Jane Gordon-Cumming is a British

United Kingdom

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 romance

Romance novel

The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late...

 writer of short stories. Jane, who lives in Oxford

Oxford

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, England

England

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 was a founder member of the Oxford Writers' Group, and now is its Secretary. Jane is also Hon Deputy Treasurer of the Romantic Novelists' Association

Romantic Novelists' Association

The Romantic Novelists' Association is a writers' association in the UK. Founded in 1960, mainly through the efforts of Denise Robins , Barbara Cartland , Vivian Stuart , and other authors like Elizabeth Goudge, Netta Muskett, Catherine Cookson, Rosamunde Pilcher and Lucilla Andrews.The RNA runs...

. Is the sister of the also writer Katie Fforde

Katie Fforde

Katie Fforde, née Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming , is a British romance novelist since 1995.She is founder of the Katie Fforde Bursary for writers who have yet to secure a publishing contract...

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Biography

Priscilla Jane Gordon-Cumming was born on 6 February 1950, the daughter of Shirley Barbara Laub and Michael Willoughby Gordon-Cumming. Her sister Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming, is the also writer Katie Fforde

Katie Fforde

Katie Fforde, née Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming , is a British romance novelist since 1995.She is founder of the Katie Fforde Bursary for writers who have yet to secure a publishing contract...

. Her grandfather was Sir William Gordon-Cumming, and she is writing his biography. In 1991, she married Edwin F. Osborn.

Omnibus

• The Haunted Bridge & Other Strange Tales of the Oxford Canal (2009) (Includes: The Haunted Bridge, A Different Way Home, The Great Big Horrible Rat, Flying with the Angels, The New Lord of the Manor, The Death Trap, The Look Keeper, The Living Dead, A Conflict of Personalities and Landscape of Ghosts)

Anthologies in collaboration

• "Education in Action" in The Sixpenny Debt & Other Oxford Stories (2006) (with Lorna Pearson, Angela Cecil-Reid, Linora Lawrence, Gina Claye, Jane Stemp, Mary Cavanagh, Gillian Rathborne, Rosie Orr, Margaret Pelling, Laura King, Sheila Costello, Mary Cavanagh and Margaret Pelling)
• "A Little Persistence" in The Lost College & Other Oxford Stories (2009) (with Jane Stemp, Rosie Orr, Gina Claye, Charles Jones
  Charles Jones
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  , Linora Lawrence, Chris Blount, Sheila Costello, Margaret Pelling, Angela Cecil-Reid, Gilliam Rathbone, Laura King, Mary Cavanagh and Ray Peirson)
• Loves Me, Loves Me No (2009)
• The Festival of International Art and Scholary Culture Oxford in The Bodleian Murders & Other Oxford Stories (2010) (with Alison Hoblyn, Sheila Costello, Margaret Pelling, Chris Blount, Jane Stemp, Ray Peirson, Linora Lawrence, Angela Cecil-Reid, Heather Rosser, Radmila May, Sylvia Vetta, Gina Claye, Mary Cavanagh and Rosie Orr).