Frances Murray

Rosemary Frances Sutherland was born on 10 February 1928 in Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK, near Glasgow. She was educated at the University of Glasgow (1945-1947), in 1965 obtained a M.A. at University of St. Andrews and in 1966 a diploma in education. She worked as a teacher of History at Perth Academy in Scotland from 1966 to 1972. Since 1976, as principal teacher of history, at Guernsey Ladies' College in St. Peter Port. Rosemary Booth wrote her first Children's novel in 1966 under the pseudonym of Frances Murray. In 1976, her novel The Burning Lamp won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

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