Anne Melville

Anne Melville is the pseudonym of Margaret Potter, née Margaret Newman. She was born in 1926 in Middlesex. She was educated at Harrow County School for girls and gained a BA and MA from St. Hugh's College, Oxford. Before writing, she worked a variety of jobs including teaching in Egypt, editing a children's magazine in London, and advising the Citizen's Advice Bureau in Twickenham. She published her first novel as Margaret Newman, a mystery novel entitled Murder to Music. Newman continued...See more

Anne Melville is the pseudonym of Margaret Potter, née Margaret Newman. She was born in 1926 in Middlesex. She was educated at Harrow County School for girls and gained a BA and MA from St. Hugh's College, Oxford. Before writing, she worked a variety of jobs including teaching in Egypt, editing a children's magazine in London, and advising the Citizen's Advice Bureau in Twickenham. She published her first novel as Margaret Newman, a mystery novel entitled Murder to Music. Newman continued publishing novels until her death in 1998, under a variety of pseudonyms and encompassing multiple genres. As Anne Melville, she focused on historical novels, including the epic wartime saga Debutante. Over the course of her career she published fifty-five novels in romance, mystery, historical fiction and children's. See less