Brenda Jagger

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Brenda Jagger


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Yorkshire, England, The United Kingdom
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Brenda Jagger was born on 1936 in Yorkshire, England, UK, which was the setting for many of her books including her famous ‘Barforth’ family saga. The recurring central themes of her work are marriage, womanhood, class, identity, and money in the Victorian Era. Her work has been praised for its compelling plots and moving storylines as well as its exacting emotional descriptions. Her later novel A Song Twice Over won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 1986.

Married, she had three daughters. Worked in Paris and as a probation officer in the north of England. She passed away in 1986.

Average rating: 4.22 · 757 ratings · 61 reviews · 27 distinct worksSimilar authors
Verity (The Barforth Trilog...

4.24 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1980 — 20 editions
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The Sleeping Sword (The Bar...

4.48 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1982 — 18 editions
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Flint and Roses (The Barfor...

4.35 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1981 — 22 editions
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A Winter's Child

4.29 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1984 — 12 editions
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Days Of Grace

4.08 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1984 — 18 editions
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A Song Twice Over

4.02 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1985 — 13 editions
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Distant Choices

3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1986 — 11 editions
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Antonia

3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1978 — 14 editions
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The Clouded Hills aka Verit...

3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Daughter of Aphrodite

3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings2 editions
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Verity Flint and Roses The Sleeping Sword
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