Janet Tanner (International) assertion Janet Tanner i(A27971 works by)
Also writes as: Jade Shannon
Born: Established: Somerset,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Janet Tanner is a British author, some of whose novels have been set in Australia: Flowers in the Valley, 1981, A Scent of Mimosa, 1983 (both as Jade Shannon), and Women and War (1987). Many of her books, published by Century in England and St Martins Press in New York, are multi-generational sagas.

Although she has not lived in Australia for an extended time, Tanner visited the country to research Women and War, starting in Darwin to check all the newspaper files and other documents in the library about the bombing of the city during the Second World War. She then went to Sydney, visiting places she wanted to use in the book, notably 'Darlo', Woolloomooloo and Kings Cross. Her research continued at the War Memorial in Canberra, Melbourne, Ballarat and Bendigo.

Tanner's name is included (erroneously as Janet Turner) in Debra Adelaide Bibliography of Australian Women's Literature 1795-1990 (1991) and Margaret C. Murphy Women Writers and Australia: A Bibliography of Fiction, 19th Century to 1987 (1988).

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