Maggie Ford

Maggie Ford, also known as Elizabeth Lord (born 1928) was a British writer.

Early life and family

Maggie Ford was born Ivy May Lord in London, England in 1928. She became interested in writing when she retired from her full time job and wrote her first novel at the age of sixty six.

Her first husband died in 1954, from a tragic accident at work. She re-married and then started a nursery / garden centre with her second husband.

Career

Her writing career started when she wrote an article for Weekend magazine about a robbery that happened when she was at home with her daughter.

In the 1970s, she started writing romantic stories for various magazines.

In 1994, she published her first novel, Stolen Years.

Her first historical romantic work Company of Rebels, published in 2004, has sold in the United Kingdom and the United States.

In 2006, her next romantic fiction novel, Give Me Tomorrow, was published. Later, Publishers Weekly reviewed the novel.

In 2013, her novel, The Soldier's Bride, was published which was later reviewed by Burnley Express.

In 2014, her novel, Call Nurse Jenny, was published. The novel was reviewed by Blackpool Gazette.

During her writing career, she was a member of Brentwood Writers' Circle, Billericay Arts Group as well as the Romanic Novelist Association.

Bibliography

Lord, Elizabeth (1994). Stolen Years

Lord, Elizabeth (1995). The Angry Heart

Lord, Elizabeth (1996). A Better Life

Lord, Elizabeth (1997). The Turning Tides

Lord, Elizabeth (1998). For All the Bright Promise

Lord, Elizabeth (1999). The Bowmaker Girls

Lord, Elizabeth (2000). Mile End Girl

Lord, Elizabeth (2001). Brenda's Place

Lord, Elizabeth (2001). Butterfly Summers

Lord, Elizabeth. Shadow's of Honour

Lord, Elizabeth (2002). From Bow to Bond Street

Lord, Elizabeth (2002). Autumn Skies

Lord, Elizabeth (2002). Shadow of the Protector

Lord, Elizabeth (2002). Fortunes Daughter

Lord, Elizabeth (2004). Company of Rebels

Lord, Elizabeth (2004). The Flower Girl

Lord, Elizabeth (2006). Give Me Tomorrow

Lord, Elizabeth (2006). To Cast a Stone

Lord, Elizabeth (2006). Winter Wine

Lord, Elizabeth (2007). A Secret Inheritance

Lord, Elizabeth (2009). Julia's Way

Lord, Elizabeth (2010). All That We Are

Lord, Elizabeth (2012). The Chandelier Ballroom

Lord, Elizabeth (2013). Illusions of Happiness

Ford, Maggie (2013). The Soldier's Bride

Ford, Maggie (2014). A Mother's Love

Ford, Maggie (2014). Call Nurse Jenny

Ford, Maggie (2014). A Woman's Place

Ford, Maggie (2015). The Factory Girl

Ford, Maggie (2016). A Girl in Wartime

Ford, Maggie (2016). A Soldier's Girl

Ford, Maggie (2017). An East End Girl

Ford, Maggie (2018). The Fisherman's Girl

Ford, Maggie (2019). Rags to Riches

Ford, Maggie (2020). The Rag and Bone Girl

Ford, Maggie (2021). The Flower Girl

Ford, Maggie (2021). A Brighter Tomorrow

Ford, Maggie (2021). A Fall from Grace

Ford, Maggie (2021). A New Dream

Ford, Maggie (2021). One of the Family

Ford, Maggie (2021). Affairs of the Heart

Ford, Maggie (2021). Echoes of the Past

Ford, Maggie (2022). Mile End Girl

Ford, Maggie (2022). A New Dream

Ford, Maggie (2022). A Brighter Tomorrow

Ford, Maggie (2022). A Fall From Grace

References

1928 births

2020 deaths

20th-century British women writers

21st-century British women writers

Writers from London