When her professional qualifications proved unusable in the Canadian labour market, Beverley decided to develop her early interest in creative writing. In 1976, Beverley moved to Canada, where her scientist husband was invited to do post-doctoral research at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She stayed in this profession until 1976, working first in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, and then in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire. Career Īfter graduation, she quickly attained a position as a youth employment officer. On 24 June 1971, she married Ken Beverley, whom she met at Keele. The broad-based learning of Keele's foundation year and the availability of archived Regency-period newspapers were useful resources to enable her to develop her fiction writing. She read history and American studies at Keele University in Staffordshire from 1966 to 1970, where she earned a degree in English history. At 16, she wrote her first romance, with a medieval setting, completed in instalments in an exercise book.
Īt age 11, she went to an all-girls boarding school, Layton Hill Convent, Blackpool. Mary Josephine Dunn was born 22 September 1947 in Lancashire, England. They have been translated into several languages, and she has received multiple awards.īiography Early life and education Her works are regarded as well researched, filled with historical details, and peopled by communities of interlinked characters, stretching the boundaries of the historical romantic fiction genre. Mary Josephine Beverley (née Dunn 22 September 1947 – ) was a prolific English-Canadian writer of historical and contemporary romance novels from 1988 to 2016. Jo Beverley at the Romance Writers of America Literacy signing, 22 July 2015, New York, NY
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