She also included the expedition of the Donner Party in her book Road to Revelation, also known by the title of Winter Harvest. She included a Nativity scene, or at least a version of it, in How Far to Bethlehem?. Norah has also not shied away from putting sensitive topics into her stories, either. The stories in East Anglia show concern that the impoverished in society do not have the ability to make their conditions better and mirrors the social reform movement that became fashionable in post-war Britain. The fictional creation of a place in England is similar to what Thomas Hardy did in Wessex. They are either biographical stories written about queens or stories that are set in the town of Baildon in East Anglia, a fictional town based on Bury St. Historical novels written by this author can usually be sorted into two different categories. Despite this, there are some elements of her own personal style of writing that show up in the murder mystery stories. This was the wish of the author because she didn’t want her historical fiction readers to get one of her mystery novels while expecting the historical fiction stories that she wrote under her Norah Lofts name. Her novels written in the murder mystery genre were released using the pen name of Peter Curtis. The trilogy was well researched and goes over five plus centuries of history in Suffolk, beginning with the 14th century life of a serf and concluding in the 1950s time period. Some of her books such as the Suffolk trilogy cover a specific house’s history along with the residents that lived there. Some of them were in the historical fiction genre, but many were nonfiction too. Edmunds as a town councillor for five years from 1957 to 1962.ĭuring her career as an author, she composed over fifty novels. His name was Robert Jorisch and he was a technical consultant that worked for the British Sugar Corporation at the sugar beet factory in town. Norah eventually moved on and got married to her second husband in 1949. Later she would get married to Geoffrey Lofts in 1931. She attended Norwich Training College and received her teaching diploma in 1925. Norah attended Guildhall Feoffment Girls School in town and then County Grammar School for Girls. She would spend her childhood in Bury St. Her parents were Ethel Garner and Isaac Robinson. Norah was born Augin Shipdham, Norfolk, in the United Kingdom. She is known for writing under the pen names also of Peter Curtis and Juliet Astley. In the twentieth century, she was a best selling writer. Norah Lofts was a British author of fiction. Rupert Hatton's Story / Rupert Hatton's Tales

The Maude Reed Tale / Story of Maude Reed The Witches / The Little Wax Doll / The Devil's Own (As: Peter Curtis) Michael and All Angels / The Golden FleeceĪfternoon ofan Autocrat / The Devil in Clevely / The Deadly Gift Bride of Moat House / Dead March in Three Keys / No Question of Murder (As:Peter Curtis)

The House at Sunset by Norah Lofts