Evelyn Anthony: "Den skjulte sannhet"

Evelyn Anthony: "Den skjulte sannhet"

Hjemmets Bokforlag, 1981

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Originalens tittel: "The Grave of Truth", 1979

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Evelyn Anthony (born 3 July 1928, London) is the pen name of Evelyn Ward-Thomas (Evelyn Bridgett Patricia Ward-Thomas), a British female writer.

In her youth during the Second World War she was educated largely at home, rather than at school. While she was evacuated to the West Country, her father, Henry Christian Stephens, re-entered the Royal Navy to develop his Dome Trainer, one of the first inventions to cover anti-aircraft gunnery training, later exported all over the world. The new museum in Norfolk to re-create his invention opened on 19 July 2014 and the Journal of her father has been donated to the Imperial War Museum. https://langhamdome.org/

She started writing in 1949, following her marriage. Her pen name comes from Evelyn as a man's profile, as women were often not published during the years after the Second World War, and Saint Anthony, the Catholic patron of Lost Causes. First writing short stories for periodicals, she gained fame and success with her well-researched historical novels, being especially noted for her original treatment of Anne Boleyn - a historical character dealt with by numerous other writers. Two of them became US Literary Guild Choices. Her historical novels "Far Flies The Eagle" and "Valentina" were both set during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. The later novels had a theme of espionage.

Later, Anthony switched to writing contemporary thrillers and spy novels, featuring strong female leads such as Davina Graham (Head of British spy services) with well-developed characterisation of protagonists and twist endings, which her readers came to expect. Her 1971 The Tamarind Seed was adapted for film in 1974, starring Julie Andrews as Judith Farrow, a British Home Office functionary and Omar Sharif as Feodor, a Soviet air attaché- lovers involved in Cold War intrigue.[3] She adapted well to the end of the Cold War and continued writing thrillers set in the post-1990 reality.

Her books were translated into nineteen languages and frequently compared to the writings of Ted Allbeury, Colin Forbes and Clare Francis.

In 1994, in her own name of Evelyn Bridgett Patricia Ward-Thomas, she was appointed the first female High Sheriff of Essex serving until 1995.

She was married to Michael Ward-Thomas, former director of a mining company, who died in 2004. They had six children - four sons and two daughters. A daughter, Kitty, died in 1995. There are fourteen grandchildren spread around the globe, the latest in Australia in early 2008.

She lives in a sixteenth-century manor in Essex, Horham Hall. Earlier, they lived in Kildare in Ireland. Her hobbies are reported to be her dogs, socialising, gardening and listening to classical music.

Brought up before the wearing of fur became controversial, Evelyn Anthony is fond of wearing a huge red fox fur hat, a present which her husband obtained during a business trip in Russia.

Bibliography

The following bibliography includes both historical novels and thrillers.

1953 : Rebel Princess (later reissued as Imperial Highness)

1954 : Curse Not the King

1955 : Far Flies The Eagle

1957 : Anne Boleyn

1958 : Victoria and Albert

1960 : Elizabeth

1960 : All the Queen's Men

1961 : Charles the King

1963 : Clandara

1964 : The French Bride

1964 : The Heiress

1966 : Valentina

1967 : The Rendezvous

1969 : The Legend

1970 : The Assassin

1971 : The Tamarind Seed

1972 : The Poellenberg Inheritance

1973 : The Occupying Power aka Stranger at the Gates

1974 : The Malaspiga Exit

1975 : The Persian Ransom

1977 : The Silver Falcon

1978 : The Return

1979 : The Grave of Truth

1980 : The Defector

1981 : The Avenue of the Dead

1982 : Albatross

1983 : The Company of Saints

1985 : Voices in the Wind

1987 : No Enemy But Time

1988 : The House of Vandekar

1989 : The Scarlet Thread

1991 : The Relic

1992 : The Doll's House

1994 : Exposure

1994 : The Heiress

1995 : Bloodstones

2002 : A Dubious Legacy

2002 : Codeword Janus

2003 : Sleeping with the Enemy

2004 : Betrayal

2004 : No Resistance

2005 : Mind Games

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