
Elizabeth Houghton Blanchet was born on 1 March 1913 in Lachine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was one of the five chindren of Muriel Wylie Liffiton, also a writer, and Geoffrey Orme Banchet, a banker. She studied nursing, and she met J. Gilzean in Bermuda, where he was stationed, and they married. In 1946, the family moved to England. The marriage ended in divorce, and later she remarried with J. Parry. She worked as nurse and freelance journalist, before worked as novelist.
Elizabeth wrote under three penames: Elizabeth Gilzean, Elizabeth Houghton and Mary Hunton. Houghton was her middle name and Hunton, was their paternal grandmother's maiden name.
Elizabeth passed away on 12 October 1995 in England.
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Because of something in the past, Nurse Jinny's father disapproved of her associating with the new R.S.O. And, for the same reason, the new R.S.O. disapproved of her father. Where did her first loyalties lie?...
After an unhappy patch in her life, Jill Barnett was looking forward to taking up her old life as ward sister at St. William's Hospital -- and disappointed when everything was spoiled by the jealousy of the staff nurse who had wanted her job. ...
Ever since the new surgeon, Mark Castle, had there had been trouble for Staff Nurse Fiona. Glamorous , spiteful, house surgeon, Aurora Kane, did nothing to ease matters. Staff Nurse Fiona Graham is disappointed when Mark Castle is appointed new Su...
~~~ first published 1965 by Mills & Boon as "Simon Dane, Doctor of Research" It was a receptionist's muddle that sent Julie Garth to the wrong interview at the Halliday Institute of International Research, so that instead of the thea...
Karen's work as a nurse -- the chance to be herself -- made up for having to play second fiddle at home to her glamorous half-sister Celia. And she had found a good friend in Dr. Simon Guthrie. Then Simon met Celia!...
~~~ first published 1962 by Mills & Boon The "surgeon for tonight" was David Ritchie, dedicated to his job -- a man who found little time for play and less for women. Could he become "human" in time to save Jan from making a marria...
Elizabeth Graham had a difficult task in succeeding a paragon of a predecessor as Matron of St. Genevieve's Hospital. She hoped her new-found love for the surgeon William Gregory would help her to surmount her difficulties -- but found that the r...
Sara Lloyd was a brilliant doctor, but an unfortunate mishap had badly jolted her confidence and made her feel that her career was ruined. She felt she had to get away from everything, and try for the time being to forget she had ever been a doctor. ...
When Sonia took a hospital post in the lovely Tryolean mountains she was not merely trying to recapture the enchantment of the holiday she had spent there. She wanted a chance to feel she was really being of use, to show her possessive parents -- and...
~~~ first published 1959 by Mills & Boon as "A Sister in the Backwoods" Could this new land promise her love? Accustomed to a big London hospital, Sheila found the tiny island hospital on the Pacific coast of Canada rather strange at fi...