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Maureen Peters (born in Wales on March 3, 1935 - died on April 8, 2008) was a historical novelist, under her own name and noms de plume such as Veronica Black, Catherine Darby, Belinda Gray, Levanah Lloyd, Judith Rothman, Elizabeth Law, Sharon Whitby. She was born in Caernarvon, North Wales. She was educated at grammar school and attended the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree and a diploma of Education. For some time she taught retarded children, and then took up writing. She has produced many books and contributed short stories to many magazines.〔Sarah Johnson's http://readingthepast.blogspot.ru/2008/05/maureen-peters-1935-2008.html〕 Her novels have often focused on royalty, mostly the War of the Roses and Tudor period, and cover the lives of Elizabeth I of England, Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Mary Tudor, Queen of France, as well as of other famous and less famous historical figures such as Edward II of England, the many Queen consorts of various Kings of England.〔Janet Husband, Jonathan F. Husband ''Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series'' 2009 0838909671 p. 77 "Welsh-born writer Maureen Peters is the author of historical romances and mystery novels under her own name and noms de plume such as Catherine Darby, Belinda gray, Judith Rothman, and Elizabeth Law."〕〔James Vinson, D. L. Kirkpatrick '' Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers'' 1982 p. 545 "Maureen Peters is a young author already showing her real ability and versatility, and the promise of more such novels is rich indeed. Her first novels set a high standard which has been maintained, even surpassed, with each new book."〕 Apart from biographical fiction on royalty (written under her own name), she also wrote Gothic romances, family sagas, Mills & Boon series titles, contemporary mysteries. Peters is also known as a Bronte scholar.〔''Brontë Studies - Journal of the Brontë Society'', Volume 28 2003 p. 92 "Maureen Peters is a prolific writer whom many members of the Bronte Society will remember for her vivacious and frank contribution to a forum on 'faction' which took place in Haworth ..."〕〔Roger Carpenter ''Goodnight to Flamboro': the life and music of William Baines'' 1977 p. 115 That place could not be better defined than to say that he is to English piano music as Emily Bronte is to English poetry. a personal level, which has lately found support from Maureen Peters, is at least as plausible as trying to relate the ...〕 Maureen Peters was married and divorced twice; she has two sons and two daughters. She died on 8th of April, 2008. ==Bibliography== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maureen Peters (novelist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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