Enid Joyce Owen Dingwell, née Starr, was born on 1908 in Ryde, New South Wales, Australia. She wrote as Joyce Dingwell and Kate Starr at 80 romance novels at Mills & Boon from 1931 to 1986. She was the first Austalian writer, who lives in Australia, published at Mills & Boon. Her novel The House in the Timberwood (1959), had been made into a motion picture: The Winds of Jarrah (1983). Her work was particularly notable for its use of the Australian land, culture, and people. She passed away on 2 August 1997 in Kincumber, New South Wales.
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Fiction, Fiction in English, romance, Fiction, general, Large type books, Fiction, general romance, Fiction, romance, erotica, Fiction, westerns, Orphans, Plantations, Ranches, Romance, Sugarcane industry, contemporaryID Numbers
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- Enid Joyce Owen Starr Dingwell
- Joyce Dingwell
- Kate Starr
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