Josephine Edgar

(Mary Mussi)

(1907 - 1991)

aka Mary Howard

Mary Edgar was born on 27 December 1907 in London, England, UK. She was educated privately. In 1934, she married Rudolph F. Mussi, they had one son and one daughter. She was a past chairwoman of Society of Women Writers and Journalists. She started writing contemporary romance novels as Mary Howard in 1930, later she used the penname of Josephine Edgar to sign her gothic historical romances. She was the recipient of the Romantic Novelists' Association award in 1960, 1979, 1980, and Elinor Glyn award in 1961. She passed away on 02 March 1991.

Genres: Romance, Historical Romance

Novels

   Windier Skies (1930) (as by Mary Howard)
   Dark Morality (1932) (as by Mary Howard)
   Partners for Playtime (1938) (as by Mary Howard)
   It Was Romance (1939) (as by Mary Howard)
   Strangers in Love (1939) (as by Mary Howard)
   Far Blue Horizons (1940) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Untamed Heart (1940) (as by Mary Howard)
   Devil In My Heart (1941) (as by Mary Howard)
   To-morrow's Hero (1941) (as by Mary Howard)
   Uncharted Romance (1941) (as by Mary Howard)
   Reef of Dreams (1942) (as by Mary Howard)
   Gay Is Life (1943) (as by Mary Howard)
   Have Courage, My Heart (1943) (as by Mary Howard)
   Anna Heritage (1944) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Wise Forget (1944) (as by Mary Howard)
   Family Orchestra (1945) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Man from Singapore (1946) (as by Mary Howard)
   Weave Me Some Wings (1947) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Clouded Moon (1948) (as by Mary Howard)
   Strange Paths (1948) (as by Mary Howard)
   First Star (1949) (as by Mary Howard)
   Star-crossed (1949) (as by Mary Howard)
   There Will I Follow (1949) (as by Mary Howard)
   Bow to the Storm (1950) (as by Mary Howard)
   It Happened Seventy-five Years Ago (1950) (as by Mary Howard)
   Sixpence in Her Shoe (1950) (as by Mary Howard)
   Two Loves Have I (1950) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Young Lady (1950) (as by Mary Howard)
   Promise of Delight (1952) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Gate Leads Nowhere (1953) (as by Mary Howard)
   Fool's Haven (1954) (as by Mary Howard)
   Sew a Fine Seam (1954) (as by Mary Howard)
     aka The Cottager's Daughter
   Before I Kissed (1955) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Grafton Girls (1956) (as by Mary Howard)
   A Lady Fell in Love (1956) (as by Mary Howard)
   Shadows in the Sun (1957) (as by Mary Howard)
   Man of Stone (1958) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Intruder (1959) (as by Mary Howard)
   The House of Lies (1960) (as by Mary Howard)
   More Than Friendship (1960) (as by Mary Howard)
   Surgeon's Dilemma (1961) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Pretenders (1962) (as by Mary Howard)
   My Sister Sophie (1964)
   The Big Man (1965) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Dark Tower (1966)
   The Interloper (1967) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Repeating Pattern (1967) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Bachelor Girls (1968) (as by Mary Howard)
   Time of Dreaming (1968)
   Dancer's Daughter (1969)
   The Crystal Villa (1970) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Pleasure Seekers (1970) (as by Mary Howard)
     aka The Charmed Circle
   Home to My Country (1971) (as by Mary Howard)
   A Right Grand Girl (1972) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Devil's Innocents (1972)
   Stranger at the Gate (1973)
   Soldiers and Lovers (1973) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Lady of Wildersley (1975)
   The Young Ones (1975) (as by Mary Howard)
   Duchess (1976) (as by Mary Howard)
   The Spanish Summer (1977) (as by Mary Howard)
   Countess (1978)
   Mr. Rodriguez (1979) (as by Mary Howard)
   Margaret Normanby (1982)
   Success Story (1984) (as by Mary Howard)
   For Love Or Money (1984) (as by Mary Howard)
   Bright Young Things (1986)
   A Dark and Alien Rose (1991)