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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1974
  • Latest Book:
    August 2011
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About the Author

Marguerite Jackson was born on 1 May 1916 in Durham, England, UK, daughter of Hannah, and John Jackson, an inspector of schools. On 1937, she obtained a BA with honours and on 1957 a MA at Durham University. She worked as Grammar school English teacher from 1938 to 1973. On 5 April 1956, she married Jacob "Jack" Lazarus.

She published Children's fiction as Marguerite J. Gascoigne, and later gothic romance novels as Anna Gilbert. Marguerite died at 88, on 24 September 2004 in North Yorkshire, England.

Book List in Order: 14 titles



  • A haunting story of love and mystery in Victorian England. In the late nineteenth century in the lush atmosphere of the English countryside at Saxelby Mill, the seafaring Captain Adam Westerdale had brought his frail bride and where a few years la...



  • AN ANGELIC FACE AND A CLOUD OF GOLDEN HAIR Ella's helpless fragility and haunting beauty took silent possession of everything Cassie loved. Her disturbing sensibility filled every corner of the quiet English village where their lives were inex...



  • The calm of Hester Mallow's life seemed indestructible and brought little or no surprise. Then her sister Louise returned home after seven years. Nervous, beautiful, magnetic, she was a presence to contend with, and Hester watched as her beloved Juli...



  • DEADLY SECRETS Something strange was going on in the sunlit village of Asherby Cross...something that had transformed Maggie Ossian's golden, caregree friend Lilian into a haunted creature of midnight secrets and dark, seething passions. No o...



  • Florence, a lovely, kind hearted young lady who gives up her position as teacher to the poor children of her town to marry a well-to-do young gentleman and move up in the world to a house he has inherited. Far from anyone they know, Florence tries he...



  • Hannah Medlar was raised by her strictly pious brother Joseph and his wife, Zilla whom she idolized. On April day in 1852 after having taken a wrong turn in their pony trap, she and Zilla arrived by chance at a village wedding where Zilla recognized ...



  • When Kate Borrow takes a teacher's job in a Pennine village, she is unaware that she's accepting a date with destiny. Lovely Kate could hear a girl's haunting voice singing in the darkness that first eerie night she arrived in Kinning, the English vi...



  • Comes a Dark Stranger... Charming, picturesque Emberside Grange -- where Isobel Penrose shared an idyllic life with her widowed father and Lydia, her vivacious older cousin. Then one day a tall, dark stranger invaded their lives. He called himsel...



  • The selfless love Tessa felt for her grandmother was a natural, ingrained thing; her pride in her family tradition an unquestioned duty, an essential part of being a Jasmyn. Why, then, as she grew up, did she occasionally yearn to be free of Barmote ...






  • The two beautiful Findon sisters were blessed with all the advantages of a prosperous provincial background in the early years of the twentieth century, the last golden age in English history. Their niece, Elinor, was enthralled as a child by her fat...



  • Years after discovering an unknown young girl abandoned in a small English village, two idealistic young lovers, Daniel and Esther, who are planning to marry find themselves confronted by a mysterious woman seeking to destroy their relationship. E...



  • Strange things have been brewing in the village of Ashlaw in 1923: the once-prosperous drapers' shop has gone bankrupt and three separate families' lives have each, it seems, been hexed. In a bigger town such news might happen every day, but in tiny,...



  • Following the death of her beloved Aunt Belle, Lorna Kent abandons her life in the city to move to a small country town. Once an ancient valley settlement, Canterlow's surrounding countryside remains, even in 1919, virtually untouched by the passage ...



  • Comes a dark stranger... Isobel Penrose shared an idyllic life at charming, picturesque Emberside Grange with her widowed father and Lydia, her vivacious older cousin. Then one day a tall, dark stranger invaded their lives. He called himself Simeon G...


Award-Winning Books by Anna Gilbert

The Look of Innocence
1976 RoNA -- Romantic Novel of the Year


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Anna Gilbert has published 14 books.

Anna Gilbert does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Leave Taking, was published in August 2011.

The first book by Anna Gilbert, Images of Rose, was published in March 1974.

No. Anna Gilbert does not write books in series.