Jan Tempest

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Jan Tempest


Born
in Woking, Surrey, The United Kingdom
December 06, 1904

Died
October 26, 1988

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Irene Maude Mossop Swatridge
aka
Irene Mossop, Jan Tempest, Fay Chandos, Theresa Charles, Leslie Lance and Virginia Storm

Irene Maude Mossop was born on 6 December 1904 in Woking, Surrey, England, UK, she was the elder child of Maude Binford Eyre and Robert Mossop, a solicitor, later she had one bothers. She was educated privately.

She started writing very young, and after her father death, she started to publishing as Irene Mossop Girl School's novels. In 1934, she married the recently widowed and ex-RAF officer Charles John Swatridge (1896–1964), they moved to a Devon farm, which her husband ran in a gentlemanly fashion and she continued writing. After her marriage, she started to wrote gothic and romance novels, first as Jan Tempest and late
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Average rating: 3.22 · 50 ratings · 20 reviews · 43 distinct works
House of the Pines

3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1946 — 7 editions
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That Nice Nurse Nevin (LIN)

2.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1963 — 7 editions
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Jubilee Hospital

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1966 — 7 editions
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Because There Is Hope

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1958 — 3 editions
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Ask Me Again

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1955 — 2 editions
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The Madderleys Married

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1963 — 2 editions
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Lyra, My Love (Atlantic Lar...

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1969 — 5 editions
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Way We Used to be

2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1965 — 2 editions
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Short Cut To The Stars

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1949 — 2 editions
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Mistress Of Martinscombe (U...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1973 — 3 editions
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