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Essie Summers

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Born: July 23 1912

Died: 2626 08 19981998

Essie Summers was a New Zealand author who wrote so vividly of the people and landscape of her native country that she was offered The Order Of the British Empire for her contributions to New Zealand tourism.

Ethel Snelson Summers was born on on July 24, 1912 to a newly-emigrated couple, Ethel Snelson and Edwin Summers, situated in Bordesley Street in Christchurch, Essie was always proud of both her British heritage and her New Zealand citizenship. Both her parents were exceptional storytellers, and this, combined with her early introduction to the Anne of Green Gables stories, engendered in her a life-long fascination with the craft of writing and the colorful legacy of pioneers everywhere.

Leaving school at 14 when her father's butcher shop experienced financial difficulties, she worked for a number of years in draper's shops and later turned her experiences to good use in writing the romantic novels for which she became famous.

She met her husband-to-be William Flett when she was only 13 years old, but it was 13 years before she consented to marry him. A minister's wife and the mother of two, William and Elizabeth, she still found many opportunities to pen short stories, poetry and newspaper columns before embarking on her first novel, which sold to the firm of Mills & Boon in 1956.

Summers died in Taradale, Hawkes Bay on the August 27, 1998.

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Essie Summers

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Books from Essie Summers

Beyond the Foothills

Goblin Hill

One More River To Cross

The House on Gregor's Brae

South Island Stowaway

The Master of Tawhai

Moon Over the Alps

Summer in December

Sweet Are the Ways

No Roses in June

Sweet Are the Ways: Commemorative Edition (Collected Works of Essie Summers Book 5)

Mountain For Luenda

My Lady of the Fuchsias (Collected Works of Essie Summers Book 7)

Caleb's Kingdom

The Other Miss Donne / The Thistle And The Rose / Beyond The Foothills

Golden Harlequin Library V: Ship's Surgeon, Lake of Shadows, Moon Over the Alps

Trumpets on the Wind: Previously published as The Smoke and the Fire (Collected Works of Essie Summers Book 14)

The Enchanted Island / Kindled Fire / Rising Star

Not by Appointment (Collected Works of Essie Summers Book 38)

HARLEQUIN OMNIBUS: #1 BRIDE IN FLIGHT, POSTCRIPT TO YESTERDAY, MEET ON MY GROUND