![]() ![]() In 1993 she won the Romantic Novelists' Association Romantic Novel of the Year Award with Emily, the third volume of her Kirov Saga, a trilogy set in nineteenth century Russia. The series was originally intended to comprise twelve volumes, but it has proved so popular that it has now been extended to thirty-four. The birth of the MORLAND DYNASTY series enabled Cynthia Harrod-Eagles to become a full-time writer in 1979. She wrote her first novel while at university and in 1972 won the Young Writers' Award with The Waiting Game. ![]() ![]() She had a variety of jobs in the commercial world, starting as a junior cashier at Woolworth's and working her way down to Pensions Officer at the BBC. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (aka Emma Woodhouse, Elizabeth Bennett)Ĭynthia Harrod-Eagles was born on 13 August 1948 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, where was educated at Burlington School, a girls' charity school founded in 1699, and at the University of Edinburgh and University College London, where she studied English, history and philosophy. ![]()
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