My Lord Monleigh View Online By Jan Cox Speas
| Title | : | My Lord Monleigh |
| Author | : | Jan Cox Speas |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 309 pages |
| ISBN | : |
Scotland was a land divided The rightful Stuart had been driven into exile in France, his country ruled by the dour Presbyterians who had ridden into power on the coattails of Oliver Cromwell s rise to power in England All who opposed them were rebels and outlaws,to be hunted down and branded as traitors And the man with the highest price on his head was Monleigh.Anne L Scotland was a land divided The rightful Stuart had been driven into exile in France, his country ruled by the dour Presbyterians who had ridden into power on the coattails of Oliver Cromwell s rise to power in England All who opposed them were rebels and outlaws,to be hunted down and branded as traitors And the man with the highest price on his head was Monleigh.Anne Lindsay met him first on the windswept moors, though when first she saw him she had no idea who he might be She knew only that he was handsome and that he did something to her heart, that here was the one man who could bring warmth and happiness into a life seemingly forever chilled by the bleakness of her early childhood
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From here Jan Cox Speas was born November 5, 1925 in Raleigh, North Carolina She attended the Women s College of the University of North Carolina women could not go to UNC Chapel Hill until junior year from1942 46, where she studied creative writing under Hiram Hayden UNC had a special association with Jan s family her mother, Francis Howard Cox, who had studied as a high schooler at home in From here Jan Cox Speas was born November 5, 1925 in Raleigh, North Carolina She attended the Women s College of the University of North Carolina women could not go to UNC Chapel Hill until junior year from1942 46, where she studied creative writing under Hiram Hayden UNC had a special association with Jan s family her mother, Francis Howard Cox, who had studied as a high schooler at home in tiny Richlands, NC, was the first in the family to come to the college, taking the train in 1914 to Greensboro to study to be a teacher, and years later Jan s daughter, Cindy, attended UNC Chapel Hill in the first year freshmen women were allowed to enroll.Near the end of the war Jan met and married John Speas on his return from the European theater Their first child, Cindy, was born in 1948, right after John graduated from Colorado State University.After several years of traveling, the Speas family settled back in Greensboro in 1954 to be near Jan s mother, who suffered from chronic ill health During that time Jan wrote multiple short stories for the widely read slick magazine market, including The Post, Ladies Home Journal, McCall s, Cosmopolitan, and others.Cindy Speas recalls, Mom learned to write from reading and that s what we did as a family every night Jan s favorite authors included Daphne DuMaurier, Mary Stewart, Nevil Shute, Elswyth Thane, Inglis Fletcher, Helen MacInnis, Elisabeth Ogilvie, Elizabeth Goudge, Dorothy Sayer and Josephine Tey But the most fun Mom and I had, Cindy confesses, was with Georgette Heyer s Regency romances we collected all of the original hardbacks Jan s own first novel, Bride of the McHugh, was published the same month her second child, Greg, was born, in 1954 The Indiana firm Bobbs Merrill, where her UNC mentor Hiram Hayden was an editor, was the publisher She published two historical novels, My Lord Monleigh in 1956, and My Love, My Enemy in 1961, before going back to graduate school in 1962, where she received her Master of Fine Arts under southern poet Randall Jarrell at UNC Greensboro, writing The Growing Season as her thesis The Growing Season, published in 1963, was the first thesis accepted in non standard thesis form for the university library, and is still on their shelves as the actual published book UNC Greensboro also holds the original manuscript of Bride of the MacHugh Jan went on to teach English and creative writing as well as American literature and poetry at Guilford College in Greensboro Her favorite poets were T.S Elliott and Robert Frost Sadly, she died of a heart attack in late October 1971 while on the west coast visiting her brother who was dying from a brain tumor, a double tragedy for their mother None of us expected it, says Cindy It was a huge personal loss, but also a loss to all her fans At the time of her death, Jan was working on a novel that remains unfinished 
Bride of the MacHugh
My Love, My Enemy
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Scotland was a land divided The rightful Stuart had been driven into exile in France, his country ruled by the dour Presbyterians who had ridden into
309 pagesJan Cox Speas
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