) which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary works—which included a sequel to ""Cold Comfort Farm""—achieved the same critical or popular success. Much"
"her writing. Regardless of their genre, however, her books tend to be fast-paced and feature strong, loyal, compassionate, intelligent female characters. McNaught was one of the first romance authors to receive a multimillion-dollar contract and have her novels published in hardcover, better positioning them for review by major publications. She reached the New York Times Bestseller List for the first time in 1988, and all of her subsequent books have also placed on the NYT Bestseller List. After one of her novels placed on the New York Times Best Seller List for the first time, McNaught asked her publisher to"
"A Daughter of the Snows A Daughter of the Snows (1902) is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, ""a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie"" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous; and Vance Corliss, a Yale-trained mining engineer. The novel is noteworthy for its strong and self-reliant heroine, one of many who would people his"
"Janet Morris Janet Ellen Morris (born May 25, 1946) is an American author of fiction and nonfiction, best known for her fantasy and science fiction and her authorship of a non-lethal weapons concept for the U.S. military. Janet Morris began writing in 1976 and has since published more than 40 novels, many co-authored with her husband Chris Morris or others. Her debut novel, written as Janet E. Morris, was ""High Couch of Silistra"", the first in a quartet of character-driven novels with a female protagonist. According to original publisher Bantam Books, the Silistra quartet had over four million copies in"
"characters wiser and more capable than the male ones. Her first novel, ""Zoe: the History of Two Lives"" (1845), concerns a girl who falls in love with a Catholic priest, causing him to lapse from his faith. The story carries a strong theme of doubt, not only about religious belief, but also about marriage as a woman's prime destiny. It was initially rejected by the publisher, but later accepted after an intervention by Thomas Carlyle. It was an immediate success, and praised by the ""Manchester Examiner"" as ""striking"" and ""clever"", although other reviews were mixed. As a novel of scepticism,"
"parents, she traveled to the continent and studied in Germany and Switzerland. She wrote her first novel, ""Pantomime"", in 1914 at the age of 24. Her first critical success came with ""Twos and Threes"" in 1916. Her most popular books were the series known by the name of the first, ""The Matriarch"". This was first published as ""Tents of Israel"" in 1924. The others in the series are ""A Deputy Was King"" (1926), ""Mosaic"" (1930), ""Shining and Free"" (1935) and ""The Young Matriarch"" (1942). ""The Matriarch"" series revolved around the Rakonitz and Czelovar families and were based on her own"
"of 59. During the interwar period, Woolf was an important part of London's literary and artistic society. She published her first novel, ""The Voyage Out"", in 1915, through her half-brother's publishing house, Gerald Duckworth and Company. Her best-known works include the novels ""Mrs Dalloway"" (1925), ""To the Lighthouse"" (1927) and """" (1928). She is also known for her essays, including ""A Room of One's Own"" (1929), in which she wrote the much-quoted dictum, ""A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."" Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s"
"years, she had begun writing novels. In 1929, she published her first novel, ""The Patient in Room 18"", which introduced her series character Nurse Sarah Keate and her boyfriend Detective Lance O'Leary. A second novel, ""While the Patient Slept"", also featuring Keate, received the $5000 Scotland Yard Prize in 1931. Four years later, Eberhart's alma mater presented her with an honorary doctorate. By the end of the 1930s, Eberhart had become the leading female crime novelist in the United States and was one of the highest-paid female crime novelists in the world, next to Agatha Christie. She was one of"
"One for the Money (novel) One for the Money is the first novel by Janet Evanovich featuring the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. It was published in 1994 in the United States and in 1995 in Great Britain. Like its successors, ""Two for the Dough"" and ""Three To Get Deadly"", ""One for the Money"" is a long-time best-seller, appearing for 75 consecutive weeks on the ""USA Today"" list of 150 best-selling novels, peaking at number 13. Before this novel, Evanovich wrote 11 category romance novels. She then ""ran out of sexual positions and decided to move into the mystery genre."" Before"
"in writing her first novel, ""Brown Girl, Brownstones"". In 1950 she married psychologist Kenneth Marshall; they divorced in 1963. In the 1970s she married Nourry Menard, a Haitian businessman. Early in her career, she wrote poetry, but later returned to prose, her novel ""Brown Girl, Brownstones"" being published in 1959. ""Brown Girl, Brownstones"" tells the story of Selina Boyce, a girl growing up in a small black immigrant community. Selina is caught between her mother, who wants to conform to the ideals of her new home and make the American dream come true, and her father, who longs to go"
"with ""Gods' Man"" in 1929. Ward's success brought about an American publication of ""Destiny"" in 1930 which sold well. The book has impressed critics and has become one of the best-known wordless novels. The book follows an unnamed woman in a German city in the early 20th century who lives a life of poverty and misfortune. She is the constant victim of her society—especially the men, such as her drunken, abusive father, and the traveling salesman who gets her pregnant. She is imprisoned for the murder of her unwanted child, and upon release turns to life as a prostitute. The"